[mythtv-users] Command Line Control

[Jerome Yuzyk]

On Tuesday, April 24, 2012 09:06:39 AM "Ben Butler" 
<ben.butler at west16.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> New here, apologies if this has come up before, the only reference I
> found to command line control of myth was via SSH/VNC GUI to a remote
> system.
> 
> What I would like to be able to do is problematically control Myth from
> scripts / cron jobs that sort of thing and not interact with the GUI
> directly.

The telnet interface can be used for this. I made a CLI for it in Perl and 
do channel changes and music rescans and then made a Perl/TK interface to 
it for a remote control. Check it out from my page.

A little of Jerome's MythTV World: http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca