[mythtv-users] Have myth email schedule info

[Brad DerManouelian]

On Oct 8, 2008, at 1:42 PM, larry krasno wrote:

> I am looking for a way to have mythtv send an email that contains  
> program info ( I want to notify  people about an specific program I  
> would like them to see). Googling "mythtv send email" doesn't help.
>
> Ideally I would like to be able to send the email while perusing the  
> schedule information.
>
> Any suggestions, pointers, etc.

Nothing like that currently exists. I've seen scripts that email and/ 
or post upcoming and/or recorded programs to a web page or twitter or  
whatever the cool thing of the moment is. Mythbuntu even comes with a  
script to give you upcoming recordings when you log into your shell  
account.

The only way I can think to get close to what you want (without  
writing a bunch of C++ code) is to create a User Job that emails  
program information so while you're looking through your recorded  
programs you can chose to run a user job that launches a script to  
email the information to a pre-defined person/list of people. You  
could even set the user job to automatically run on select programs so  
as soon as it's recorded, an email goes out that it is there waiting  
for you. I think someone even had it send text messages to their phone  
when something was ready to be watched.

Again, this would only work on programs that have been recorded. There  
is no mechanism to act on programs that are simply scheduled to record.

-Brad