I was thinking the same thing as John... Is there a way to add the episode name and maybe even the episode description to the list? <br><br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 15, 2007 4:41 PM, John Veness <<a href="mailto:John.Veness.myth@pelago.org.uk">
John.Veness.myth@pelago.org.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">Andrew Ruthven wrote:
<br>> Gidday,<br>><br>> The other day I was recompiling some kernels during the day on our<br>> MythTV backend, which at the time happened to be recording my wifes<br>> favourite program (Grey's Anatomy, we discovered it part way through the
<br>> season, so the repeats are good). It turns out the compiling caused<br>> some issues with the recording (which reduced the WAF).<br>><br>> So to increase the WAF, I'm making sure this doesn't happen again. I've
<br>> written a script that spits out the MythTV status which is then<br>> displayed in the MOTD.<br>><br>> I've found this is a pretty effective way of letting me know of any<br>> upcoming recordings and what is going to be happening on the system in
<br>> the next little while. It is a whole lot easier than using the status<br>> page on MythWeb.<br>><br>> I thought some of you might be interested. If you are, check out:<br>> <a href="http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html" target="_blank">
http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html</a><br>><br>> Sample output:<br>><br>> MythTV status for localhost<br>> ===========================<br>> Status: Mon Oct 15 2007, 8:41 AM<br>><br>
> Encoders:<br>> cerberus (9) - Idle<br>> cerberus (12) - Idle<br>><br>> Scheduled Recordings:<br>> 2007-10-15 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy<br>> 2007-10-15 18:00:00 - 3 News<br>> 2007-10-15 20:30:00 - Mythbusters
<br>> 2007-10-15 22:00:00 - Flight Of The Conchords<br>> 2007-10-16 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy<br>> 2007-10-16 18:00:00 - 3 News<br>><br>> I run Debian, so there is a .deb. For those not running Debian there is
<br>> a tarball (but the MOTD updating glue is Debian specific at the moment).<br>> For those interested in hacking there is a git repository.<br>><br>> Hopefully I'm not the only one that finds this useful.
<br>><br>> Cheers!<br><br></div></div>I haven't tried your script yet, but it sounds like it (or a modified<br>version of it) might be useful for something I've been meaning to do,<br>which is to generate a text file version of all the upcoming recordings.
<br><br>I've had a couple of outages of my MythTV box recently, and I've<br>becoming so reliant on it that I find it very hard to go back to<br>'normal' TV, i.e. looking in listings magazines and trying to remember
<br>which episodes of a show I have seen and which I haven't.<br><br>I was thinking that if I could get Myth to log (or email me) a list of<br>all upcoming recordings, that would be something I could use to guide my<br>
normal TV watching if necessary.<br><br>I was thinking of a wget on mythweb, but a more nicely formatted text<br>file output would be easier to read.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>John<br><font color="#888888"><br>--<br>John Veness, MythTV user, UK, DVB-T
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