[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>> On 8/13/2012 02:41, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>>
>>> Am 2012-08-13 08:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>>>>
>>>> Am 2012-08-13 02:49, schrieb Paul Bender:
>>>>
>>>>> I have no problem with you asking the questions at either location. In
>>>>> this case there is a very good chance that your problem is due to some
>>>>> configuration and patching in MiniMyth that makes it possible for an
>>>>> application on the frontend as well as an application on the network to
>>>>> communicate over the telnet socket. In addition, I have some
>>>>> recollection that I saw a port change between 0.24 and 0.25, but I could
>>>>> be wrong. Anyway, for more targeting archiving, having the discussion on
>>>>> the MiniMyth forum might be better.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> this is the issue:
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/mythmote/issues/detail?id=69
>>>
>>> without real solution, afai see.
>>
>>
>> There is no real solution, because there is no real problem to solve.
>>
>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket#IP_Address_availability
>>
>> If MiniMyth actually does not provide a copy of mythtv-setup to allow users
>> to blank that setting and allow mythfrontend to listen everywhere, then this
>> is a fine example of why not including applications is a terrible design
>> choice.  I realize it is designed to take up a minimum of storage, but
>> mythtv-setup is all of 360KB.
>>
>> Also for what it's worth, it's not a telnet socket, and should not be used
>> with telnet clients.
>
> The minimyth home page says "MiniMyth is a small Linux distribution
> that turns a diskless computer into a MythTV frontend and slave
> backend"
>
> If it can run as a slave backend, surely it must be possible to run
> mythtv-setup?

To answer my own question, mythtv-setup is included in the minimyth
rootfs tarball that I downloaded today.