[mythtv-users] scheduler and sports

[Neil Cronin]

It doesn't look like you can extend a recording with 0.18 (at least,
not that I can see in the UI.  perhaps there is an API for this?). 
But you don't need to extend the recording per se, you just need to
start a new one, right?  I'll look at the code to see what updating
the database while a recording is happening would do.

psuedo code for a baseball game:

27,57 * * * * /usr/bin/perl /home/mythtv/check-for-extended-sports-broadcast.pl

if (currently_recording_sports())
 teams = determine_teams()
 score = get_current_score_from_espn.com(teams)
 inning = get_current_inning_from_espn.com(teams)
 if (inning<>'F' || inning<9 || is_tied(score) &&
nothing_scheduled_for_next_timeslot())
 schedule_new_program() /* or extend_current_recording(), if possible */
 }
}

I guess football would be harder, but if
nothing_scheduled_for_next_timeslot() returns true, you could err on
the side of recording.

-neil

On 10/13/05, Kevin Kuphal <kuphal at dls.net> wrote:
> kanetse at gmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > On 10/13/05, *Neil Cronin* <mythtv at rackle.com
> > <mailto:mythtv at rackle.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     Is anyone open to helping out with the espn.com <http://espn.com>
> >     scraping idea?  Or am
> >     I on my own?
> >
> >     It doesn't seem too hard to do, but hard to test and potentially
> >     pretty fragile.
> >
> >
> > Can MythTV even be told to "extend a recording" once it has started?
> > I know there's a protocol that you can use to talk to the backend over
> > a TCP socket... but does MythTV itself support changing the end time
> > or duration of a recording in progress?
>
> The SVN version of MythTV (destined to be 0.19) can do this from the
> frontend.
>
> Kevin
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