[mythtv-users] I just want to make a wife-friendly MythTV system

[jedi]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:22:01PM +1100, Jake Anderson wrote:
> jedi wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:06:37PM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
>>   
>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Marc Barrett <mnealbarrett at cox.net> wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I have a mostly-working MythTV setup involving a DCH-3200 and
>>>> a firewire connection.  For the unprotected channels, it works
>>>> OK, but if you try to record from a protected channel, the
>>>> backend will hang or crash.  With these problems, it just isn't
>>>> anywhere close to being "wife-friendly".  I can't teach her how to
>>>>       
>>
>>      If you do this with a Tivo and a DishTV reciever you will get the
>> same result. You just need to set up your channels properly and hide  
>> all the ones that will give your configuration fits.
>>
>>   
>>>> use it, because invariably she'll try to record a protected
>>>> channel, crash it, think she wrecked it, and not want to touch
>>>> it for the rest of her life.
>>>>       
>>> Can't you remove those channels entirely?
>>>     
>>
>>     There's a reasonably nice interface to do this within MythWeb.
>>
>>     Personally I just do manual SQL...
>> ______________________________________
> I use a butterfly ;-P
> http://xkcd.com/378/

    Click on checkboxes and buttons n+1 times if you like.

    With 60 channels you don't really want, that can be rather tedious.