Mythlcdserver
Note: The correct title of this article is mythlcdserver. It appears incorrectly here due to technical restrictions.
mythlcdserver is a program for displaying MythTV information on an LCD screen through LCDproc. This means you can have data from Myth (channel number, show name, current size of pause buffer,etc., etc.) displayed on an LCD screen. So ... possible to do things like play/advance music tracks without your TV having to be on. This can be enabled in the frontend settings.
Note: if you see messages such as this when running mythlcdserver from a command prompt:
2006-09-04 23:41:32.448 LCDProcClient: WARNING: Something is gettingpassed to LCDd that it doesn't understand 2006-09-04 23:41:32.449 last command: widget_set Time timeWidget 5 2 "11 41 PM"
It means that mythtv has been compiled with a different version of the LCDProc protocol.
MythTV 0.19.0 and prior can only communicate in the LCDProc 0.4.x protocol.
MythTV 0.20.0 and up should be able to communicate in both LCDProc 0.4.x and 0.5.x protocol versions. (this may be a build option?)
Setup Mythtvlcdserver
You can find the setup options in Utilities/Setup->Setup->Appearance->LCD device display Check the Enable LCD device and the following options appear.
Display Time Display Menus Display Music Artist and Title items Artist -Title Artist [Album] Title Display Channel Information Display Recording Status Display Volume Information Display Generic Information Backlight Always On Heartbeat Always On Display Large Clock LCD Key order - ABCDEF Menu Pop-up Time : 5 (The time (in seconds) that the menu will remain visible after navigation.)