[mythtv-users] Is there any way to determine what a frontend is doing?

[Raymond Wagner]

On 12/4/2010 16:27, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Tom Flair<tom at graniteskies.net>  wrote:
>> As the subject reads, is there any way of telling what a remote frontend is
>> doing?   ie, sitting idle,  playing back a video from mythvideo (with title
>> or filename), playing back a recording (title or filename would be useful),
>> idling after launching an external program (ie mame, mplayer, xine, hulu,
>> etc)
> Assuming you have the network control interface enabled on the frontend:
>
> $ nc 192.168.0.208 6546
> MythFrontend Network Control
> Type 'help' for usage information
> ---------------------------------
> # query location
> mainmenu
> # quit
>

There.  Fixed that for you.