<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tony <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfr131@gmail.com">cfr131@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Looks very interesting. I am looking for another frontend. How does this display recorded shows? What I want to know is does it just give the filename or the recorded show name? <br></blockquote><div><br>The Patriot uses two means, at least, to pull content from a mythbackend.<br>
<br> 1) Builtin upnp client queries the recording and video list from myth backend upnp server. The mythtv builtin upnp server shows the nice-name. Show: Episode, as in "Flashpoint: Severed Ties"<br><br>
2) And the patriot will also auto-login to samba shares for streaming, or copying to Patriot attached or internal storage. To get nice nice names here, you must a) have samba enabled/configured on your mythtv backend, (see my excerpt from /etc/samba/smb.conf), and b) from /usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/ you get the script "<a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a>" (make sure you have a current version) which creates the nice-names symbolic links in show_names. <a href="http://mythlink.pl">mythlink.pl</a> makes fresh links for all shows, and can be ran by hand, by cron, or user-job in mythtv. I run it as a final step in a larger user-job, by default it writes to the show_names directory.<br>
<br>/etc/samba/smb.conf<br><br>[global]<br><deleted text followed by,><br><2 entries to make show_names work right.><br>unix extensions = no<br>wide links = yes<br><br>[recordings]<br>comment = TV Recordings<br>
path = /storage1/show_names<br>public = yes<br>writable = no<br>create mask = 0777<br>directory mask = 0777<br>force user = mythtv<br>force group = mythtv<br><br>[videos]<br>comment = Videos<br>path = /var/lib/mythtv/videos<br>
public = yes<br>writable = yes<br>create mask = 0660<br>directory mask = 0770<br>force user = mythtv<br>force group = mythtv<br><br>[music]<br>comment = Music<br>path = /var/lib/mythtv/music<br>public = yes<br>writable = yes<br>
create mask = 0660<br>directory mask = 0770<br>force user = mythtv<br>force group = mythtv<br><br><br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Rose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan@linuxtrader.com" target="_blank">dan@linuxtrader.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="padding-left: 1ex; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);"><div><div></div><div class="h5">Keywords: upnp<br>Keywords: affordable front-end<br>
<br>I have one of these as a poor-man's mythtv frontend and I am truly impressed. They are on-sale new for $55 after rebate, as discussed on Dealnews and points to <a href="http://newegg.com/" target="_blank">newegg.com</a>. ( I paid $65 for mine)<br>
<br>I run my Patriot wireless with an 802.11/n usb adapter ($8 that I also picked up from dealnews), but required the right router settings. I also move my patriot occasionally, and ethernet always works with no special setup.<br>
<br>My myth backend is ATSC over-the-air only, but the patriot player has capabilities well beyond that.<br><br>More...<br><br>UPNP streams to <span>Patriot</span> Box Office HD Media Player, better and cheaper than PS3<br>
<br><a href="http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1136/1/" target="_blank">http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1136/1/</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><font color="#888888">Dan Rose</font><br></div></div></blockquote></div>
</blockquote><div><br>Dan Rose <br></div></div>