[mythtv-users] MythWeb Remote Control extention. (OT?)

MagicITX magicitx at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 05:57:58 UTC 2005


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On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 22:08:11 -0500, don <don at donbrown.ca> wrote:
> When I first heard of this extention to the MythWeb interface I got excited
> that I would be able to use my PocketPC as a remote control for myth (It's a
> Dell X5 and the IR is not strong enough to use one of the avaliable Remote
> Control programs unless I'm 2 feet from the reciever).
> 
> However, I've not been able to get this extention to work properly.
> The webpage appears fine, but clicking on the buttons does nothing.
> 
> For those of you who have not checked out this module, it uses 'sendxevent' in
> from a CGI script to send key presses to the 'CurrentWindow' on :0.0
> 
> If I run the script that gets called from the CGI script as mythtv (the user
> logged on to kdm and the preson running mythfrontend), it works fine.
> 
> When I run it from the web page, I get the error:
> Xlib: connection to "mythtv.mydomain:0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: No protocol specified
> Can't open DISPLAY.
> 
> Googling has implied this is an X security issue, and that it should be solved
> by running 'xauth +' (as mythtv).  However, this did not solve the problem for me.
> 
> Hoping someone can help out,
> Don
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Tim
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