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

[David Brodbeck]

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.

Gonna have to look into that.  I have a Perl script that does 
wakeup/shutdown for my secondary backend, based on whether it's needed 
to resolve conflicts.  Currently I'm parsing the output from mythbackend 
--printsched, but this sounds like it would be cleaner and easier to 
maintain.