New MythTV add-on using libcmyth

XBMC 12.0 w/ 1.6.9

Took a while to nail this one down but I have found an issue.

If you are watching livetv on a channel and a recording is about to start the plugin kicks you off the tuner 30 seconds prior to recording. If you start viewing that channel immediately than the recording never actually starts but it also never ends. The process creates a stale "currently recording" program. This stale recording can be viewed through the home menu information as well as mythweb. The only way to clear that stale program is to restart mythtv-backend. If you however wait until the recording begins before restarting livetv playback than a different tuner is allocated and the recording is successful.

This can be reproduced if you tune the same channel immediately after being kicked off but I have not tested this process with any channel other than. My guess is that if you grab any channel that results in taking the first available tuner with the channel for the recorded show associated with it than you can reproduce the issue.

I find it an inconvenience to have to restart livetv when a show begins but I find it far more frustrating to have to find an available time when nothing is recording and the family isn't watching anything to restart my backend. Any fix for this that doesn't require patience on the part of my family is greatly appreciated.

Hi,

Is it possible to run 1.7.11 on 12.2? Im having to go backwards due to the problems with ffmpeg/VAAPI/MPEG-2 but i'd rather not lose the newer features.

Thanks!

(2013-05-18 10:29)flitter2009 Wrote:  Hi,

Is it possible to run 1.7.11 on 12.2? Im having to go backwards due to the problems with ffmpeg/VAAPI/MPEG-2 but i'd rather not lose the newer features.

Thanks!

No

Aubrien, Ive finally gotten around to trying your patches in OE3. The instant recording fix works very well, thanks! I like how the date is included in the title to differentiate between instant recordings and scheduled recordings. Any chance the sub title and description can be included aswell? Eg

Scheduled recording



Instant recording



Unfortunately the timer icon patch doesnt work as intended. After a instant recording is started I see this in the epg:



Thanks for your work.

@teeedubb
I'll have a look at the description and the red dots on EPG throughout the week. I was having some issues with the description previously so I left it as you saw just to get something out there for others to play with. I'm currently adding a third tuner to my setup and it has caused me to have to rearrange my equipment rack a bit due to space so it may be later in the week before I can have a look at it.

In the last screenshot where it is 9:55; are the shows with red dots scheduled to be recorded later? I'm trying to determine if they should be check boxes instead of red dots or if they shouldn't have any markers on them at all. If you can tell me what you should have seen in the last screenshot I can probably get it working. Also, do you have any start early and end late settings in place? ex. start a minute early and end a minute late.