Comments on: How to Integrate Skype and MythTV

By: Alessio Signorini

Alessio Signorini — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:13:21 +0000

Hello Pete, that is possible if somebody puts together a MythTV plugin using SkypeKit. Unfortunately I do not have the time to do it.

By: Pete Shew

Pete Shew — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:05:33 +0000

What I would like to do is have Skype running in the background and pop up when a call comes in. MythTV should then automatically pause (perhaps with detection of loss of focus) until the Skype window is closed.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 08:28:08 +0000

Here’s a script I wrote to toggle between skype and mythfrontend+mythwelcome. If you use irexec to execute this script from a lirc key press (google irexec) you can probably adjust it to just launch mythfrontend if skype is not running.

#!/bin/bash

SERVICE=’mythwelcome’

echo “appchk is $APPCHK ”
if ps ax | grep -v grep | grep $SERVICE > /dev/null
then
# ok mythwelcome is running so kill it and mythnfrontend
echo “Killing myth and launching skype”
killall mythfrontend
sleep 2
killall mythwelcome
sleep 2
su mythtv -c “pulseaudio -k”
sleep 1
su mythtv -c “DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/skype &”
else
#MYTHWELCOME NOT RUNNING so kill skype and launch mythwelcome which will launch mythfrontend
echo “Killing skype and launching myth”
killall skype
su mythtv -c “DISPLAY=:0.0 /usr/bin/mythwelcome &”

exit

By: Antonio Gulli

Antonio Gulli — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 19:33:54 +0000

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/26/samsung_skype/

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:30:22 +0000

Thanks for that. So easy to do. I guess I’ll use the same method for other programs too.
Any joy with LIRC yet ?