Notifier to let you know if mythbackend's status
Currently, the user has no way of knowing whether a backend is recording other than manually querying the log file, mythweb, or starting a frontend. This would provide an application that would regularly poll for a backend's availability via the XML status port. The backend would then show an icon when idle, an icon when recording, and an icon when inaccessible.
If it wasn't available, an inotify notification would be provided in the tray to let the user know that it couldn't be reached, and provide some options for the user to proceed.
These are including (but not limited to):
Checking the status of the the mysql service as defined in the /etc/mythtv/
Reading the end of the backend log.
Check for common errors (permissions on directories) and provide a button for quick fixes.
Ideally this application should not be written in a fashion that it is Ubuntu specific, but it will make sense to be using in Mythbuntu
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- None
- Priority:
- Medium
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
- Assignee:
- Dave Walker
- Definition:
- Obsolete
- Series goal:
- Accepted for 9.04
- Implementation:
-
Slow progress
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Thomas Mashos
- Completed by
- Thomas Mashos
Whiteboard
* FYI: Some similar tools already exist. Maybe you can recycle some ideas or code from them. --laga
I still really don't know how to implement this one. I'm not really that great of a coder yet. I'm unassigning myself from this incase someone else wants to pick it up. I'll continue to pick away at it as I get better --Thomas
