[mythtv-users] Has anybody a working copy of Mythrecipe?

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/21/2012 10:56 AM, George Galt wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Beppo wrote:
>> back in 2008 Kevin Wambsganz worked on the recipe plugin for MythTV but
>> unfortunately it disappeared before he released his plugin.
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>> In my opinion it may be useful to increase the WAF and the chance to build
>> an other mythbox in the kitchen ;-)
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>> I don't have the skills to build such a plugin from the scratch, so this is
>> just a question from somebody how only help testing...
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> Beppo:
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> At the time, I grabbed a copy of the mythrecipe.  It was on a machine
> that no longer runs mythtv, so I'll have to go hunt around to see if I
> still have a tar ball.  However, my recollection was that it was still
> **VERY** rough and not ready for prime time.  I don't think it would
> increase the WAF much to use it.

And, FWIW, it would have to be completely rewritten to be usable with 
current MythTV.  Since MythRecipe was last working, we have changed to a 
completely different UI engine for MythTV, so there wouldn't be much 
usable code in the old tarball.

IMHO, the easiest--and best--approach to getting a MythRecipe would be 
to write a brand new one from scratch (ideally with developer(s) who 
have used other recipe managers and have learned from their strengths 
and weaknesses).

Then again, you may even be better off just using an external recipe 
manager (which will still require a computer--on which you could also 
install MythTV) and setting up an entry in your Menu Theme to EXEC the 
other program (at which point MythTV will wait and ignore any 
LIRC/keyboard input, so you don't have to worry about key/button presses 
doing bad things in MythTV while using the other application).

Since we don't currently support watching TV while using any plugins (or 
similar), it's not like you would lose any abilities by using an 
external app.  And, in fact, depending on how you configure the display, 
with an external application, you could have MythTV running in a window 
(or on one screen) while the external recipe manager runs in another 
window (or on another screen), so you could actually watch TV while 
using the recipe manager.  The windows could be tiled or overlapping or ...

Mike