[mythtv-users] Mythrecommend or TVWish?

Jeff Simpson jeffsimpson at alum.wpi.edu
Sat Apr 8 04:42:16 UTC 2006


On 4/8/06, Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 11:45:59AM -0500, Bret Schuhmacher wrote:
> > Is either of these programs able to do "Tivo-style" recommendations by
> > watching what you record?  I dl'd mythrecommend and ran it, but it
> > doesn't do anything useful when I run it with --get (it errors out,
> > making me think the server URL isn't found:
> > ./mythrecommend.pl --get
> > Uploading data to central server...
> > 0 New program recordings saved successfully.
> > with any docs... I get this when I try to print:
> > ./mythrecommend.pl --print
> > DBD::mysql::st execute failed: Table 'mythconverg.recommend' doesn't
> > exist at ./mythrecommend.pl line 246.
> > Could not execute (SELECT id, title, category FROM recommend)
> >
> > Can TVWish do what I want now (the latest threads I see are from a year
> > ago).
> >

I use TVWish and it's great. It doesn't make suggestions based on what
you record, but it does have a giant list of "good stuff" and will
just record any of them when they come on. I've found a lot of fun
surprises with TVWish.


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