[mythtv-users] Question about getting Myth Backend status

[Brian Walter]

Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 05/17/2007 09:38 AM, Brian Walter wrote:
>   
>> I need to write a program/script that will reboot the backend whenever 
>> it is not 1) recording and 2) nothing is active in the job queue.
>>
>> Is there a module/script/?? that will return this, or, what values from 
>> the DB do I query to find this information out?
>>     
>
> wget 'http://mythhostname:6544/xml'
>
> If it's a "use every once in a while" script.  For regularly shutting 
> down or whatever, check out mythwelcome and mythshutdown.
>
> Mike
>   
Turns out, mythshutdown does not check to see if recording?  Upon 
looking in the source, it only appears to check for spawned processes.  
Is  there a flag that I'm missing to also have it check for if the 
recorder(s) is busy?

Brian