[mythtv-users] Preferred method for remote access?

[Mark Boyum]

On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Bob Long <bob at oblong.com.au> wrote:
> William Uther wrote,
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>>   What is the currently preferred method for remote access to a mythtv
>> box?  I'm specifically after a solution for this use case:
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>>   I'm out of an evening, and the SO says 'did you remember to record
>> *insert favourite show here*'?  (There will be no comment on why this is my
>> job.)
>>   Having forgotten to mark it for recording, I pull out my phone to so
>> mark it.  I use connectBot to set up a secure connection to my mythtv
>> server, and then I ...
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>> So, what is the currently preferred method for remote access to a mythtv
>> box?  Is mythweb fixed (it has been a few years since I used that solution)?
>>  Is there another option?
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> I don't know what problems Mythweb may have had, but I successfully use it
> on a 0.21 system.
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> Bob Long
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I do not recall how it is done but I set mythweb to display the
desktop version on my phone.  It has worked quite well in exactly the
scenario you laid out.
-Mark