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face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2"><font color="#660066">So, my
question is this: is there a way to "test" Mythtv from <br>
> a cron job to determine if there are active recordings in process?
I <br>
> thought I might be able to query the database? But, in looking at <br>
> mythtv's tables, it is not obvious to me what table/field I would <br>
> issue the test against? Or, maybe there is already a "hook"
built-in <br>
> to mythtv that I could use? Any suggestions are welcome. Thanks. <br>
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You can use mythshutdown which will return a status:<br>
<br>
mythshutdown --check <br>
<br>
or <br>
<br>
mythshutdown --status<br>
<br>
some options for mythshutdown are <br>
<br>
-c/--check (check shutdown possible returns 0 ok to shutdown<br>
1 reset idle check)<br>
-s/--status (returns a code indicating the current status)<br>
<br>
0 - Idle<br>
1 - Transcoding<br>
2 - Commercial Flagging<br>
4 - Grabbing EPG data<br>
8 - Not used<br>
16 - Locked<br>
32 - Not used<br>
64 - In a daily wakeup/shutdown period<br>
128 - Less than 15 minutes to next wakeup period<br>
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