[mythtv-users] is there a simple recording status light avaliable?
James Armstrong
james at thearmstrongs.org
Wed May 4 18:39:50 UTC 2005
> 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/
You can probably make it simpler by just querying the master backend for
the status. It will do tuner status, disk space free, and we recently
added a patch that will provide the epg guide data status for the
Mythled project we did. That way you won't need new tables (except if
you really want to do your stats) and talk to one location.
- James
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