[mythtv-users] Automatically pausing playback

[Chris Gentle]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Scott <scott at frak.ms> wrote:

> Use the telnet interface of MythTV to pause playback when your script
> receives a caller id packet.
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet_socket
>
> You'll have to script something in Python telnetlib or Perl Net::Telnet to
> handle the communication, but that shouldn't be to hard?
>

Perfect!  Thanks.  I didn't even know there was a telnet interface.  Wonder
how I missed that after all these years.  Scripting shouldn't be a problem.

-- 
Chris
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