[mythtv-users] UPDATED: Bash/MySQL script for copying and/or deleting mythfrontend profiles

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Tue Jan 12 21:34:26 UTC 2010


Matt Beadon wrote:
>> BTW it works like a charm and now I can see my myth recordings on my
>> XP laptop -- woohooo....
>>
>> Here is an updated version of the code with some minor usability
>> enhancements:
>>
> 
> Great timing (for me)!  I just got my new laptop running last night and
> fired up myth FE only to realize that I'd have to spend ages getting the
> settings cloned from my existing FE before I'd be happy using it. :(  Then I
> found this thread, thanks!  Haven't run it yet but I will when I get home.
> 
I still have great difficulty understanding why anyone should be *cloning* the 
front-end settings at all, unless your new front-end is *identical* 
hardware-wise to the old one, and only differs by the name.

What's wrong with just installing mythfrontend and running it? It drops you 
directly into the setup screens, you fill in the details (which you have to do 
anyway somewhere when cloning) and then Bob's your uncle.

Why carry across a lot of cruft that will probably be wrong for your new hardware?

-- 

Mike Perkins



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