This is a script that was designed to monitor lirc for IR input and then perform actions when certain button combinations are performed. The types of events it can monitor for include:

• Button sequences (ex: Play-Play-Enter)
• Held button duration (ex: Play button held 1.5 seconds)
• Repeat count (ex: Play button held for 5 repeats)

The responses to events can depend on the current state of mythfrontend. The script has the ability to connect to the Network Control Port (NCP), issue commands, and return responses. The script has built in functionality for quickly checking the frontend's location ('query location'), as well as special handling for a few special cases (playing anything, a recorded program, live tv, a dvd, or a video), however it can handle any command supported by the NCP.

The response taken to an event can include:

• Sending a command to the NCP (ex: a key or a jumppoint)
• Executing an external script (via perl's system command)
• Any arbitrary perl code

This script can be used for many purposes. A few examples demonstrated in the script

• Rebooting/halting the machine via secret key combination not likely to be hit on accident
• A better guide button, which displays the appropriate guide depending on what you are doing, and also closes the guide if pressed again
• Sending multiple commands at a time to load or unload the commercial cutlist with a single keypress
• Skipping to the beginning/end of the recording if a skip button is held. This is somewhat similar to tivo's skip to end, but better since you can't easily do it by accident
• Emulating the functionality of the tivo button on a tivo remote (which alternates between jumping to main menu and the now playing list)

Version 2 has been improved to make it easier to configure, as well as to write custom plugins and easily share them with other users. The current plugins included are:

• general - all the basic actions supported by irwatch
• tivo_emulation - custom handling to emulate the tivo button
• aquos - allows irwatch to interface with the aquoseserver script to control a Sharp Aquos TV via serial port

More details about this script can be found in the IRWatch version 2 blog entry

Current Version - 2.03

Download IR Watch
RFLibs modules also required

This script connects to a Sharp Aquos TV via it's built in serial port (only available on some models). It then opens a TCP socket that you can connect to in order to query the status of the TV or change settings (power, volume, input, etc).

You can use this script to issue one-off commands to the TV. For instance, to power off the TV when your computer shuts down, just make sure the aquosserver script is running and then issue the following command in your shutdown script (make sure it's before you shutdown aquosserver):

      echo -e 'POWER_OFF\nEXIT' | nc localhost 4684

Other ideas would be to set the volume to a low setting when first turning on the TV (so you aren't shockingly reminded in the morning that you actually had the volume up quite loud last night). It can also be used by the irwatch script's aquos plugin in order to do things like tie the power and volume button to the TV power and volume features.

More details about this script can be found in the AquosServer blog entry

Current Version - 1.01

Download AquosServer script
RFLibs modules also required

These are series of perl modules that are used by several of my other scripts to perform a variety of functions.

Not much to do with these except make sure they are in the right location. On my system, I put the RFLibs folder into /usr/local/scripts/ and then make sure each perl script the uses them points to the right path by setting an include in the first line:
      #!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/local/scripts

Not much more to say.

Current Release - 20110807 (Aug 7, 2011)

Download latest version of RFLibs

This script uses your Ceton InfiniTV 4 card's cablecard to identify all channels offered by your cable provider. It then systematically queries each channel to determine which channels are available to you, and to determin the CCI (Copyright Control Information) status of each channel.

When the scan is complete, the script also gives you the option to upload your results to an online website. This will allow other users to see what the status of the CCI flags are in your area for your cable provider.

The online database of all uploaded results can be found here


Download the Ceton CCI Scanner

This script makes it easier for you to manage updates to the myth channel configuration for you HD Homerun tuner. This script scans your HD Homerun for all available channels, looks at your myth channel configuration, and attempts to figure out how to update the channels automatically.

The current version of this script has limited functionality. I hope to address some of these limitations in a future update.

• It only works for QAM 256 tuning (not OTA or other types of broadcast).
• It only updates channels that already exist in myth. It will not create new channels or delete existing channels. Thus this script currently is mostly useful for when your cable company shifts around the channel layout (moving a channel from one frequency to another).
• It doesn't handle when your cable company changes the channel lineup. If they remove an old channel and put a new one it its place, this script won't realize it's a different channel. Or if they move a channel from ch 20 to ch 40, it won't realize that one channel moved. It will instead tell you that channel 20 needs to be deleted manually and channel 40 needs to be added manually

Because this script messes with your myth channel configuration, I'd highly recommend you make a backup of your database before running it. I wouldn't want to you ruin your channel config if I didn't anticipate something different about your configuration and my script blows up.


Download the Myth HDHomerun Scanner

This patch will allow you to setup your Ceton InfiniTV 4 cablecard tuner to work in mythtv. This will allow you to record some encrypted channels in MythTV (how many channels, if any, will depend on your local cable provider's configuration).

Please see my blog entry Ceton InifiniTV 4 in MythTV 0.24 - Part 2 for important information and configuration instructions.

Mythbuntu 11.04 users...please see Ceton InifiniTV 4 in MythTV 0.24 - Part 3 for instructions (but you should still read Part 2 for the disclaimers and important information).

Current version - 009 (2/23/2012) [changelog]
Download the Ceton InfiniTV 4 support patch for 0.24-fixes
Download the Ceton InfiniTV 4 support patch for Mythbuntu 11.04


Download the channel mapping utility (for cablecard configuration only, not needed for ver 008 and newer patch)

Download the QAM channel mapping utility (for QAM configuration only)

In the conversion to MythUI, some functionality of the old UI code was lost in the rewrite (not that I'm blaming anyone... there's only so much one can do in a limited time). One of the nice features that was lost was the ability to give tree controls columns with different widths.

This patch allows you to customize a buttontree control in 2 ways. First, you can add a columnwidths property to set the widths of individual columns. Second, you can individually layout and style each column of tree.

This patch can be applied to 0.24-fixes.

Download the ButtonTree Columns patch

In Myth 0.21, when in the Watch Recordings screen, pressing the right arrow key while a program was highlighted would display the menu where you can chose a number of option for the selected recording (transcode, delete, stop recording, etc). In 0.22, one of the side effects of allowing horizontally laid out themes is that this functionality no longer works, and from what I've read there are no intentions to mimic the old behavior. I'm not quite interested in reconfiguring my remote button mappings to deal with the new setup, so I've written a patch to add that behavior back.

This time, the behavior is themable, so a vertically laid out theme can have it triggered by the right arrow, and a horizontal theme can have it's choice of triggering with either an up or down arrow. In fact, the design is quite a bit more customizable, so that you can have any ButtonList trigger any event in response to a different event. You simply add one additional tag to your buttontree. Here's an example:

<triggerevent context="Global" action="INFO">RIGHT</triggerevent>

This says that anytime the buttonlist is responding to a "RIGHT" action event, instead of the normal processing it's going to lookup the key assigned to the "Global" action named "INFO" and trigger a keypress event for that action. If you set context and/or action to an invalid value, then the assigned keypress will disappear into thin air without generating a corresponding event. This would be useful if you don't want the LEFT key in the left buttonlist to wrap focus around to the right buttonlist. So, for example:

<triggerevent context="" action="">LEFT</triggerevent>

This patch can be applied to 0.24-fixes. I have not currently submitted this patch for inclusion in mythtv.

Download the ButtonList TriggerEvent patch
Download an example theme patch