[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Aug 16 14:42:35 UTC 2012


On 16/08/12 08:22, Paul Gardiner wrote:
> On 16/08/2012 03:32, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So this living-room appliance needs settings made that cannot be
> performed though it's usual interface? Someone has to access the
> command line and provoke the machine into displaying mythtv-setup
> in place of mythfrontend briefly to make the configuration change
> and then provoke it into redisplaying mythfrontend? That doesn't
> sound like an ideal design either. Or should minimyth provide a normal
> desktop from which the user had to start mythfrontend each time
> the machine is booted. Again not a great design.
>
Er, no. To access the backend setup parameters, provided that the slave backend 
is activated in the tftpboot config file, there's a menu option available once 
the front end has booted up. This allows you to stop the backend, run 
mythtv-setup and restart the backend.

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Mike Perkins



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