[mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

[John Kuhn]

any chance of producing some of these for the rest of us?

or at least posting plans on how to build one?

--John

James Armstrong wrote:

> Here is the location for viewing the MythLED box we made.
>
> http://www.thearmstrongs.org/images/mythled.jpg
>
> It uses a standard serial interface to communicate with the monitoring 
> software. The software queries the mythbackend to get the status of 
> the tuners, free drive space, guide data, and voicemail. The MythLED 
> box can be located anywhere. We are running this one at work and it is 
> showing the status of David's Mythbackend at home. The prototype we 
> made is capable of showing the status of 5 tuners. It will 
> automatically determine how many are configured and show GREEN for 
> Idle, RED for Recording, and Off for No Tuner. The System led will 
> flash Red if there is something that needs attention like the hard 
> drive space is low or the guide data is out of date. The Message led 
> will flash Blue if there is a voicemail waiting. There are two Antenna 
> leds that will turn Yellow to indicate which antenna is selected. We 
> did this because we needed to switch between two antennas for HDTV 
> programming. If the mythled software looses communications with the 
> backend it will flash all the leds and also sound a piezo buzzer.
>
> - James
>
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