Mailing List Archive: MythLCD

Isaac (et. al.)

I've just added a tree to the MC source called mythlcd that will (soon) let
you control an LCDproc server from MythTV. For those who haven't played with
LCDproc, it's a client/server system for controlling LCD panels in Linux
boxes (and BSD & Solaris, see http://www.lcdproc.org). 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. There's some
"screen" shots in a jpg in the new directory.

It is not intergated with *ANY* Myth code at the moment, but it does include
a very simple demo app to show how it could be. Thought I'd get it out so
people can have a look at it before I start mucking about in the actual
MythTV and MythMusic code. Note that even if you don't (yet!) own an LCD
module, you can make the lcdproc server write to a terminal window (curses)
rather than an actual device for developing/debugging purposes.

I won't be touching the mythlcd code for a few days (in case anyone wants to
go ahead and start fiddling) ... I need to get back to MythWeb.

BR,

Thor

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On Friday 20 September 2002 12:45 am, Thor Sigvaldason wrote:
> Isaac (et. al.)
>
> I've just added a tree to the MC source called mythlcd that will (soon)
> let you control an LCDproc server from MythTV. For those who haven't played
> with LCDproc, it's a client/server system for controlling LCD panels in
> Linux boxes (and BSD & Solaris, see http://www.lcdproc.org). 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.
> There's some "screen" shots in a jpg in the new directory.
>
> It is not intergated with *ANY* Myth code at the moment, but it does
> include a very simple demo app to show how it could be. Thought I'd get it
> out so people can have a look at it before I start mucking about in the
> actual MythTV and MythMusic code. Note that even if you don't (yet!) own an
> LCD module, you can make the lcdproc server write to a terminal window
> (curses) rather than an actual device for developing/debugging purposes.
>
> I won't be touching the mythlcd code for a few days (in case anyone wants
> to go ahead and start fiddling) ... I need to get back to MythWeb.

Very nice API -- should be easy to integrate into things. What do you think
of a little shared lib for stuff like this and the menu code, that should be
used between the different myth* applications?

Isaac