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

[Mike Perkins]

Chris Pinkham 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.
> 
Perhaps what these guys need is something like the syslog interface rather than 
the telnet interface. Hmm, perhaps it would be possible to leverage syslog 
somehow? If not, are there other mechanisms already in the system that can be used?

Mike Perkins