[mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

[avarakin at optonline.net]

You can consider VNC, it can be tunneled via SSH, so you will see the screen the way it looks on the remote PC.
Strangely, it works much faster than X. Seems like X protocol is very bad for slow links.

----- Original Message -----
From: Brad Templeton <brad+myth at templetons.com>
Date: Saturday, January 8, 2005 5:11 pm
Subject: [mythtv-users] Talking to more than one backend

> 
> Just a wishlist feature.  After giving a mythtv box to family, I
> want to be able to maintain it.  I can make a tunnel and run mythweb,
> or even phpmyadmin.  
> 
> But I don't want to run mythfrontend remotely for a couple of reasons.
> A big x application can be slow over a remote link, and since my 
> screenis the same size, it will do the annoying resizing of all 
> the graphics
> once for me and then once for them, unless I set my screen to their
> exact size.
> 
> A couple of options that might make this nice:
> 
>    a) Command line options on mythfrontend to say which backend 
> to talk
>       to, or perhaps more simply, which mysql.txt file to use to 
> say which
>       SQL server & DB to talk to for that info.       Needs to have
>       the ability to set the port for the mysql server because 
> the way
>       tunnel over ssh works is via port forwarding a different 
> port to
>       the sql server on the remote machine.
> 
>    I could do a script to swap in different mysql.txt files but
>    the port issue is another matter.
> 
>    b) If I do run it remotely over X, have the cache of sizes be done
>       once per screen size, so temporarily running it over X doesn't
>       reset things.  Or if not once per screen size, once per X 
> server.       ie. have one cache for $DISPLAY = ":0.0" and another 
> one for
>       my remote X server.
> 
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