[mythtv-users] Assorted stuff
Mercury Morris
mercury.morris at gmail.com
Sun May 1 15:23:16 UTC 2005
On 5/1/05, Gayle <gayle at anothercrap.com> wrote:
> Three quick things...
>
> 1. 0.18 + DVB
>
> For some reason I lost the UK DVB-T EPG data after updating to 0.18, no matter
> what I did I got no guide data (compile flags definitely correct). I updated
> to CVS yesterday and all is now well again. Commercial flagging is now
> working like a charm as well (in 0.17 it never really worked for me). I also
> had issues with the program guide hanging on me if I tried to move away from
> the initial starting point but this is also now resolved. All in all, many
> thanks for an excellent release that solved some other minor niggles I had as
> well.
>
> 2. Deleting files in MythMusic
>
> This may sound dumb, but how in Earth do you delete a file in MythMusic? I
> have a few CDs with empty tracks a few seconds long that I'd like to remove.
>
> 3. Internet connection
>
> Some Myth plugin features require an internet connection to work properly, I'm
> on dialup and hate on demand dialling (I don't care if something wants to
> update itself at 3am, I do NOT want my modem dialling while I try to sleep!)
> so I threw together a quick script to toggle the dialup internet connection
> when I press a remote button. It's only a few lines and is included below in
> case it's of use to someone else.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gayle
>
> #!/bin/bash
> # Toggle internet connection from within MythTV and show info on OSD.
>
> # For a list of available interfaces use cinternet -I
> INTERNET_INTERFACE=""
>
> # PROVIDER should be the name of the ISP as configured in KInternet
> PROVIDER=""
>
> if cinternet --interface-name=$INTERNET_INTERFACE --status|grep -q
> "disconnected"
> then
> mythtvosd --bcastaddr=127.0.0.1 --template=alert
> --alert_text="Establishing internet connection."
> cinternet --interface-name=$INTERNET_INTERFACE --provider-name=$PROVIDER
> --start
> else
> mythtvosd --bcastaddr=127.0.0.1 --template=alert --alert_text="Closing
> internet connection."
> cinternet --interface-name=$INTERNET_INTERFACE --stop
> fi
Please pardon me for seeming to be so dense, but what is
"cinternet"
A Google and a search of these archives didn't turn up anything
that seemed relevant.
Thanks.
--
MM
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