[mythtv-users] Enhancement idea: Warning in OSD when diskis g etting full

[Justin Hunt]

I have to say I aggree fully, I often go out of town leaving my mythbox, and
If I dont watch mythweb religiously, the backend runs out of hd space and
things explode.  It'd be real nice if the backend considered the average
usage/hour and calculated an estimate to determine if I was going to run out
of space in the next 14 days (length of listings).

Cheers!
Justin

On 3/20/06, Dawson, Guy <Guy.Dawson at eu.sony.com> wrote:
>
> Just to add my two pence worth...
>
> Would there be a way of predicting disk space exhaustion.  The system
> knows
> what you've asked it to record, should be able to estimate the amount of
> space required. Obviously it could not easily go beyond the available
> listing (although some shows are pretty uniform in their broadcast
> patterns), but it might be useful if one was going to be away from the
> machine for some time (holidays etc).
>
> I mention this as it has happened to us!
>
> Guy Dawson
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Enhancement idea: Warning in OSD when diskis
> getting full
>
>
> I believe the best way to do it is using cron, because it would be easy
> to use any running monitor (mrtg, manually check, nagios, etc...) and
> display on frontends.
>
> On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 22:53 +1000, David Whyte wrote:
> > I was thinking today that a possible enhancement to mythTV would be an
> > OSD message that intermittently pops up on all frontends during
> > playback to indicate that the recording disk space is getting low.
> >
> > I use a reliable technique to monitor my disk usage (as I always
> > manage to fill the drives, even when I add more space) but sometimes I
> > do forget to check my MRTG charts to check there is still space.
> >
> > This OSD message method would be particularly useful to indicate to
> > the non-techie users in my family that they should go and remove their
> > old recordings.
> >
> > I imagine a cron job could currently be employed to do this using
> > mythnotify (those messages go to all frontends that are playing back,
> > right??), however, a proper implementation with a configurable setting
> > would be very sweet (IMHO of course).
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> > Whytey - who can't code C++ for anything!
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