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== Making MythTV LiveTv recordings invisible to LinuxMCE ==

For those who watch a lot of live TV, you'll notice that LinuxMCE adds all of those LiveTV recordings to the LinuxMCE DB. Not only does this fill up the database, but it makes browsing media quite ugly. There is an easy way to solve this.

== Locating and editing the SaveMythRecording.sh file ==

The file is stored in
 /usr/pluto/bin

The first thing to do is make the directory that will hold the recordings:

 mkdir /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_0


Then make a backup of the SaveMythRecording.sh script:

 cp /usr/pluto/bin/SaveMythRecording.sh /usr/pluto/bin/SaveMythRecording.sh.bak


Now edit SaveMythRecording.sh with your favorite program:

 #!/bin/bash
 
 dir=/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_0
 
 mv $3/$4 $dir/$4
 touch $3/$4
 chown mythtv:public $3/$4
 
 echo "$(date) $0-$1-$2-$dir-$4" >> /var/log/pluto/donerecording.log
 /usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend dcerouter 0 -1001 2 69 29 "$1" 57 "$2" 35 "$dir/$4"''

== Prevent UpdateMedia from scanning LiveTV recordings ==

Create a file, /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1.folderlock, to prevent scanning:

 touch /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1.folderlock

== Conclusion ==

Now when browsing Media, LiveTv recordings will not show in the Video list. Your recordings will never be expired or deleted by MythTv, and MythTv will continue functioning without errors. All LiveTv recordings and scheduled recordings can still be expired and deleted through the MythWeb interface without impacting LinuxMCE.