[mythtv-users] Remote frontend

[Isaac Richards]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 04:07 am, Kevin Metz wrote:
> I've got mythtv up and running and its great. I can watch TV anywhere in
> the house now. Sweet! So, I got daring and decided to load up the mythdvd
> and mythvideo plugins. Got them compiled and installed. Ran mythfrontend on
> the same machine and there pops the new options on the menu. I try out dvd,
> it plays my dvd. I check out the video's...they 're all there. I'm a happy
> camper. So, I trot over to my laptop, run up the frontend, and I don't see
> dvd or video's. All I see is the same 'tv or setup' options I saw before.
> So I restart the backup, no change.

Yes, installing software on one machine doesn't make it install on others, 
generally.

> I poke around some, read the list, 
> nothing. So, is tv the only plugin that is allowed to be displayed on
> remote frontend's?

It's the only one that does everything for you automatically, yes.  No one has 
contributed any code to make the various plugins network aware like the TV 
stuff is.  Are you volunteering?

Isaac