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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi Charles!<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">Crontab
29,59 * * * * /home/username/resetMyth.sh
Script
#!/bin/bash
SHOWS=$(curl -H "Accept: application/json" <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mythtv:6544/Dvr/GetUpcomingList" moz-do-not-send="true">http://mythtv:6544/Dvr/GetUpcomingList</a> 2> /dev/null | jq .ProgramList.Count | cut -d '"' -f 2)
if [ $SHOWS -eq 0 ]; then
echo "Restarting Myth Backend"
sudo systemctl restart mythtv-backend
fi</pre>
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<pre class="western"><font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2">And a thank you to you too! The half-hour check by the cron job to so an automatic reset will be handy – I’m not always at the computer! (Is that blasphemous?! <g>) </font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Your curl command (at least when I isolate it and test at Terminal) results in just a number, which for a cookbook scripter like me will probably be a lot easier to use.</span></font></font>
<font face="moz-fixed"><font style="font-size: 9pt" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Barry </span></font></font></pre>
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