[mythtv-users] Myth2Go - Reqeust for help

[Yan Seiner]

Well, since my memorial day weekend got rained out, I've been working on 
my backlog of things to do - I set up another Myth station at the house, 
and started work on a Myth2Go set of scripts.

Here's the concept:

I have a small carputer that I use for Myth when on the road.  We load 
it up with movies and let the kids watch movies.

The problem is that this small box also gets used in the house as a Myth 
box when connected to the network.  So right now it detects if it is on 
the home network, and if so it uses the house backend.  If it's on the 
road, it uses its own MySQL database and backend.

We put movies on it manually and then run setup to get it to put those 
movies into the database.  The problem is that we don't have any icons, 
and any imdb data doesn't get transferred.

What I really want to do is automate the process of moving movies and 
recordings from the home backend to the mobile backend.

This is the process so far:

1.  Pull all available movies and recordings from the home database.
2.  Build a dialog-like interface for deciding what movies and 
recordings to take.
3.  Insert the data for those movies and recordings into the carputer 
database.
4.  rsync those movies and recordings to the carputer.

(Since the carputer never records anything on its own, I don't have to 
worry about syncing the two databases, I just yank-and-stuff.)

I could really use some help with 1.  I've looked at the database, and I 
*think* I've identified what needs to be pulled, but I am not sure how 
recordings work at all and what I need to pull from the database.  Also, 
any suggestions for a scripting language with good MySQL support would 
be welcome.  I've used PHP a bit, but only in CGI apps, so I'm not sure 
how useful it would be here....  And I am useless at Perl.

Thanks,

--Yan