[mythtv-users] how "should" the scheduler work..

[Paul Fine]

jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:00:07PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:41:15PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>>     
>>> Better approach, use the one that ships with your Myth (i.e. the -fixes 
>>> one) as Kevin suggested, and use:
>>>
>>> myth_upcoming_recordings.pl --recordings -1 \
>>>                             --no_show_scheduled \
>>>                             --heading 'Recording Conflicts' \
>>>                             --no_conflicts_message 'No Conflicts' \
>>>                             --plain_text
>>>
>>> And, look at --help output for --text_format if you want customized 
>>> formatting.  No need for html2text, and you really need to specify 
>>> --recordings as -1, in case you have more than 5 conflicts.
>>>       
>> I'm on .21, not -fixes, and don't have a file named that on the drive,
>> alas.
>>     
>
>     I had a copy of that in trunk. I tried to run it and the results
> were... disappointing. There is a little project/app called mythtv-status
> that works much in the same way and uses perl (too).
>
>   
So, does either the mythtv-status or the myth_upcoming_recordings.pl 
give different information than the Upcoming Recordings tab/selection in 
the mythweb interface?