Setting for "blackout period"?

[grooves12]

Is there any way to set up a blackout period for Sage, where you can prevent it from doing any recording during that time??

I have a bunch of setup scripts that run daily, and I would like Sage to not record anything during this time period.

Is there any way to do this?

[up2ng]

http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsKill.html

Use this to kill the process as part of your script and add a line at the end to start SageTV.

[GKusnick]

If you value the contents of your Wiz.bin, I would not recommend killing the process as part of your daily routine. A better solution would be to send a WM_QUIT message to allow the app to close its files and shut itself down in an orderly fashion. There's a SendMessage.exe utility in your SageTV installation folder that you can use for this purpose.

If you're running SageTVService.exe, use net stop and net start to stop and restart the service from your script.

[salsbst]

I took the question to mean that the poster wanted SageTV to keep running but not to record anything. I would welcome such a feature, myself.

[grooves12]

Originally Posted by salsbst

I took the question to mean that the poster wanted SageTV to keep running but not to record anything. I would welcome such a feature, myself.

That is exactly what I would like... Just a setting that says Don't record between XXXX-XXXX hours.

[grooves12]

And if I DID want to shut down and restart Sage... what would be the proper syntax for sendmessage to shut down the app?

[GKusnick]

The SendMessage utility is documented in Appendix J of the manual, but it looks like that documentation is a bit out of date. I found that the following command line works for closing SageTV V6:

SendMessage -c SunAwtFrame -n "SageTV" -m 16 0 0

For SageTVClient, replace "SageTV" with "SageTV Client" (to match the client's window title).

[Opus4]

As per a PM discussion with Greg to see what the problem was, the SendMessage docs should be correct.

Also, note that while the above SendMessage syntax works for the WM_CLOSE command (message #16), it will not work for messages to control SageTV via command event numbers. For those to work, the window class (SageApp or SageClientApp) & name (SageWin) need to be as shown in Appendix J and on p. 190 of the v6 SageTV manual.

- Andy

[GKusnick]

Andy's right; use the window class and title from the manual. I must have had a finger spasm when I tried it the first time, because it works fine for me now.

Sorry for the confusion.