[mythtv-users] Playing TV when frontend starts

Tom Lichti tom at redpepperracing.com
Tue Jan 2 20:10:57 UTC 2007


Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 	I'd like the frontend to play TV right when started
> instead of showing the main menu. Is there any way to do this?

The only way I can think of is to have a script that starts 
mythfrontend, then connects to the telnet interface and issues the 'jump 
livetv' command. Wouldn't be hard to do, I do the opposite in my script 
(before killing mythfrontend, make sure that it exits live tv).

Tom



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