[mythtv-users] There an effort to display MythTV status on a small LCD?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Jun 7, 2011, at 10:48 AM, stuart wrote:

> On 06/07/2011 09:15 AM, Terjesen Jens Peder wrote:
>> 
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> 
>>>> Hi...
>>>> 
>>>> I recently came by a small (about 3") color composite LCD screen and
>>>> wondered if there was an effort similar to the (text) LCD effort to
>>>> display MythTV status on such a device.  Many a time have I just not
>>>> bothered with using MythTV to play back music as I would need to power
>>>> up the TV to get things started.  Having a small screen would make
>>>> this
>>>> easier.  However, starting from scratch like writing programs to
>>>> handle
>>>> everything from TV viewing to Music playing is a large effort (I'm
>>>> thinking).
>>>> 
>>>> -thanks for any help.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> _______________________________________________
>> 
>> Could LCDproc-xosd be what you are looking for?
>> 
>> http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/current-user.html#xosd-howto
>> 
>> I have not tested this myself so not sure how it works.
>> 
>> Jens
> 
> That's a step in the right direction.  Thanks Jens - didn't know such a 
> tool for placing text on the screen already existed.
> 
> I am also looking for an effort where  the content of the small 
> screen/display is generated base on what mythtv was doing.  For 
> instance, if mythtv was playing a recording the recording's meta data 
> along with the small bmp image generated by mythtv would  be great 
> content.  If music was playing something similar along the lines of 
> track title, album title and the album cover would be great. To add to 
> the list, if we were in the music playing mode of mythtv, enough content 
> feed back to ad in the selection of music would be the end all to my 
> searching.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Mythlcdserver

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com