[mythtv-users] notify but don't record

[Mark Wedel]

  I'm sure this is probably fairly easy with the right mysql voodoo, but for me 
to dig into the right tables, etc, and figure this would be time consuming, and 
someone might know (or at least point me) mostly in the right direction.

Background:  I have OTA and slingtv.  I had actually hacked something to record 
slingtv via mythtv (hdmi -> component -> hdpvr, + scripts to change the roku). 
This worked pretty good.  But slingtv has added their DVR feature now, so might 
as well use that.

  However, the DVR feature is not nearly as capable as mythtv, and more 
annoying, sometimes recordings I've set up disappear.

  What I'm doing right now is setting up those recordings in mythtv, and 
periodically looking at the upcoming recordings, making sure that the slingtv is 
set to record them, and then manually tell mythtv to skip that recording.

  What I would like to do is query the SQL database for the recordings coming up 
soon (next 3 days), and mark those as skipped for the slingtv.  I'd run this out 
of a cron job and have it send me e-mail - then I just double check that slingtv 
is doing what I want to do.

  So if someone can point me in the right direction on this, I'd appreciate it.