[mythtv-users] MythVideo question / feature request (?)

David Greaves myth at dgreaves.com
Wed Feb 6 21:18:06 UTC 2008


Mike Perkins wrote:
> Chris Pinkham wrote:
>> * On Wed Feb 06, 2008 at 11:30:17AM -0500, Phil Bridges wrote:
>>> On Feb 6, 2008 10:30 AM, Greg Estabrooks <greg at phaze.org> wrote:
>>>>> That would probably work - I'm trying to picture in my mind how it
>>>>> would work, though.  It'd be really nice if the telnet interface
>>>>  Hmmmmm
>>>>
>>>>  Status notifications to the telnet interface might be useful....
>>>>
>>> I'd really like *lots* of status dumped to the telnet port, but you
>>> gotta start somwehere :)
>> Any modifications done to the Network Control (aka telnet) interface
>> need be on a pull basis.  The Network Control interface should never
>> send the client anything it didn't ask for (ie, the response to a command).
>>
>> Clients connected to the Network Control port are by default dumb in
>> nature.  It's not meant to be an event driven interface.
>>
> Perhaps what these guys need is something like the syslog interface rather than 
> the telnet interface. Hmm, perhaps it would be possible to leverage syslog 
> somehow? If not, are there other mechanisms already in the system that can be used?

isn't it more like /sys/app/myth_fe/video/aspect_ratio  ....

so a telnet command like


get_status /myth_fe/video/aspect_ratio
==>
aspect_ratio 16:9

or

get_status /myth_fe/video/*
==>
aspect_ratio 16:9
playtime 1034


David



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