It should not be possible to shut down XBMC while recording (vdr-addon)

[hzulla]

System: x86 PC with an MCE remote control, OpenELEC 4.2.1 with vdr-addon and imon-mce installed.

To reproduce:

Set a TV timer or go to "Live TV" and start a recording.
While vdr is still recording TV, touch the power button of the remote control.

What happens: OpenELEC turns off, cutting off vdr in the middle of the recording.

Why this is a problem: While a user is watching a movie file with XBMC, it's possible that unaware to the user a vdr timer will start recording TV in the background. If the user switches off OE after watching the movie file, the vdr timer's recording will be broken.

What I expected: OpenELEC shows a warning and does not shutdown immediately on a single press of the power button. Something like e.g.

Shutdown canceled:
Still recording Live TV 'Star Trek TNG Episode 23'.
Press [Power] twice now to force shutdown.

[chewitt]

I'm closing the ticket because the intelligence to prevent this needs to be internal to Kodi itself where you have visibility of remote keypresses and knowledge of what plugins are being actively used (any maybe what those plugins are doing). From the OS layer underneath Kodi none of this is programatically visible so it's not something that OpenELEC can prevent. You need to make the feature request to Kodi devs in the Kodi forums.