[mythtv-users] I just want to make a wife-friendly MythTV system

[jedi]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 08:06:37PM +1300, Steve Hodge wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 7:10 PM, Marc Barrett <mnealbarrett at cox.net> wrote:
> > I have a mostly-working MythTV setup involving a DCH-3200 and
> > a firewire connection.  For the unprotected channels, it works
> > OK, but if you try to record from a protected channel, the
> > backend will hang or crash.  With these problems, it just isn't
> > anywhere close to being "wife-friendly".  I can't teach her how to

     If you do this with a Tivo and a DishTV reciever you will get the
same result. You just need to set up your channels properly and hide 
all the ones that will give your configuration fits.

> > use it, because invariably she'll try to record a protected
> > channel, crash it, think she wrecked it, and not want to touch
> > it for the rest of her life.
> 
> Can't you remove those channels entirely?

    There's a reasonably nice interface to do this within MythWeb.

    Personally I just do manual SQL...