[vdr] Re: VDR feature request - Keyboard led indicators.

[Rene Bartsch <ml@bartschnet.de>]

Am Die, 2003-06-24 um 13.20 schrieb Jan Ekholm:
> On Tue, 24 Jun 2003, [iso-8859-1] Marko Myllymäki wrote:
> 
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I have nearly completed my VDR STB, but would like to have LED indicator
> >when ever I have a recording active.
> >
> >I have stripped old keyboard and connected it to the buttons on my old tuner
> >(a lot of soldering :) ), which I have used as a case for my STB.
> >
> >I seem to have three LEDs on the keyboard (or what's left of it) and would
> >like to use them as indicators to state replay and recording modes.
> >
> >I can use the setleds, which came with my RH 7.3 distribution, but it seems
> >it does not have toggle capabilities, maybe some script would do, but if I
> >have simultanious rercording of multiple programs, those leds, just wont
> >work as they should.
> 
> I soldered up a little "circuit" with two leds connected to the parallel
> port. They indicate "VDR on" and "recording in progress", just like you
> want. To actually control the "recording led" I made a minimal little
> plugin that get status info from VDR about started/stopped recordings and
> which then turns the led on/off as appropriate. Works extremely well. As
> for using the keyboard leds, well, it should just be a matter of changing
> one system() call to instead call your "setled" or similar program.
> 

As every newer keyboard has a message-led connector, which usually isn't
in use, can anyone give a hint how to control that led?

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