[mythtv-users] status indicator for gnome panel?

R. G. Newbury newbury at mandamus.org
Thu Apr 6 15:57:13 UTC 2006


Paul Andreassen wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2006 02:07 pm, Steven C. Liu wrote:
>> I am wondering if there is a status indicator that I can add to my gnome
>> panel so I will know if a recording is in progress (and which show), or
>> to tell when (and which show) is the next recording?
>>
>> I also run a PVR on my WinXP box using Snapstream Beyond TV, and I have
>> an icon on my task/toolbar that tells me what's going and what will happen.
> 
> I can tell when MythTV is recording by the flashing led for the hard drive.
> 
> There is:
> mythbackend --printsched
> and
> http://localhost:6544/
> which show whats going on but no applet. 

Amd which suggests that someone with some coding smarts could use the 
telnet interface and parse the output, to push to...an applet or even 
through mythlcd...to a VFD.. Now *that* would be nice...

Geoff


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