[mythtv-users] MythTV Status in your MOTD

[Bill Omer]

On Nov 15, 2007 3:23 PM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> Gidday,
>
> The other day I was recompiling some kernels during the day on our
> MythTV backend, which at the time happened to be recording my wifes
> favourite program (Grey's Anatomy, we discovered it part way through the
> season, so the repeats are good).  It turns out the compiling caused
> some issues with the recording (which reduced the WAF).
>
> So to increase the WAF, I'm making sure this doesn't happen again.  I've
> written a script that spits out the MythTV status which is then
> displayed in the MOTD.
>
> I've found this is a pretty effective way of letting me know of any
> upcoming recordings and what is going to be happening on the system in
> the next little while.  It is a whole lot easier than using the status
> page on MythWeb.
>
> I thought some of you might be interested. If you are, check out:
>   http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html
>
> Sample output:
>
> MythTV status for localhost
> ===========================
> Status: Mon Oct 15 2007, 8:41 AM
>
> Encoders:
> cerberus (9) - Idle
> cerberus (12) - Idle
>
> Scheduled Recordings:
> 2007-10-15 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy
> 2007-10-15 18:00:00 - 3 News
> 2007-10-15 20:30:00 - Mythbusters
> 2007-10-15 22:00:00 - Flight Of The Conchords
> 2007-10-16 13:30:00 - Grey's Anatomy
> 2007-10-16 18:00:00 - 3 News
>
> I run Debian, so there is a .deb.  For those not running Debian there is
> a tarball (but the MOTD updating glue is Debian specific at the moment).
> For those interested in hacking there is a git repository.
>
> Hopefully I'm not the only one that finds this useful.
>
> Cheers!
>


Very nice!  I installed it on my mythbuntu backend via apt-get.

One thing though, I had to edit /etc/default/mythtv-status.   The file had:

RUN=true

I had to change that to RUN=yes

But otherwise great job!

-- 
Regards,
Bill Omer