On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 7:48 AM, Yan Seiner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yan@seiner.com">yan@seiner.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
My parents, who are computer literate but technically ignorant, have had<br>
it with the broken commercial players out there. They asked me how I<br>
deal with it and I said, Myth.<br>
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Now they want to know if they can have myth...<br>
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We're 3,000 miles apart, so no weekend visits to fix things. I'm a bit<br>
leery of setting up a myth system that far away.<br>
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Is anyone doing anything like this?<br>
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This would be a combined FE/BE, plugged into a TV on one end and<br>
probably a STB cable box on the other. I think they have comcast.<br>
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Should I even attempt this? Or should I run? Suggestions?<br>
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--Yan<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Wow. My first impulse would be to run. I think if you want to make this work, at a minimum you need to:<br>1. Build and configure the system yourself at home, trying to mimic their external hardware (e.g., TV input type, STB, etc.) as much as possible.<br>
2. Deliver the system and set it up in person, including things like lirc.<br>3. Spend several days on-site training them and fine-tuning things.<br>4. Make sure you can ssh in after you leave, to diagnose/fix problems that come up.<br>
<br>But really, this is a risky undertaking. I wouldn't recommend this for my parents, who are also computer literate but unfamiliar with Linux, unless I lived nearby.<br><br>Jim<br>