[mythtv-users] MobileMyth?

[Aaron Stewart]

Easier to do a detect on network connection, check the essid of the wiFI
point, and hit the server if it's considered "local".

Rsync works well, I agree.  Though the idea of having a service
"listening" for the car didn't occur to me, I'd probably have the car pc
handle the connectivity, rather than having the home server trying to
connect to anything and everything in its sights :).


On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Robert Denier wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 17:52 -0800, Aaron Stewart wrote:
> > I kicked this idea around for a while (I think my post on it is in the
> > archives somewhere) but didn't get terribly far with it (was just working
> > on building out hardware).
> >
> > Though my idea had to do with syncing using WiFI to a master server while
> > the car is parked, rather than physically attached storage.
>
> Thats what I would do as well.  You need to have some kind of cron job
> in either the car computer or a home pc that tests if the car is around.
> >From there just setup an rsync server to mirror a tree on the car
> computer.
>
> Rsync also seems to be great for web sites, especially if you are on a
> modem or what have you.  With a cron job setup on the server to sync
> occasionally and a private rsync server, the job of keeping the site in
> sync even on a really slow connection is quite easy.
>
>
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005, Andrew Close wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 16:59:48 -0700, Nathan Hesson <nhesson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Rather new to the mythtv scene but had an idea and wanted to see what
> > > > kindof response this got.  I know some c++ programming and am looking
> > > > at trying to build a MobileMyth extension.  It would be a complete
> > > > linux from scratch operating system that is intended to run on a
> > > > lightweight, machine for your car.  My idea is that you have an
> > > > external harddrive (be it usb or firewire or flashdrive or whatever
> > > > and you select from a mythweb interface or interfacein mythtv what
> > > > content you would like to transfer (music movies games recordings
> > > > images)  You then transfer then to the drive and plug the drive into a
> > > > seperate computer in your car.  It then reads the drive and you have a
> > > > mythtv interface to select all of the content that you just selected.
> > > > I know you could export everything and load it to a notebook or
> > > > something but i am looking at doing something that would take very
> > > > little time to select.  Kindof a set it and forget it.  Also it would
> > > > be very cool if you could control it via a touchpanel but that
> > > > shouldnt be too hard to interpret mouse movements.  Anyway, that was
> > > > kind of long so I will shutup and see what everyone thinks.
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Nathan
> > > > p.s.  If this has been talked about before please let me know.  i
> > > > looked around and could not find anything.
> > >
> > > hi Nathan,
> > >
> > > i like the idea of a mobileMyth.  there may be other plugins out there
> > > that provide some of this functionality.  one of my future projects is
> > > to put together a carputer and i thought Myth would be a great
> > > frontend.  add a MythGPS plugin and maybe a MythOBDII plugin. :)
> > > instead of LFS you may want to look into borrowing from KnoppMyth
> > > since it's already a paired down distro that is set up for Myth use.
> > > unless you have LFS experience or are itching to try...
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