[edit] Info

The MythStatus Screenlet polls the XML info page of MythTV's backend (normally port 6544), and parses the XML information to display the status of your backend. It shows the next ten upcoming recordings, highlighting in red, any that are currently recording.

It also shows Last Guide Update status, a disk space graph, Load Average and Temperature as provided by MythTV's XML status page.

The default theme (MePo) uses the MePo character from the Media Portal project. The MePo character was designed by Glenn Melenhorst and is used with permission. The concept of the MePo theme is from the MePo MythTV theme by zdzisekg.

More information about the MythStatus Screenlet is available on Net Wolf's blog.

Version 0.0.2 now supports MythTV 0.20 and 0.21 XML status formats.

[edit] Installation

Install using the Screenlets-manager or by extracting the contents of the screenlet's archive to the directory "$HOME/.screenlets".

Set the backend server in Properties... as per usage below.

[edit] Requirements

cairo, pango, math, urllib, re, gobject, python-xml

[edit] Usage

When you first start up the MythStatus Screen, right click the top bar, choose "Properties...", "Options", and click the "MythStatus" tab. In here, set the "URL of XML status page" to be the URL of your MythTV backend servers XML page.

You can change the "Poll Interval" here too, as it defaults to 60 seconds, which might hit you myth box a bit hard (the info pages do lots of queries on the DB).