[mythtv-users] Add channels remotely

Raymond Wagner raymond at wagnerrp.com
Thu Oct 4 14:17:27 UTC 2012


On 10/4/2012 09:34, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> 2012/10/4 Brian Long <briandlong at gmail.com>:
>> On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Josu Lazkano <josu.lazkano at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I have a MythTV backend/frontend on a remote place, and I want to make
>>> a new scan on actuall frequencies (there are new channels on my
>>> provider).
>>>
>>> How could I do that?
>>>
>>> My internet connection is slow so I can not log in as "ssh -X
>>> root at server".
>>
>>
>> I would have recommended starting a VNC server on the remote host, then on
>> your client "vncviewer -via user at hostname hostname:1".  This will tell VNC
>> to set up a SSH tunnel and then run VNC traffic over the tunnel.  In
>> high-latency environments (i.e. east coast to west coast), it's much nicer
>> dealing with VNC vs. standard X.
>
> Thanks Brian, the backend has not any desktop, so I can not access by VNC.

So run 'vncserver' to start an instance of Xvnc and make it a "desktop".


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