Is there something recording?

[Tre4Bax]

Hi There,

Does anyone know how I would find out if the PVR is actually recording or not at a particular time. I want to write some code that will turn the box to standby in response to the remote, but only if there is nothing currently recording. At the moment the thing just turns off anyway and dumps the recording.....

Many thanks,

Trevor

[pBS]

query the database with "SELECT name FROM scheduled_recording WHERE status = 1 order by start_time limit 1"
which returns actively recording shows...if any returned, it's recording...check next recording time also, to make sure none are about to record in next few mins either..
use "select name, start_time FROM scheduled_recording WHERE status = 0 order by start_time limit 1" for next recording..

[McBainUK]

imilne (author of the System plugin) may be able to supply a code snippet to do this - the plugin warns you if you try to power of the PC while NextPVR is recording is in progress or is starting soon.

[imilne]

That code relies on the NPVR api though, so it would be useless outside of the app.

I personally never bother putting my htpc into standby manually. We got into the habit years ago of always exiting live TV when 'done' and just let the 5 minute idle timeout that's set in Windows take care of putting it into sleep mode. No horrible 'oh crap' moments doing it that way.

Iain

[mvallevand]

I personally never bother putting my htpc into standby manually. We got into the habit years ago of always exiting live TV when 'done' and just let the 5 minute idle timeout that's set in Windows take care of putting it into sleep mode. No horrible 'oh crap' moments doing it that way.

I agree that is the most reliable way for me. I am my own worst enemy and I think in the last year my only two missed recordings was because I shut down the recording service blindly to apply a patch or new version.

Martin

[martint123]

Likewise, I just let the system handle it. Although, come to think of it, I have a couple of scheduled daily events at 1700 and 2200 to set the sleep/hibernate times to 30 and 5 minutes respectively. Probably time to get rid of them now.

[Tre4Bax]

Many thanks,

I have been using LMRemote to just blast the telly turning off the monitor the waiting for it to sleep, this seems to work but the blaster element of LMRemote is unreliable so often just stops working. This leaves my wife feeling the TV is still on. My plan was to write something that could be called by LMRemote but that would only switch off if there was nothing recording. Actually looking into the future would be good too to prevent it going to sleep when it really needs to wake up in three minutes....

Theoretically windows should do this for me but for some reason the remote just overrides everything and the box goes straight to standby.

Many thanks for your helps and tips.

[Tre4Bax]

Is there some way that the power off functionality of the system app could be invoked through the keyboard? If I could get LM Remote to call that to standby/hibernate then that would be perfect. A dialog coming up to warn would really help.