[mythtv-users] using telnet to improve mythtv menus

[Steve Peters - Priority Electronics]

>* On Fri Mar 14, 2008 at 02:56:58PM -0700, Steve Peters - 
>Priority Electronics wrote:
>> When you hit watch recordings it now goes to an xml menu 
>that has 3 options:
>>  
>> watch recordings
>> new recordings
>> tv show archives
>>  
>> The xml file looks like this:
>> ____________________________________________
>> <mythmenu name="MAIN">
>>    <button>
>>       <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
>>       <text>All Recordings</text>
>>       <action>TV_WATCH_RECORDING</action>
>>    </button>
>
>It wouldn't take that much code to modify Myth to allow you to 
>optionally
>specify a Recording Group name in the TV_WATCH_RECORDING 
>action like this:
>
>    <button>
>       <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
>       <text>All Programs</text>
>       <action>TV_WATCH_RECORDING All Programs</action>
>    </button>
>    <button>
>       <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
>       <text>Default RecGroup</text>
>       <action>TV_WATCH_RECORDING Default</action>
>    </button>
>    <button>
>       <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
>       <text>Mom's Stuff</text>
>       <action>TV_WATCH_RECORDING Mom</action>
>    </button>
>
>--
>Chris
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Chris, does that mean that myth can do that already? If so, it didn't work
for me. I'm no coder, but I have been able to do quite a bit in my time by
taking code and making tweaks to it to get it to do what I need it to do.

I've never done any perl coding, just some bash stuff. But I'm willing to
check it out to get this new great feature.

Thanks for the tips, and keep them coming if you guys have any more of them.
-Steve