Sounds impressive, got a circuit diagram and/or any pics if it? Ash.
On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 07:52:09 -0500, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/24/2005 11:50 PM, M. Barnabas Luntzel wrote: > > > something I liked about my (now unplugged) tivo, was that I could tell > > it was recording by the red light on the front panel. > > > > so I was thinking, how difficult would it be to make my own? Couldn't > > be much more difficult than making your own IR blaster. pport to LED, > > USB to LED. maybe even one of those USB lamps for sale could be > > purposed for this. > > > > anybody else thought about / done something like this? > > A friend and I built a fairly sophisticated one that supports LED's for > up to 5 tuners (actually could support up to 15 if you want to). The > tuner LEDs are bicolor so they are green when not recording and red when > recording. It was done this way so you could see which ones are > recording in a dark room. We use the myth backend protocol to get tuner > status, so it should work if you have slave backends also. It also has > a system error light, and a message waiting indicator. We also built in > a switch with LED status to switch between two HDTV antennas, but > haven't finished support for that part of it. I added some additional > code to the backend protocol to query for low disk space and low guide > data to set the system error light. If we can't communicate with the > backend we flash the system error light. Also, the message waiting > indicator queries the backend for messages in the voice mail database > that I wrote. It may be able to be modified to work with MythPhone, but > I haven't looked at MythPhone yet to see what would be involved. It > isn't necessarily cheap or easy to build and it does use a serial port, > but it is really cool! > > Here is a thread on another alternative: > http://gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/73657?do=post_view_threaded > > -- > David > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users >
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