[mythtv-users] Is there any way to determine what a frontend is doing?

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Tom Flair <tom at graniteskies.net> wrote:
> As the subject reads, is there any way of telling what a remote frontend is
> doing?   ie, sitting idle,  playing back a video from mythvideo (with title
> or filename), playing back a recording (title or filename would be useful),
> idling after launching an external program (ie mame, mplayer, xine, hulu,
> etc)

Assuming you have the network control interface enabled on the frontend:

$ telnet 192.168.0.208 6546
Trying 192.168.0.208...
Connected to 192.168.0.208.
Escape character is '^]'.
MythFrontend Network Control
Type 'help' for usage information
---------------------------------
# query location
mainmenu
# quit
Connection closed by foreign host.