[mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?

[Christopher David Petersen]

On 5/3/05, Ryan Kremser <ryan.kremser at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> I"m looking for a simple recording status light. I know a lot of work
> has gone into this before but if i remember correctly it ended up as a
> led display with a bunch of features. Was a simple bit of software
> ever written to toggle an external light? I'm thinking scroll lock or
> something but i'm not sure. Any suggestions or if someone could
> point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.
> -Ryan
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The recently formed PoORMUG (Portland, OR MythTV Users Group) just had a 
project to show the status of multiple backend on up to 8 LEDs on multiple 
front-ends. It's called MythLEDd and I'm the primary developer. Basically, 
the software runs as root on all your backends. It can monitor free disk 
space, EPG data remaining, tuner status (in-use or free), and job status 
(mythtranscode, mythcommflag, etc). The program gets its settings from 4 new 
tables (which will soon be controlled via MythWeb), and stores the results 
of it's analysis in another new table (the led_status table). The program 
can also be run on a front-end, where it reads the status information from 
the status table and controls the 8 LEDs connected to the parallel port. The 
hardware costs about $10 at RadioShack, and the software is free.
 I currently have MythLEDd running on my combined backend/frontend 
controlling 3 LEDs. Red means tuner one is recording, green means the 
machine is either transcoding or commercial flagging, blinking yellow means 
low disk space, and solid yellow means low EPG data. My wife loves it! She 
doesn't like the idea of auto-expiration, but doesn't ever want to miss a 
recording due to low disk space. So whenever the yellow blinks, she manually 
deletes some shows. I like knowing that I shouldn't shutdown the machine 
during a recording. Actually, I've made a shutdown ACPI script that prevents 
me from shutting down during a recording, but having a light is still cool 
:)
 Here's the link: http://poormug.bitbucket.com/
 -- 
Christopher David Petersen
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