[mythtv-users] Preferred method for remote access?

Mike Holden mythtv at mikeholden.org
Wed Mar 28 00:32:55 UTC 2012


Joe Hickey wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 7:17 AM, William Uther
> <willu.mailinglists at cse.unsw.edu.au> wrote:
>>  ii) use a web browser on my phone to connect to mythweb over a
>> tunnel, find the list of shows and mark the offending show for
>> recording, or
>
>>  ii) was my preferred solution for a while.  Then I had a problem
>> where I kept fighting with mythweb about whether I wanted the
>> mobile display or not.  If I accessed mythweb with my phone then I
>> got the mobile display and it stupidly remembered that setting
>> when I next tried to access it from work on a full-sized browser.
>>  The only way to reset that was to do some complex session
>> resetting magic.  I stopped using mythweb.  Things may have
>> improved since then.
>
> IIRC, I vaguely remember running into this issue and I discovered
> mythweb "remembers" the mobile vs. desktop setting in the session
> info
> which is somehow tied to the authentication data you used to log in
> with.  If you use a different username/password on the desktop
> system
> vs. the phone, the sessions do not conflict.

This is how I do it too, and it works fine.

Actually, even using the same username/password, *most* stuff seems
to work fine. The only screen I had any issues with was the upcoming
recordings, which displayed the header and footer, but no programs.
-- 
Mike Holden




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