[mythtv-users] Controlling TV via Myth

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Monday 20 February 2006 14:21, yan seiner wrote:
> >Not sure about calling a script before going into live tv but ISTR
> > that all the frontend screens are editable so you might be able to
> > edit the option to call an external script that sets it then calls
> > the watch live tv option.
>
> I looked in the menus (the xml files) and all I found was some
> references to what I assumed were internal tags....
>
> What parses the xml menus?  And where would I include the call to my
> app?

To call an external script/application, use the EXEC command in the 
<action> tag, like so:

<action>EXEC /command/to/execute --maybe-with-options</action>

HTH,
JAC