[mythtv] New feature idea - MythCalendar

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Mon Oct 11 15:37:10 UTC 2004


On Monday 11 October 2004 07:47, Jeppe N. Madsen wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Ciaran wrote:
> >  I've pretty much gained g/f acceptance of the box which is great.
> >  However we're both very poor timekeepers and are forever missing
> >  dinner dates etc :)
> >
> >  My idea is 'MythCalendar' allowing the mythtv box, which is
> >  currently our Media Center (all our music/vids/dvd and tv in
> >  onebox) to function as a visual scheduler for our lives as well
> >  just the TV :)
> >
> >  Now I'm a reasonable developer and am happy to being writing code
> >  to do this, but before I bother I wanted to know if anyone else
> > has begun work on this, or worse still Isaac hates the idea and
> > wants me to stop, right away :) I also wanted other people's
> >  comments/ideas for such a thing.  [or even better somebody's
> >  already done this <g> ]
> >
> >  Any comments/complaints/ideas ?
>
> I think this is a great idea. I've been thinking along some of the
> same lines as well, but haven't had time yet to actually do more.
>
> Things I would like to do:
>
> - Should be able to handle a few people (i.e. a family)
> - An overview should be available showing todays/weeks tasks for a
>   all people
> - Enter & synchronize data with myth/web/outlook/pda.
>
> For me, a ui only available in myth would be useless. I need to
> synchronize to other calendars, perhaps only Outlook which could then
> synchronize to other devices. My initial idea was to see if somebody
> has created a web-enabled calendar with the above features and then
> create a myth ui on top of this.

Would this be a good candidate for a starting point for the Myth UI?:

http://www.nowecor.de/users/stephan/qt/calendar.html?id=1003

-JAC


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