[mythtv-users] How do I disable a tuner

[Eric Sharkey]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:04 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/2011 21:16, Jay Cornell wrote:
>> [] is there a way to easily disable a single tuner -- i have two
>> connected to a combined frontend/backend.  I know that i can go into
>> setup, but i was wondering if i could disable via mythweb or the frontend.//
>
> You can use the backend protocol and lock the tuner, preventing its use,
> however unless there is some very pressing issue preventing you from
> restarting the backend, just go into mythtv-setup, and disconnect the
> source from the input.

To anyone's knowledge, has this been scripted up into something
callable either from the frontend or as a command line script callable
from a button press or other mechanism?

I'd like to be able to temporarily lock the tuner connected to a STB
to use that STB for other purposes (e.g. on-demand content) and then
return it to MythTV control and some later time (perhaps automatically
after some time).

It looks like writing a script for this shouldn't be that hard.  I was
just wondering if someone had already done it or not.

Thanks,

Eric