[mythtvnz] MythTV Status in your MOTD (and email) - Version 0.6.1

[Andrew Ruthven]

Hello,

I'm pleased to announce a new version of my little script - 0.6.1 (0.6
was released a couple of days ago, but not announced).

Notable new features:
 * Details on disk space are reported, and individual storage groups[0];
 * If there isn't enough program guide data, a warning is shown;
 * The --email-only-on-conflict option has been extended to mean
   "Only on alert" which now includes both the previous points
   (this means, you'll only be emailled if there is something which
   needs your attention);
 * For each recording (scheduled, current and conflict) so the channel
   name it is related to;
 * We do a little bit of rinsing on the XML data now to remove some
   invalid unicode characters that occasionally appear;
 * Suppress some warnings if the user doesn't have access to MySQL and
   handle some other error conditions in a nicer manner.

If you install the .deb, then the MOTD is updated automatically and the
email will be sent daily if there are alerts (and you've set some
email addresses).

As usual, find it at:
  http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html

What is mythtv-status?

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.

Cheers!

[0] To get the details on the individual storage groups you need to
apply a couple of patches to MythTV.  Please see the FAQ in the tarball
or for Debian type boxes, /usr/share/doc/mythtv-status/FAQ .

-- 
Andrew Ruthven
Wellington, New Zealand
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