[mythtv-users] epgdiff

[Ian Cameron]

I've done what's probably more or less the same thing, but in Perl.  The
reason for using Perl is that I already had some scripts using
XML::RSS::SimpleGen and that's how I wanted the output delivered.  The Perl
script is run via cron once a day.  It generates a diff between program and
oldprogram tables, writes that to a local RSS file which is watched via my
TT-RSS installation, then that gets delivered along with other RSS feeds in
a daily digest email sent by TT-RSS (well *most* days, sometimes it doesn't
send the email and despite meaning to look into why that happens, I've
never got around to it yet).

When I see something that looks interesting, I just click the link for an
entry in the digest email and that takes me to the listing page, where I
can select "Find and record one showing of this title" or "Record at any
time on any channel" for the show in MythWeb.

It works well for me, maybe too well, as my MythTV installation only
records from ~20 UK FTA channels and I still end up recording and watching
more TV than I probably should!

I wrote the Perl script because I heard on this list that the MythTV front
end has the same functionality built into it (I don't use it though) and
thought it would be a neat feature to have on my system.

Ian
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