[mythtv-users] Way to check the status of a tuner from command line

[jedi]

On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:03:04PM -0400, Eric A. Boney wrote:
> So since I haven't been able to figure out the cause of my tuner going "off 
> line" on my slave server I was hoping for a quicker fix for now. Seems that 
> once this tuner goes unconnected, the only way to fix it is to reboot the 
> server entirely. Even restarting the backend or stopping and then starting it 
> again still won't bring the tuner back to a connected status on the master 
> backend.
> 
> So is there anyway I can test the status of this tuner from the command line 
> so that I can setup a simple script to to reboot the system if the tuner is in 

   Pull the status page from the master backend server using wget and parse
the results. It will be something like -- http://lars:6544/