A software version of the interface would be just sweet too. Imagine a FF plugin that sits on the toolbar, which has imitation LED's so I can see the status of my mythbox at work (without going to mythweb obviously).
Would be cool :P (not as cool as real LED's of course :P) Dave On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:52:25 -0500, David George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/27/2005 05:24 PM, Asciimonster wrote: > > > David George wrote: > > > >> I thought about adding a thread to the backend to do this, but > >> figured it would be better to have a separate processes that asks the > >> backend for the info. First by doing it this way we can have > >> multiple LED boxes (one for each frontend). Also I wanted to have > >> the ability for the box to detect if the backend is ever unavailable. > > > > > > I have not a really clear picture about how the front- and backends > > communicate, but if we use the TCP/IP connection the backend would > > have the unavailability option already (asynchronous socket error), > > Yep, that is how it detects the backend going away. If we can't connect > to the backend we assume it is down. Of course it could be running fine > and we just don't have a net connection to it, but hey nobody's perfect :-) > > > plus it will solve most of the protocol questions. You could also > > choose to run a secundary protocol on onother port. > > No real need to. The backend has the information we need, so we can > just query it. > > -- > David > > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > -- GMAIL is 'da bomb baby....YEAH
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