[mythtv-users] Remotely monitor Backend is running

[Barry Martin]

Hi Mike!

> > /That seems to be the issue: this/my computer does not have any Myth 
> on it (other than notes, etc., /
> > /and that isn’t what we’re looking for). So the (python) script should 
> be looking at the Backend for /
> > /services.api./
> > 
> I think you're a little confused here (or maybe I am).
>
> You need to have a python module on the host that is making the request in order to format it into
> something that the api on the backend understands.
>
> Normally, you'd get that automatically when you install a frontend on that host.
>
> I though the whole point of this was that the /frontend/ needed to know if the backend was up? If
> so, that's where this code should be running. Why are you running it on a non-mythtv host at all?

Hi Mike!


I can see your viewpoint. Here if the Frontend doesn’t find the Backend 
it (the FE) displays a screen indicating it is having problems and is 
asking for a button to be clicked to rescan, do manually, etc. By that 
time the Backend has sometimes been off for hours, missing recordings.


What I would like to do is have a warning message pop up on my computer, 
which does not have MythTV on it, if something is wrong with the 
Backend. Something like xmessage as it puts a window up; e-mail is a 
so-so option as I’m not always on e-mail.


The ‘nc -z 192.168.4.3 6544’ command in my initial post works but only 
if the Backend is completely off-line. Had an issue where MythTV 
partially hung: I was getting part of the webpage. It was not recording 
nor communicating with the Frontends. Big annoyance was I was literally 
sitting with my back to the Backend much of the day, just I didn’t know 
there was a problem because no one was watching recorded TV until that 
night.


Hope that clarifies things.


Barry










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