[mythtv-users] Alerts

[DISAFAN]

I was thinking about alerts to my MythFrontend, and was looking to see 
if there had been any change. MythTVOSD hasn't changed much in a while, 
and will only work when the frontend is actively engaged and is harder 
to control from the backend as opposed to the frontend.

I saw some discussions of a new alert system that would include a 
notification area on the menus and a better methodology. But I haven't 
heard anything about this in a while.

Being able to trigger a visual or possibly even an audio alert of some 
event from the backend to any running frontend, regardless of what it is 
currently doing would create a variety of options, especially if an 
option to scale the video to add a bottom ticker either for the duration 
of the alert or all the time.

For the all the time option, I just think of my father. He watches a 
business channel for the stock ticker. I'd love to offer him a stock 
ticker in the middle of programming he actually wants to watch.

For sporadically, I want to now when things happen, ie transcoding 
completion, long download...anything I can trigger with a script.