<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Raymond Wagner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raymond@wagnerrp.com" target="_blank">raymond@wagnerrp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 11/8/2012 17:45, Jim Oltman wrote:<br>
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and can do telnet commands to MythTV (this is how Myth accepts remote<br>
commands).<br>
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MythTV does not accept remote control commands over telnet.<br></blockquote><div><br>yeah but the perception is that a socket accepting connections like that IS geared to telnet and telnet does by and large seem to work the last time I tried. (Admittedly, being aware that netcat is the RIGHT solution I use that on the rare occasion that I want to play with this stuff, so it's a while since I tried telnet.)<br>
<br>I have also seen an implementation of an onscreen remote that piped commands to telnet, again some time ago. Wrong maybe but it did nothing to dispel the telnet "myth". <br></div></div>