[mythtv-users] Sync mythvideo 0.22 from the command line

Greg Oliver oliver.greg at gmail.com
Tue Jan 19 21:20:14 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:58 AM, Ash Bostock <abostock at gmail.com> wrote:
> With myth 0.22 is there any way to do a mythvideo update via the command
> line?
>
> I've looked at the options in jamu but that doesn't seem to have anything to
> do it.
> I thought I might be able to fire off an http request to simulate clicking
> the "Scan Collection" button in mythweb, but that messes things up as it
> doesn't seem to support storage groups :(
> I used to use the mythtools/sync.pl script but that doesn't know about
> storage groups either.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I do not know it this will work, but I think it  should..  Using a
jump point to mythvideo, and then irexec to mimic the button presses
to scan for changes.  That of course would change anything on the
screen (which might be what you are trying to alleviate?)

-Greg


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