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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/09/18 11:54, Mike Hodson wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Sat, Sep 1, 2018 at 4:47 AM Tim Draper
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rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">is there a remote
control for an FE that runs on a desktop OS? i use
mythmote on my android phone but find that i'm sometimes
on my (linux) laptop and would be useful to control the FE
from there.<br>
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<div>There look to be a few listed here, hopefully one might
work for you.</div>
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Just for fun, as I also use mythmote on Android.<br>
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I just tried mythremote (not as fully featured as mythmote) from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca/somemythtvtools.htm">http://mythtv.bss.ab.ca/somemythtvtools.htm</a> which is linked to from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket#Used_By">https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket#Used_By</a> (2nd up
from bottom of table)<br>
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On Xubuntu 18.04 the following changes are required, the original
was done a long time ago (2008 from the zip file)<br>
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Install perl-tk and perl-telnet stuff<br>
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sudo apt install perl-tk libnet-telnet-perl <br>
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Changes to mythremote files after unzipping
mythremote_telnetperltk_20081004.zip<br>
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file remote-Tk<br>
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add ./ in front of remote at line 156 so it becomes:<br>
`./remote $function`;<br>
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file remote<br>
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change line 5 from my $host = 'tv'; to ip address of mythfrontend
machine e.g.<br>
my $host = '192.168.0.20';<br>
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Tested (briefly) against current mythtv 29 (from mythbuntu ppa) and
mythtv master (30-pre built from source) frontends.<br>
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Mike<br>
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