[mythtv-users] LCDProc and Mythtv

[Rob Willett]

Dan,

Know the feeling well. I finished my thesis 20 years ago and keep saying each
year that I'll update it. 20 years on and nothing has changed.

All the best,

Rob.

Quoting Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com>:

> Hey Rob,
>   I had visions around sep or oct of 2003 to add a thread to the mfd 
> that thor is creating to basicly act as a proxy to all the information.  
> The backend and frontend would talk to mfd, which would set a priority 
> on all the information and what not; and figure out what should be 
> displayed.  But, then I started college and decided to buy a bigger 
> house.  So all that kind of got put on hold and I just don't have the 
> drive right now to work on it.  Not with summer starting.
> 
> I may get to looking at the code for mythmusic sometime this week, but I 
> don't know yet.  Depends on how much it rains this week.
> 
> -dan
> 
> Rob Willett wrote:
> 
> >Dan,
> >
> >Thanks for the update. That's the sort of information I want it to display.
> The
> >other bit would be when it's recording a program. Perhaps it simply says
> >"Recording <tv program>". I think that it's useful to have thissort of
> >information as well as the standard clock. Since it's linked to ntp it's
> the
> >most reliable clock I have in the house! I think weather reports are a bit
> too
> >much to ask, though then again in England all it needs say is "Rain".
> >
> >What's the status on getting the stuff fixed to work the latest mythmusic?
> >
> >All the best,
> >
> >rob.
> >
> >Quoting Dan Morphis <dan at milkcarton.com>:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>I use the LCD output option.  Works great.  It doesn't do much in live 
> >>tv mode, I don't see much of a need to.  Its most useful in mythmusic.  
> >>Displays what song its on, how much of the song has been played, etc.  
> >>It used to work when you were adding items to the playlist; but that 
> >>broke when Isaac did a big update to mythmusic.  I haven't made the time 
> >>yet to fix that.
> >>
> >>It also shows the menus when navigating around.
> >>
> >>-dan
> >>
> >>Rob Willett wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>Michael,
> >>>
> >>>I've since discovered that MythTV does have an LCDProc compilation
> option.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>No
> >>    
> >>
> >>>idea what it does yet. Does your work interface with that?
> >>>
> >>>Rob.
> >>>
> >>>Quoting Michael Gargiullo <gargiullo at comcast.net>:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I'm in the process of writing a perl daemon that will monitor things
> >>>>like that.  I haven't gotten everything worked out, but when I do, I'll
> >>>>post it.  I hope to have it finished this weekend, but can't promise it.
> >>>>
> >>>>-Mike
> >>>>
> >>>>On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 08:10, Rob Willett wrote:
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Has anybody managed to get LCDproc working with mythtv, e.g. displaying
> >>>>>information from MythTV onto the LCD. e.g. which music is playing,
> which
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>station
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>MythTV is on, when it's recording etc etc. It's easy to display system
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>stuff
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>such as disk usage, top but I want to send more information to the
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>display.
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>If no one has done it, any ideas where to get current runtime
> information
> >>>>>     
> >>>>>
> >>>>>          
> >>>>>
> >>>>from
> >>>>   
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>>>mythtv. Does it write information out to /proc or anything like that?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thanks,
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Rob.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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