[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

[Raymond Wagner]

On 8/16/2012 03:43, Nick Rout wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
>>> On 8/13/2012 02:41, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Am 2012-08-13 08:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>>>>>
>>>>> Am 2012-08-13 02:49, schrieb Paul Bender:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I have no problem with you asking the questions at either location. In
>>>>>> this case there is a very good chance that your problem is due to some
>>>>>> configuration and patching in MiniMyth that makes it possible for an
>>>>>> application on the frontend as well as an application on the network to
>>>>>> communicate over the telnet socket. In addition, I have some
>>>>>> recollection that I saw a port change between 0.24 and 0.25, but I could
>>>>>> be wrong. Anyway, for more targeting archiving, having the discussion on
>>>>>> the MiniMyth forum might be better.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> this is the issue:
>>>>
>>>> http://code.google.com/p/mythmote/issues/detail?id=69
>>>>
>>>> without real solution, afai see.
>>>
>>>
>>> There is no real solution, because there is no real problem to solve.
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket#IP_Address_availability
>>>
>>> If MiniMyth actually does not provide a copy of mythtv-setup to allow users
>>> to blank that setting and allow mythfrontend to listen everywhere, then this
>>> is a fine example of why not including applications is a terrible design
>>> choice.  I realize it is designed to take up a minimum of storage, but
>>> mythtv-setup is all of 360KB.
>>>
>>> Also for what it's worth, it's not a telnet socket, and should not be used
>>> with telnet clients.
>>
>> The minimyth home page says "MiniMyth is a small Linux distribution
>> that turns a diskless computer into a MythTV frontend and slave
>> backend"
>>
>> If it can run as a slave backend, surely it must be possible to run
>> mythtv-setup?
>
> To answer my own question, mythtv-setup is included in the minimyth
> rootfs tarball that I downloaded today.

I have no personal experience with MiniMyth, I was merely responding to 
this comment.

http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2012-August/338096.html

On 8/11/2012 04:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
 > What is the "local backend" ?
 > afaik there is no mythtv-setup on minimyth.