[mythtv-users] Overkill...

Matt skd5aner at gmail.com
Wed Jan 4 18:31:06 UTC 2006


On 1/4/06, Scott Alfter <mythtv at salfter.dyndns.org> wrote:

> CascadeHush wrote:
> > On 04/01/2006, at 9:49 PM, Ramses Smeyers wrote:
> >>> It seems that MythTV has both a back and front end, and perhaps  the
> >>> answer is to just run the back end, but I wonder if this is  possible?
> >>
> >> Yes, just run the backend and run the mythweb module to scheduele  the
> >> tv programs (you can have one shot recordings or recurring  recordings)
> >>
> >> The beaty of mythtv is that it is very modular and you do _not_  have
> >> to install all the modules.
> >
> > ahh, excellent... a bright ray of hope.  Mythweb sounds excellent...  I
> > presume it enables one to schedule stuff on any web browser.
>
> MythWeb is nice, but the scheduling options in the frontend are more
> comprehensive.  While I was out of town, I wanted to set up MythTV to record a
> movie the next time it was on.  It wasn't anywhere in the current schedule, but
> with the frontend, you can set it to search for a show (or search for
> everything with a particular actor, or whatever) and record it whenever it
> comes up.  AFAICT, you can't do that from MythWeb.

I believe this functionality is now in mythweb in SVN.

> MythWeb lets you schedule
> stuff from the current listings and it lets you change recording options for
> stuff that's already in the schedule, but that's all.
>


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