[mythtv-users] MythVideo question / feature request (?)

[Phil Bridges]

On Feb 6, 2008 12:04 PM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
>
> * On Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 11:30:17AM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
> > On Feb 6, 2008 10:30 AM, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
> > > > That would probably work - I'm trying to picture in my mind how it
> > > > would work, though.  It'd be really nice if the telnet interface
> > >
> > >  Hmmmmm
> > >
> > >  Status notifications to the telnet interface might be useful....
> > >
> >
> > I'd really like *lots* of status dumped to the telnet port, but you
> > gotta start somwehere :)
>
> Any modifications done to the Network Control (aka telnet) interface
> need be on a pull basis.  The Network Control interface should never
> send the client anything it didn't ask for (ie, the response to a command).
>
> Clients connected to the Network Control port are by default dumb in
> nature.  It's not meant to be an event driven interface.

Couldn't it send out the info when you select a video to play?  IIRC,
the interface sends out recording info when you navigate to one page
via the telnet interface, doesn't it?