[mythtv-users] Current time of day?

Jonathan Tidmore jtidmore at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 13:07:48 EST 2005


You could make a small shell script that calls mythtvosd to display the
current time and map the script to a button on your remote.

mythtvosd --template=alert --alert_text=$(date)

On 12/20/05, David Ellis <david at ellisonline.ca> wrote:
>
> And an LCD panel driven by LCDd.........
>
> David
>
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Joseph A. Caputo
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:43 PM
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Current time of day?
>
> On Tuesday 20 December 2005 12:37, Al Mcintosh wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> >     Either I have yet to find it, or it doesnt' exist, is current time
> > of day displayed anywhere?
>
> Currently, the only place to see the current time is in the OSD while
> watching a recording, in the EPG, or in MythWeather (there may be
> others, not sure).
>
> Someone recently submitted a patch to add a theme element for a clock,
> but I don't recall if it was committed.  Themes would need to be
> updated to include it on various screens, anyway.
>
> -JAC
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