[mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

[David George]

On 1/27/2005 3:20 PM, Dan Wilga wrote:

> At 12:41 PM -0500 1/27/05, James Armstrong wrote:
>
>> I will clean up the schematics and get something posted. If enough 
>> people want it we can have a few boards made.
>
> Please also include the software you are using. I think that one of 
> the things that is currently lacking is an efficient (non-polling) way 
> of doing this by directly modifying Myth's code.

I thought about adding a thread to the backend to do this, but figured 
it would be better to have a separate processes that asks the backend 
for the info.  First by doing it this way we can have multiple LED boxes 
(one for each frontend).  Also I wanted to have the ability for the box 
to detect if the backend is ever unavailable.  This hasn't happened to 
me yet, but I tend to run Myth from CVS everywhere so better safe than 
sorry.  Also, I figured the couple of small changes to the backend to 
support a couple of additional queries (low disk space, low guide data) 
would make it into CVS a lot easier than another thread with major 
functionality.

--
David

P.S.  In case anyone was wondering.  James did the hardware and I did 
the software.