[mythtv-users] Alerts

[Nick Rout]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 12:01 PM, DISAFAN <disafan at aim.com> wrote:
> 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.

you could try xosd, which is a general X package to flash stuff up on
the screen.

http://www.ignavus.net/software.html

Packaged for ubuntu at least.