1 Topic by wayn3w (edited by wayn3w 2007-12-12 05:28:31)

  • Registered: 2007-11-09
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Topic: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

Some people use LCD screens to show what is being recorded/played on MythTV; this could do the same thing, and maybe make it mo pretty.  Often the utility that drives the LCD screen is a publicly available program called LCDProc.   Having a 'Chumby' port may make a small number of open source projects displayable on the Chumby.

(Granted it is overkill, but there are some similarities between LCDProc and Chumby, such as rotating content.)

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  • Registered: 2007-11-27
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Re: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

I'm a mythtv'er, too, and some level of integration would be cool.  Maybe just a 'upcoming recordings' widget (actually, that would be pretty easy, now that I think about it).

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  • Registered: 2007-12-12
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Re: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

I want this too! I have a mythtv running, and i'm going to check how one can check those things... shouldn't be too hard... a service running on the myth-backend could transform it... the only thing is that most widgets should work over the internet... and need a proxy or something to use any local information...  or am i wrong with this?

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Re: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

A widget should be able to access devices on your local area network, assuming the machines it's hitting grant the correct permissions.

There's fundamentally no real difference between hitting server on your LAN vs one of the Internet, which is one major reason why the (sometimes annoying) Flash sandbox security system is there in the first place.

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  • Registered: 2007-12-12
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Re: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

http://www.gtbox.info/gtbox/blog/2005/0 … om-mythtv/
here i found some info on how to extract info from http://yourmythbox-ip:6544/xml
but the scripts weren't all there anymore.  I tried to make it work, but seem to have failed, so far...
it shouldn't be hard ofcourse to make something out of the xml-file mythtv provides

  • Registered: 2007-12-12
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Re: MythTV front end/LCDproc replacement

i found this:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/St … lash_video

on how to stream mythtv recordings using flash.... big_smile could be interesting..
and this to complement it:

http://pyg.keonox.com/tests/flash_flv_player/

an flv-player in flash.. woohoo!! maybe we could make this work and make chumby into a personal video viewer too big_smile

Bert