[mythtv-users] how "should" the scheduler work..

[jedi]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 01:00:07PM -0400, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 12:41:15PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > Better approach, use the one that ships with your Myth (i.e. the -fixes 
> > one) as Kevin suggested, and use:
> > 
> > myth_upcoming_recordings.pl --recordings -1 \
> >                             --no_show_scheduled \
> >                             --heading 'Recording Conflicts' \
> >                             --no_conflicts_message 'No Conflicts' \
> >                             --plain_text
> > 
> > And, look at --help output for --text_format if you want customized 
> > formatting.  No need for html2text, and you really need to specify 
> > --recordings as -1, in case you have more than 5 conflicts.
> 
> I'm on .21, not -fixes, and don't have a file named that on the drive,
> alas.

    I had a copy of that in trunk. I tried to run it and the results
were... disappointing. There is a little project/app called mythtv-status
that works much in the same way and uses perl (too).