On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 08:32 -0500, Chris Gentle wrote: > However, I would like to automatically pause the mythtv playback when > the caller id event arrives. Is there a simple way to do that? Hi Chris; >From the shell: echo -e "key p\nexit\n" | netcat your_frontend_hostname 6546 Adjust to the language of your application. Bill Meek