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<div>I wanted to start a fresh chain so
as to not mix up my initial email for
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<div>I just bought NVidia Shield 4K
gaming edition. Reading here from past
emails, I know a lot of people said
there were certain gotchas, especially
setting up the remote the "right" way.</div>
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<div>Can someone please give me the
'best' practices on setting up the
nVidia as a Frontend?</div>
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<div>Not sure if this matters, but I do
not have TV recording on my backend. I
am only doing this for
Music/Photos/Videos (on my storage -
NOT recordings)</div>
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you are not recording TV (or from a
STB), then MythTV should not be your
choice. There are way better suited
media slingers out there with apps for
most devices already available.<br>
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<div>I am sorry but don't agree with that - I have
been using Myth for 12 odd years. When
Comcast/Xfinity started encrypting TV channels,
I stopped the TV recording on my end. However, I
love Myth platform and even though there may be
million other offerings that can do something
better, I prefer keeping my bond with Myth.</div>
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<div>Appreciate the input, though.</div>
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<div>Reason I mention this is there were
some emails about commercial skip and
that doesn't affect me and didn't want
someone to waste their time for me on
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<div>Appreciate all the help you guys
give, as always.</div>
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<div>Thank you!</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">No worries
- I can appreciate that. The remote for the shield is
pretty nice to use, but the new LONGPRESS entries in
MythTV are non-intuitive, so I gave up trying to make
them work. Every time I tried to train one in MythTV,
the short button press kicked in and MythTV acted on
it. I am unsure how to get them working, but since I
have the Harmony stuff, I did not dwell on it too long
and just use my harmony mapped to my keys as always.
If you are going to use multiple Shields, I recommend
upon first cofig of the frontend to make a unique
identifier you can distinguish so MythTV does no make
them all seem similar (in case you want to copy the
keymappings from one Shield to the other in the
database without having to go through it all over
again).</div>
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<div style="font-family:monospace,monospace">-Greg</div>
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I honestly don't see myself getting multiple Shields - however,
if the "right" way is to make a unique identifier - I guess I
should do it that way? Is there a step by step somewhere on
setting up the remote? Or should I search it online? I am asking
here on our forums since need to customize it for my Myth
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<p>Even if you only use 1 shield, you should create a unique
identifier. Peter has indicated that the default identifier
will change when new packages are issued ( I think it was when new
signing certs were used, but I don't remember for sure). if you
don't want to lose your settings down the road, you should create
a unique identifier from the start.</p>
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<p>There are multiple ways of managing the remote and they have been
discussed a fair amount of the last few months on the list. The
most common seem to be:</p>
<p>1) Using the long press entries</p>
<p>2) Use the harmony hub to bind using bluetooth and send
keypresses from the virtual keyboard</p>
<p>3) Use the USB flirc device + any remote (including harmony)</p>
<p>4) Use a remote that emulates a keyboard + USB dongle<br>
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<p>5) Use a bluetooth keyboard/mouse</p>
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<p>I am personally using #2 and #3 for my two shields.<br>
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<p>Michael</p>
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