[mythtv-users] How to properly remove "recorded" shows from MythTV db remotely from a Windows PC?

[Alistair Grant]

On 28 February 2016 at 20:06, Jason Bilbrey <jason at bilbrey.me> wrote:
> I have scripts in place that automatically copy TV shows off my of MythBuntu
> box so that I can watch them later. When I copy the show off, the script
> flags the show as watched so that MythTV knows it can automatically clean it
> up and never records it again.
>
> Sometimes though I find a bad recording and I want to be able to remove that
> show from the MythTV database so that the next time it sees that show it
> will record it again.
>
> I found the Perl scripts that can be ran on the MythBuntu box itself, but I
> want to do this remotely from my windows PC instead, using maybe some SQL
> commands to remove entries from the database so that MythTV will re-record
> that show.
>
> Has anyone done this before and if so, can you point me in the right
> direction or to some code someone has already created?

Do you really need to run the scripts on your Windows PC, or just
trigger the script?

How about using ssh to initiate running the scripts on your Mythbuntu
box from your Windows PC?

  ssh mythbuntu.box /path/to/script.pl with args...


Cheers,
Alistair