[mythtv-users] MythLED Picture

[Maverick]

I second that. Firefox myth plugin would be sweet. Can't wait for the
LED box plans! :)

-Kenneth


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:40:39 +1000, David Whyte <david.whyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> A software version of the interface would be just sweet too.
> 
> Imagine a FF plugin that sits on the toolbar, which has imitation
> LED's so I can see the status of my mythbox at work (without going to
> mythweb obviously).
> 
> Would be cool :P  (not as cool as real LED's of course :P)
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:52:25 -0500, David George <david at thegeorges.us> wrote:
> > On 01/27/2005 05:24 PM, Asciimonster wrote:
> >
> > > David George wrote:
> > >
> > >> I thought about adding a thread to the backend to do this, but
> > >> figured it would be better to have a separate processes that asks the
> > >> backend for the info.  First by doing it this way we can have
> > >> multiple LED boxes (one for each frontend).  Also I wanted to have
> > >> the ability for the box to detect if the backend is ever unavailable.
> > >
> > >
> > > I have not a really clear picture about how the front- and backends
> > > communicate, but if we use the TCP/IP connection the backend would
> > > have the unavailability option already (asynchronous socket error),
> >
> > Yep, that is how it detects the backend going away.  If we can't connect
> > to the backend we assume it is down.  Of course it could be running fine
> > and we just don't have a net connection to it, but hey nobody's perfect :-)
> >
> > > plus it will solve most of the protocol questions. You could also
> > > choose to run a secundary protocol on onother port.
> >
> > No real need to.  The backend has the information we need, so we can
> > just query it.
> >
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