[mythtvnz] MythTV Status in your MOTD (and email) - Version 0.7.0

[Nick Rout]

I get a perl error on knoppmyth R5F27:

mythtv at media:~$ mythtv-status

MythTV status for localhost
===========================
Status...........: Wed Jan 30 2008, 11:05 AM
Total Disk Space.: Total space is 375,993 MB, with 367,712 MB used (97.8%)
Next Recording In: 11 Hours, 54 Minutes

Encoders:
media (2) - Idle
media (3) - Idle

Scheduled Recordings:
2008-01-30 23:00:00 - Hayden Shirley (RNZ National)
2008-01-31 11:45:00 - New Tech with Colin Jackson (RNZ National)

Schedule Conflicts:
Unable to access MythTV Perl API.  Try with --verbose to find out why.

--verbose gives no more information.



On Jan 20, 2008 10:42 AM, Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm please to announce version 0.7.0, the new feature is:
>
> - Displaying the shows which are due to auto expire.
>
> This is an optional feature, to enable it add --auto-expire to the
> command line.  By default it shows the next 10 shows which will expire.
> Use --auto-expire-count to change that number.
>
> As usual, find it at:
>   http://www.etc.gen.nz/projects/mythtv/mythtv-status.html
>
> What is mythtv-status?
>
> In October 2007 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!
>
> --
> Andrew Ruthven
> Wellington, New Zealand
> At home: andrew at etc.gen.nz       |  This space intentionally
>                                  |        left blank.
>
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