How to set up the MythTV alarm clock

1. Setting up MythTV to allow this to work

Enable the remote control interface (Utilities/Setup > Setup >
  General > Enable Network Remote Control) and be sure that the
  remote control port is set to 6546
(see http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Telnet_socket for more)

2. Install the MythTV Python bindings

These are available in 0.21, apparently. In Ubuntu, install 
  libmyth-python.
  
3. Install this theme

Copy these files to /usr/share/mythtv/themes/alarm/

4. Install pygame

In Ubuntu, this is python-pygame.

5. Restart mythfrontend

6. Set "alarm" as your menu theme

Do this in Utilities/Setup > Setup > Appearance > Menu theme.

7. Restart mythfrontend again

You should now have an "Alarm clock" option on the front screen of
  your MythTV. Selecting it gives two options: Set an alarm and 
  Cancel an alarm. Cancel an alarm doesn't work yet. Hitting Set
  an alarm should pop up a box to set an alarm time; use left, 
  right, up, and down to set the time of the alarm, and then OK
  to save it.
  
The three alarm types are "Next only", "Every day", "Mon - Fri". 
  Next only means "tomorrow morning", but if you set it at 1am for
  7am it'll work properly.
  
The alarm, currently, turns on live TV on your Myth box. If you want
  it to do something else, edit play-alarm.

Note that this will overwrite your front screen's menu; if you'd
customised it, you'll need to add

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2008-11-10