<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 8:52 AM, lee <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lee@yun.yagibdah.de">lee@yun.yagibdah.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<br>
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how do you set up a remote frontend on a Mac? I tried, but:<br>
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1.) it's unusably slow<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I never got smooth HD playback on the mythfrontend under OSX, so I install ubuntu on my mini mac was satisfied.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
2.) apparently, it uses at least part of the settings for a frontend<br>
on one computer on another one as well<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I just grabbed the frontend prebuilt binaries for OSX and it worked with the caveat above.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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3.) it produces error messages about failed communication with the<br>
backend<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>see #4 below. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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4.) it is unknown which access rights to the database the remote<br>
frontend needs<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is documented on the mythtv documentation page.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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5.) the remote frontend tries to update the database and fails<br>
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6.) it's not possible to watch recordings<br>
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7.) the recordings of one user are available to the remote frontend<br>
and thus to another user<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>All the items above looks like a permission issue with the db. Read the mythtv docs pertaining to mysql setup for remote frontends.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I expected it would be possible for a user at the remote frontend to<br>
use his own settings and make his own recordings and watch them at his<br>
frontend, independent of other users at other frontends (as far as<br>
hardware limitations of the TV card allow), with an option to share<br>
recordings between users if they want to. If that isn't possible,<br>
what's the point?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I have not idea what you mean by this. I am running a single backend with multiple frontends on osx,ubuntu, and the xbox with no issues. Each frontend can watch recording, watch live tv, and schedule recordings and delete them.</div>
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