[mythtv-users] A different perspective on the "user experience issue"

[Gareth Glaccum]

If I want to change a setting on the backend I have in the loft, I use a 
front-end (or even my desktop), and ssh to it. No need for a remote XDM 
session or anything like that, if I am feeling frivolous, I suppose I could 
use VNC. X forwarding is set up by default on most major distributions 
(Redhat, Suse, Fedora and many others), not geeky at all.
If you want to reboot a machine, do you go to it and press the button, I 
just log into it and use reboot/shutdown? Changing tuner setups in my 
opinion is a hardware function in much the same way as rebooting, and thus 
accessing the hardware doesn't seem such an onerous task.
Possibly running:
mythtv-setup <hostname>
could make life easier for some, but personally I would rather know that 
'dangerous' tasks (for a production environment where if casualty didn't 
record for the wife, I would be going there instead) I am definitely modding 
the machine I want.
Gareth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <jedi at mishnet.org>
>    Connecting directly to a box that should be headless just so that
>you can run the GUI to configure that box is silly and contrary to much
>of what's being done generally as well as a lot of what's already being
>done already in MythTV. Getting a remote X session setup is also possible
>but a bit on the geeky side.