[mythtv-users] Myth and Python

[Raymond Wagner]

On 11/18/2010 21:51, Her Him wrote:
> However while it does work to toggle between 5.1 and stereo it doesn't 
> take effect until after I go back through 'General' setup and click 
> all the way through finish.  So for some reason even though the audio 
> is set properly it doesn't honor that its changed until going back 
> through the menu.

Altered version...

> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> from MythTV import MythBE
>
> be = MythBE()
> db = be.db
> hostname = db.gethostname()
>
> print 'Host: %s Max Channels: 
> %s'%(hostname,mythtv.db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels'])
>
> if db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels']==u'2':
>     db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels']=u'6'
> elif db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels']==u'6':
>     db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels']=u'2'
>
> print 'Host: %s Max Channels: 
> %s'%(hostname,mythtv.db.settings[hostname]['MaxChannels'])
>
> be.backendCommand('MESSAGE[]:[]CLEAR_SETTINGS_CACHE')

That last command issues a CLEAR event, which then gets pushed through 
to all connected frontends and backends, informing the frontend to pull 
new settings from the database as needed.
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