[mythtv-users] 'Don't Record' recording rules keep appearing

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On 11/21/2013 5:01 PM, Joseph Fry wrote:
>>>>>> I think my 4 year old has pressed a button that somehow has created
>>>>>> 'Don't Record' recording rules for all upcoming recordings.  I have a
>>>>>> combined FE/BE setup at home.  This has happened before and I can undo
>>>>>> everything by going into MythWeb and setting each rule to record normally
>>>>>> one by one.  It's very time consuming.  Is there a quick way to undo the
>>>>>> damage?  I'm being outwitted by a 4 year old!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks, Paul
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm intrigued to know what key combination would achieve that result?
>>>>> Not sure I could do that without taking as much time as it will for you to
>>>>> undo it....
>>>> Right!  In mythfrontend, there is no way to do a mass "Don't Record."
>>>> He would have had to press SELECT and then "Don't Record" for each
>>>> upcoming show.  The undo is to go to the Recording Rules screen and
>>>> press
>>>> DELETE for each "Don't Record" rule.
>>>
>>> Is there a "never record" option when the system asks to steal the
>>> turner during live tv?  Perhaps he's busy watching cartoons and mythtv
>>> is asking to use the tuner and he's saying "oh hell no" and telling it
>>> to never record?  I don't know if that's one of the options; I have
>>> had 9 tuners (5 physical, 4 virtual) for years now, so I never see
>>> that dialog box.
>> Not sure what he did but all I know is when I go into MythWeb and look at
>> Recording Schedules every single program for the next 8 days (i'm using EIT)
>> that was due to record is now set to 'Don't Record'.  He definitely isn't
>> sitting there selectively setting this for each upcoming recording.  I only
>> have 2 cards (PVR-150) and I do see the message they Myth is about to steal
>> the card.  Could that be it?
> It seems highly unlikely that this is something your kid did on a
> per-episode basis.  If he made it into the upcoming recordings screen
> and spammed the spacebar, it would do this but most 4 year olds aren't
> gonna spam the same key over and over again.

Possibly he set something down that happened to hold the space bar (or 
some other keys) down and the keyboard repeat took over from there.

-- 
Jim