[mythtv-users] MythTV Status in your MOTD

[MythTV User]

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> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org 
> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Ryan Pisani
> Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 5:58 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Status in your MOTD
> 
> > Andrew Ruthven wrote:
> >> Gidday,
> >>
> >> The other day I was recompiling some kernels during the day on our 
> >> MythTV backend, which at the time happened to be recording 
> my wifes 
> >> favourite program (Grey's Anatomy, we discovered it part 
> way through 
> >> the season, so the repeats are good).  It turns out the compiling 
> >> caused some issues with the recording (which reduced the WAF).
> >>
> >> So to increase the WAF, I'm making sure this doesn't 
> happen again.  
> >> I've written a script that spits out the MythTV status 
> which is then 
> >> displayed in the MOTD.
> >>
> >> I've found this is a pretty effective way of letting me 
> know of any 
> >> upcoming recordings and what is going to be happening on 
> the system 
> >> in the next little while.  It is a whole lot easier than using the 
> >> status page on MythWeb.
> >>
> >> I thought some of you might be interested. If you are, check out:
> >>   http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html
> >>
> >> Sample output:
> >>
> >> MythTV status for localhost
> >> ===========================
> >> Status: Mon Oct 15 2007, 8:41 AM
> >>
> >> Encoders:
> >> cerberus (9) - Idle
> >> cerberus (12) - Idle
> >>
> >> Scheduled Recordings:
> >> 2007-10-15 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy
> >> 2007-10-15 18:00:00 - 3 News
> >> 2007-10-15 20:30:00 - Mythbusters
> >> 2007-10-15 22:00:00 - Flight Of The Conchords
> >> 2007-10-16 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy
> >> 2007-10-16 18:00:00 - 3 News
> >>
> >> I run Debian, so there is a .deb.  For those not running 
> Debian there 
> >> is a tarball (but the MOTD updating glue is Debian 
> specific at the moment).
> >> For those interested in hacking there is a git repository.
> >>
> >> Hopefully I'm not the only one that finds this useful.
> >>
> >> Cheers!
> >
> > I haven't tried your script yet, but it sounds like it (or 
> a modified 
> > version of it) might be useful for something I've been 
> meaning to do, 
> > which is to generate a text file version of all the 
> upcoming recordings.
> >
> > I've had a couple of outages of my MythTV box recently, and I've 
> > becoming so reliant on it that I find it very hard to go back to 
> > 'normal' TV, i.e. looking in listings magazines and trying 
> to remember 
> > which episodes of a show I have seen and which I haven't.
> >
> > I was thinking that if I could get Myth to log (or email 
> me) a list of 
> > all upcoming recordings, that would be something I could 
> use to guide 
> > my normal TV watching if necessary.
> 
> You could just cron a dump of upcoming recordings as listed 
> by mythbackend:
> 
> mythbackend --printsched | mail you at yourmail.com
> 
> 
> Ryan
> 
> > I was thinking of a wget on mythweb, but a more nicely 
> formatted text 
> > file output would be easier to read.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > John
> >
> > --
> > John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
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I usually use http://yourmythserver:6544 to get the status. My server is off
for the moment so I don't know how it looks like if I use 'lynx -dump
http://yourmythserver:6544' from the console.