cardcomm has been working on a python script to the API and I've been testig it for him also on my desktop.
I'll leave him to update you about the script when it's working, but I hacked it up a bit and also got it to display what I wanted

Pointing at my main rig:

[root@minepeon ~]# sudo python cgminerLCDStats.py
File "cgminerLCDStats.py", line 89
print "No summary data found"
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
[root@minepeon ~]#
complete linux newbie here....but trying to learn
Any hints

Should I be using python3 (or 2)
Edit : runs under python2 but
JSON decoding error - bad JSON sring:
{"STATUS":[{"STATUS":"S","When":1375336997,"Code blah blah blah