[mythtv-users] Anybody have any alerts set up on failed recordings?

[Andrew Leech]

On 2/03/2012 12:44 PM, Matt Mossholder wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Larry K <lunchtimelarry at gmail.com 
> <mailto:lunchtimelarry at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 7:53 PM, Matt Emmott <memmott at gmail.com
>     <mailto:memmott at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         I have an occasionally-recurring problem where my HDHomeRun
>         Prime, or at least the Charter Tuning Adapter, loses its
>         connection. When this happens, recordings that use the
>         cablecard (pretty much anything that isn't available on QAM)
>         fail. I came home today and had a boatload of failed
>         recordings. When this happens I have to reboot the Tuning
>         Adapter and HDHomeRun before I can tune those channels again.
>
>         I was wondering if anybody had set up any kind of alerting,
>         preferably using email, when recordings fail. I haven't looked
>         into it that deeply yet, perhaps using procmail and the
>         mythbackend.log, or the system events feature that I
>         admittedly haven't looked into very deeply.
>
>         I'm open to any ideas. Thanks!
>
>
>     I just have a simple script I run with cron to scan the log and
>     send me an email.  You can grep for whatever message you care
>     about.  Not very sophisticated, but it mostly works.
>
>     <snip>
>
>
> My script is more HD-PVR-centric, but could probably be adapted to 
> deal with other situations. It is meant to run as a "Recording 
> Finished" System Event.
>
> <snip>
>
>
That script looks great Matt, I've wondered about stuff like this in the 
past but never done anything about it.
One question, when it schedules the program to allow re-record, will 
that trigger the backend to try to restart the recording immediately?

I do occasionally get failed recording starting on my DVB-T cards, and 
they generally just need a immediate restart to get them going.

Come to think of it, I've had a few other instances lately where 
recordings just finish early (as in half way through their scheduled 
time), so I could modify the script to check for that too and try to 
restart recording.

Cheers,
Andrew
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