[mythtv] Help Writing MythTV Plugin

[Evan Klinger]

Good morning. I did not receive any reply to my MythTV plugin question, 
so I am resending it in hopes that someone who knows more about the 
internals of MythTV will be able to lend a helping hand.

I am writing a MythUpdate module to periodically check for newer 
versions of MythTV and then download and install them. However, I cannot 
figure out how to make my plugin run in the background, as it does not 
have any UI. I've tried making my plugin inherit QThread and running it 
that way, I've tried putting the plugin to sleep() for the idle times 
between updates but alas nothing seems to work - my plugin always 
remains in the front of other plugins, or at least I cannot figure out 
how to bring back the main Myth menu. I'm currently running the plugin 
through mythfrontend by using "mythfrontend mythupdate." Any help would 
be greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Evan Klinger