Displaying the Status of Your MythTV Backend in Conky.

Conky is an application that can display all sorts of information in a window on your desktop. It is typically used to display information about the status of your computer, such as the free disk space and memory usage. It's very expendable and can be used to display the output from bash and other scripts.

Myth Conky Status

Myth Conky Status

Our household uses MythTV to record and watch television. The Myth Conky Status python script can display status information from the MythTV backend including the status of each tuner, the amount of free disk space, information about upcoming recording and recently recorded programs.

Installation and Usage.

Myth Conky Status is a Python script and requires the MythTV python bindings to be installed. In Ubuntu you can do this by: 

  sudo apt-get install \
   libmyth-python

To install copy the mythconkystatus.py script into a convenient directory. You can display the various options available by running: 

  ./myth_conky_status --help

The scheduled, recording and expiring options require that you also specify the number of programs to be displayed.

In my .conkyrc I have: 

  ${color white}${execpi 60 \
    ~/devel/myth_conky_status/myth_conky_status.py \
    --disk-space --tuners --scheduled 5 --recorded 5}

You can download the program from my Github repository.