Pause recordings during vacation

Martin Schlatter

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I programmed Kodi to automatically record certain TV series. Additionally, I have some series in the schedule that are currently disabled. Next week I will be on vacation for 4 weeks and would like to pause the recordings, so that no recording is done while I'm away. If I disable every single schedule (about 10), it will mix up already disabled (inactive) schedules and currently active schedules.
How can I do that? Is there some kind of switch to stop future recording?

DeltaMikeCharlie

I’m sorry, I’m not trying to be rude, but your question could be interpreted 3 ways:

Are you already away from home on vacation and wanting to get into your home system remotely to temporarily suspend your recordings?

Are you at home trying to temporarily suspend your recordings via Kodi?

Are you at home trying to temporarily suspend your recordings via TVHeadEnd?

Jonas Lang

Record, paused and disabled. Three different states and a vacation thrown in for good measure.

I assume you’re trying to access your system remotely while you’re away and change your disabled recordings to record in your schedule. Would that be the correct interpretation.

DaveH

Just stop TVH whilst you're on vacation?

Then it won't record anything and it won't change any settings.

DaveH

Just stop TVH whilst you're on vacation?

Then it won't record anything and it won't change any settings.

DaveH

Sorry for the double post. Redmine told me there was an internal error, repeatedly, but apparently posted my comment anyway :(

Martin Schlatter

Dave H wrote:
> Just stop TVH whilst you're on vacation?

> Then it won't record anything and it won't change any settings.

Ok this seems to be the only solution. Should there be a power outage, the machine starts again and TVH is started automatically. But ok, I can live with that.

DaveH

Depending what system you're running it on and how it was installed, you may be able to stop it using e.g. systemd. So 'stop' and 'disable' it and then it won't come back if there's a power cut.

chewitt

If you "disable" a service it's prevented from restarting automatically within the current session but on cold (re)boot it will be enabled again so the service will auto-start. If you run "systemctl mask tvheadend" after stop/disable you'll prevent it from being auto-enabled.

Martin Schlatter

Of course, you are right, I forgot that I can stop and disable the service. Thanks.

DaveH

Christian Hewitt wrote:

> If you "disable" a service it's prevented from restarting automatically within the current session but on cold (re)boot it will be enabled again so the service will auto-start. If you run "systemctl mask tvheadend" after stop/disable you'll prevent it from being auto-enabled.

I don't think that's correct.

"Disable a service. If it is running, it will continue to run until it is stopped manually. It will not start at the next system restart, but can be started manually, or as a dependency of another service."