[vdr] Re: Background Image for radio ??

[Jan Ekholm <chakie@infa.abo.fi>]

On Wed, 12 May 2004, Laurence Abbott wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 06:48, Jan Ekholm wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 May 2004, Malcolm Caldwell wrote:
>> >I also find this quite annoying.  I have had broken recordings caused by
>> >forgetting that I was recording something and restarting vdr to fix the
>> >hang.  A simple message like "Recording in progress, channel X not
>> >available" would help.
>>
>> This is a valid reason to solder up a little LED that indicates a
>> recording is in progress. Has saved me a few times when I've been
>> wondering why a certain channel wasn't available. :)
>
>Ahhhh...good thinking! Which plugin is that with? I had a go with the
>statusled plugin (keyboard LEDs) but that never did anything for me!
>Hopefully, I might have a LCD soon but a red LED will be much more
>obvious from a distance!

I just soldered two LED:s to a parallel port and created a small simple
plugin that lights one LED when VDR is running and another when a
recording is being made. Instructions for the wiring can be found here:

   http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/circuits/parallel_output.html

The led plugin is found here:

   http://www.infa.abo.fi/~chakie/projects/vdr/

You can hack one up yourself in a few minutes, just copy the
cStatus example from the PLUGINS.html file.

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                  do is give them a meaningful look."
                                              -- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods


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