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

[Michael T. Dean]

On 09/05/2008 04:15 PM, jedi wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:39:46PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
>   
>> On 09/05/2008 02:47 PM, 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.
>>>       
>> Says, I'm sure, someone who never ran the script with --help and/or 
>> never took the time to figure out how to run it so that it does what he 
>>     
>
>       Well, that's kind of the point.      
>   

Sorry.  I guess you should try 
myth_upcoming_recordings_in_a_spoon_on_a_silver_platter.pl .  ;)

>> wants.  Of course, I'm assuming this /only/ because the script does 
>> exactly what its name claims (and not because I'm whining because I'm 
>> offended).  The script returns information about upcoming recordings--so 
>> I don't see where disappointment comes into play.
>>     
>       More than anything else, the perl errors errors are a bit unnerving.

Since I'm getting no errors, I'm going to need error messages to debug, 
please.

Mike