Mailing List Archive: monitoring mythbackend and other questions...

monitoring mythbackend and other questions...

May 17, 2003, 11:30 PM

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I've been using MythTV for a few days now and am really pleased with the
project. I am curious, however, to know if there is any way to monitor
the status/current state of the backend server? I haven't seen any way
to check what mythbackend is up to short of looking for actively
updating files in the video directory.

Also, is there any way to manually control the recording process? I
would like to be able to record a 5 minute segment without twiddling
about with MySQL; is this do-able?

Along those lines, is it possible to *stop* a recording in process,
short of deleting it?

Sorry for the newbie questions - if answers are available elsewhere,
please let me know.

Re: monitoring mythbackend and other questions... [ In reply to ]

linux.news at bucksch

May 18, 2003, 12:51 AM

Post #2 of 4 (1178 views)

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Steve Davidson wrote:

>I am curious, however, to know if there is any way to monitor
>the status/current state of the backend server? I haven't seen any way to check what mythbackend is up to short of looking for actively updating files in the video directory.
>
There is a small http server running at port 6544 (by default), e.g.
<http://yourserver:6544>, but the output doesn't seem to be very helpful.

The Debian start script creates a log file in
/var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log. This is the same you will see on the
console, if you start mythbackend directly. The output there is somewhat
helpful.

BTW: Whenever you wonder what's going on and it's not a GUI app, you
should generally look in /var/log/, there is often the information you
need just waiting for you to use it.

>Also, is there any way to manually control the recording process? I would like to be able to record a 5 minute segment without twiddling about with MySQL; is this do-able?
>
The CVS version (the latest development verion, not 0.8) has a manual
recording option.

Ben

Re: monitoring mythbackend and other questions... [ In reply to ]

smdavidson at belugasoftware

May 18, 2003, 1:24 AM

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On Sun, 2003-05-18 at 00:51, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> Steve Davidson wrote:
>
> >I am curious, however, to know if there is any way to monitor
> >the status/current state of the backend server? I haven't seen any way to check what mythbackend is up to short of looking for actively updating files in the video directory.
> >
> There is a small http server running at port 6544 (by default), e.g.
> <http://yourserver:6544>, but the output doesn't seem to be very helpful.

I noticed that, but all I seem to see is "1 encoder is local" from the
output... Guess I'll have to dig in to the source. (Anyone have any more
info on this?)

>
> The Debian start script creates a log file in
> /var/log/mythtv/mythbackend.log. This is the same you will see on the
> console, if you start mythbackend directly. The output there is somewhat
> helpful.

Doesn't seem to contain anything of use; just startup info and some
occasional "strange error flushing buffer" errors. Does the verbose
output contain more useful info?

> >Also, is there any way to manually control the recording process? I would like to be able to record a 5 minute segment without twiddling about with MySQL; is this do-able?
> >
> The CVS version (the latest development verion, not 0.8) has a manual
> recording option.

Thanks, I'll check out the CVS version.

>
> Ben
>
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RE: monitoring mythbackend and other questions... [ In reply to ]

rkulagowski at thrupoint

May 22, 2003, 11:22 AM

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> I've been using MythTV for a few days now and am really
> pleased with the project. I am curious, however, to know if there
> is any way to monitor the status/current state of the backend
> server? I haven't seen any way to check what mythbackend is up to
> short of looking for actively updating files in the video
> directory.

Run mythbackend with the -v option and it will tell you more.

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