[mythtvnz] mythtv-status

[Karl -skooobie]

It can go in any of the following locations:

mythtv-status.yml (current directory)
~/mythtv-status.yml
/etc/mythtv-status.yml
/usr/local/etc/mythtv-status.yml
.mythtv-status.yml
~/.mythtv-status.yml
/etc/.mythtv-status.yml
/usr/local/etc/.mythtv-status.yml

Make the file readable with permissions of course.

On a side note I found it easier to make an alias of the command, which
makes launching and adding extra info simple and much faster to execute. To
do this simply edit the ~/.bashrc file or ~/.bash_aliases if you want all
of your aliases in a separate file, then add this line:

alias ms='mythtv-status --noencoder-skip-idle --colour --encoder-details'

You need to restart for bash to know these alias but it will now be
permanent and you can simply enter ms at the prompt. The cool thing with
adding these extra switches, like noencoder-skip-idle and --colour and
--encoder-details is that is looks nicer and provides a nice level of
detail. Here's mine, with my new 'ms' alias...























*kh at kh:~$ msMythTV status for
localhost===========================Status..........: 2016-09-09
02:33:17Total Disk Space: Total space is 465.8 GB, with 137.4 GB used
(29.5%)Encoders:kh (9) - Watching LiveTVkh (10) - Idlekh (11) - Idlekh (12)
- IdleRecording Now:Infomercial (TV ONE, Enc: 9, Chan: 1) Ends:
05:35:00Scheduled Recordings:2016-09-09 19:30:00 - Enc: 9, Chan: 2 - The
Voice Australia (TV2)2016-09-10 13:30:00 - Enc: 9, Chan: 3 - Married At
First Sight USA (TV3)2016-09-10 18:30:00 - Enc: 9, Chan: 10 - David
Attenborough's (PRIME)2016-09-10 19:00:00 - Enc: 11, Chan: 1 - Hyundai
Country Calendar (TV ONE)2016-09-10 19:00:00 - Enc: 9, Chan: 3 - Johnny
English (TV3)*
You can also now add a shortcut on Unity if you use Ubuntu flavour by
adding a *.desktop to /usr/share/Applications and then specifying the
Terminal=True command. But I like just Ctrl-Alt-T and then 'ms'

Cheers, Karl


On 8 September 2016 at 21:57, Austin Green <austin.green at orcon.net.nz>
wrote:

> The --noencoder-skip-idle flag works on mine, but not the
> mythtv-status.yml file - where should that live? Tried it in my home
> directory, no effect. Not obvious from the Perl script (I'm not familiar
> with Perl)
> Austin.
>
> On Thu, 8 Sep 2016 16:58:32 +1200
> Karl -skooobie <skooobie at gmail.com> wrote:
> > ... you can use --noencoder-skip-idle on the command line, or if you
> have a config
> > file called  mythtv-status.yml have a setting like this:
> > encoder_skip_idle: 0
>
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