[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

Mike Perkins mikep at randomtraveller.org.uk
Thu Aug 16 17:51:29 UTC 2012


On 16/08/12 17:52, Michael T. Dean wrote:
> On 08/16/2012 12:12 PM, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>
>> I would rather suggest that this indicates that this particular setting is in
>> the wrong place.
>>
>> It's much like having to fire up the front end (on the master backend that
>> lives in a cupboard) in order to select a theme so that you can then shut it
>> down in order to set up the backend properly... the default Terra theme is
>> unusable (IMHO).
>
> You simply have to run mythtv-setup, the setup program for MythTV, to set the
> appropriate setting.  Note that it's not called mythbackend-setup...
>
I'm still running 0.24.1. There is no option in mythtv-setup to select a theme. 
If that has changed in 0.25 up, then that's progress, I guess.

> And, on a frontend-only machine, it should be easy to run mythtv-setup,
> since--by definition--a frontend has a GUI environment already configured.  It
> may even be easier to run mythtv-setup on a frontend-only system than on a
> backend because a) you don't have to stop the running backend on the system and
> b) you can run mythtv-setup while mythfrontend is running and c) backends may
> well be headless systems, which require some other approach to running the GUI
> mythtv-setup program, such as VNC or ssh -Y.
>
> It sounds like the minimyth "menu option available once the front end has booted
> up [that] allows you to stop the backend, run mythtv-setup and restart the
> backend" is quite appropriate being displayed only on a system with a
> backend--since there's no backend to shut down and restart if it's not a backend
> system.  Now, perhaps it would be convenient if there's also an option to just
> run mythtv-setup on a frontend-only system, but I'd guess they're treading
> lightly there because some changes in mythtv-setup will require other backend
> processes on other hosts to be shut down, so it may actually do more harm than
> good to make it easy to access.
>
You don't need to run mythtv-setup with minimyth at all. Most settings related 
to network locations, etc. are set using a config file read when the frontend 
netboots. All others are accessed through the normal frontend setup menus.

The only occasion when you need to run mythtv-setup is when you wish to run a 
slave backend on the netbooted host.

-- 

Mike Perkins



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