[mythtv-users] MythAlarmClock?

Brad DerManouelian myth at dermanouelian.com
Wed Jun 18 23:42:41 UTC 2008


On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Nick Rout wrote:

> I listen to the radio over DVB-S as live tv (although of course there
> is no video stream). Is there a way to get myth to go into Live TV and
> switch to a particular channel at an arbitrary time? Could this be
> done via perl/python script and cron/at perhaps?

Yup. You'll need to write a script that exercises the telnet socket of  
your frontend and make a cron job to execute it at a particular time.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Telnet_socket



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