[mythtv-users] Question about getting Myth Backend status

[Brian Walter]

Paul Harrison wrote:
> Brian Walter wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> What version of Myth are you using? MythShutdown from svn trunk will
> check recording status.
>
> Paul H.
>   
Actually, I think I found an easier solution for a quick and dirty:

select count(*) from inuseprograms  -> if nonzero something is recording 
or in queue
select count(*) from jobqueue where status = 4 -> if nonzero, something 
being flagged

I'm not using transcode at the moment..so..this, I think, should handle 
the problem till ivtv gets fixed.

Thanks!
Brian