[mythtv-users] MythTV Status in your MOTD (and email) - Version 0.6.2

[Marc]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org [mailto:mythtv-users-
> bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Ruthven
> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2008 9:54 PM
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] MythTV Status in your MOTD (and email) -
> Version 0.6.2
> 
> Hi Marc,
> 
> On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 17:52 -0500, Marc wrote:
> > How do I add this to my MOTD?
> 
> What distro are you running?  How did you install mythtv-status, using
> the .debs or tarball?
> 
> > All I get is "/etc/default/mythtv-status -h niflheim" when I login.
> 
> Is that in your MOTD or are you trying to run /etc/default/mythtv-
> status somewhere?
> 
> I suspect you might want to use /usr/bin/mythtv-status -h niflheim .
> 
> > Also not sure what is happening here but on my backend when I run the
> > file I get no errors.
> > On my frontend I get the message
> > Schedule Conflicts:
> > Unable to access MythTV Perl API.  Try with --verbose to find out
> why.
> >
> > When I run with verbose I get no reason.
> 
> Rats...  I'll send you a patch offlist to try and see if that helps
> with the reason.
> 
> > asgard bin # ./mythtv-status --verbose -h niflheim We have the
> correct
> > protocol version for Total Disk Space We have the correct xml version
> > for Total Disk Space
> [snip]
> 
> Cheers!
> 
> --
> Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
> At home: andrew at etc.gen.nz       |  This space intentionally
>                                  |        left blank.

Andrew,
The patch worked and it made sense. The user I logged in with on the remote
backend/frontend system did not have a mysql.txt file setup which is why it
was unable to connect to the API. Once I logged in as mythuser it worked
fine.

I am using the tarball on a Gentoo system. I modified the mythtv-update-motd
file to use the /etc/motd. However I did not have a motd file to begin with
so nothing happened. I attempted to add the line to the motd manually and I
guess I did it wrong. Your install procedure doesn't work on my machine.
When I run it I get
./mythtv-update-motd: line 3: /etc/default/mythtv-status: No such file or
directory

I copied the file to that location manually and then rerun the setup and get
mythuser at asgard /root/mythtv-status-0.6.2/bin $ ./mythtv-update-motd
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 11: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 12: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 13: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 14: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 15: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 16: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 17: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 18: use: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 21: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 22: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 23: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 24: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 25: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 26: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 27: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 28: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 29: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 30: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 31: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 32: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 33: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 35: my: command not found
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 37: syntax error near unexpected token
`newline'
/etc/default/mythtv-status: line 37: `GetOptions('

If I run /etc/default/mythtv-status myself I get a valid response.
mythuser at asgard /root/mythtv-status-0.6.2/bin $ /etc/default/mythtv-status
-h niflheim

MythTV status for niflheim
==========================
Status...........: Sun Jan 6 2008, 10:37 PM
Total Disk Space.: Total space is 1,085,842 GB, with 756,980 GB used (69.7%)
Next Recording In: 16 Hours, 22 Minutes

Encoders:
asgard (1) - Idle
niflheim (2) - Idle
niflheim (3) - Idle
niflheim (4) - Idle
niflheim (5) - Idle
niflheim (6) - Idle

Scheduled Recordings:
2008-01-07 15:00:00 - Doctor Who (Sci-Fi Channel)


Also, how did you get the text to appear in color on the screenshot you have
on the site? I want to have the % and the tuner status in color.

Marc