[mythtv-users] RFE: new event for the events framework: missed recording

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/13/2010 06:56 AM, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I took a quick scan over the events available in the new (0.23) event
> framework and there was an event that I had hoped to see that I didn't
> and that was a "missed recording".  Most typically this could be a
> recording conflict, but I would think that it could also be triggered
> for a recording failure of any sort.
>
> I.e. I would like to get an e-mail, or send a popup, or who knows what,
> but some kind of notification of a missed recording so that when
> somebody comes to me asking why something didn't record, I have a record
> I can look back on.
>    

How about an e-mail about upcoming conflicts?

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Myth_upcoming_recordings.pl

"To show a plain-text list of conflicts...  Note: This output could be 
e-mailed with a script called from a cron job that uses 
mailx/sendmail/... to send the e-mail."

Mike