I&#39;ve been trying to get something to work but I guess I need some help.<br /><br />Not completely sure that it works, but what I want is to run a script from within MythTv.<br /><br />my button is defined in base.xml and looks like this;<br />-----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br />        &lt;button name=&quot;status&quot;&gt;<br />            &lt;position&gt;40,220&lt;/position&gt;<br />            &lt;statetype name=&quot;buttonstate&quot;&gt;<br />            &lt;state name=&quot;active&quot;&gt;<br />                &lt;imagetype name=&quot;background&quot;&gt;<br />                    &lt;filename&gt;ui/mc-status.png&lt;/filename&gt;<br />                &lt;/imagetype&gt;<br />                &lt;textarea name=&quot;text&quot;&gt;<br />                    &lt;area&gt;0,0,92,55&lt;/area&gt;<br />                    &lt;align&gt;allcenter&lt;/align&gt;<br />                    &lt;font&gt;menu_desc&lt;/font&gt;<br />                    &lt;font state=&quot;selected&quot;&gt;basemedium&lt;/font&gt;<br />                    &lt;font state=&quot;disabled&quot;&gt;basemediumgrey&lt;/font&gt;<br />                &lt;/textarea&gt;<br />            &lt;/state&gt;<br />            &lt;state name=&quot;selected&quot; from=&quot;active&quot; /&gt;<br />            &lt;state name=&quot;disabled&quot; from=&quot;active&quot; /&gt;<br />            &lt;state name=&quot;pushed&quot; from=&quot;active&quot;&gt;<br />                &lt;imagetype name=&quot;background&quot;&gt;<br />                    &lt;area&gt;0,0,92,55&lt;/area&gt;<br />                    &lt;filename&gt;ui/mc-status1.png&lt;/filename&gt;<br />                    &lt;alpha&gt;180&lt;/alpha&gt;<br />                &lt;/imagetype&gt;<br />                &lt;textarea name=&quot;text&quot;&gt;<br />                    &lt;position&gt;8,8&lt;/position&gt;<br />                &lt;/textarea&gt;<br />            &lt;/state&gt;<br />            &lt;/statetype&gt;<br />        &lt;/button&gt; <br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><br />I then call it from menu_ui.xml with a simple &quot;&lt;button name=&quot;TV-Status&quot; from=&quot;status&quot; /&gt;&quot;<br /><br />But where do I use the &quot;&lt;Action&gt;EXEC myscript.py&lt;/Action&gt;&quot;<br /><br />Or can I only use the types and actions listed on the link??<br /><br />Thankful for anyhelp!<br /><br />/Tomas