[mythtv-users] Remote Remote GH

[Josh]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 8:55 AM, Chase Douglas  
<chasedouglas.lists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:31 PM, Josh wrote:
>
>> On Jul 27, 2008, at 10:59 PM, Brad DerManouelian
>> <myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2008, at 7:51 PM, Josh White wrote:
>>>
>>>> I actually found accidentally when I entered the search string
>>>> "navigation" but if you do a search for "mythtv" it should be the
>>>> only hit.
>>>
>>> For anyone else following along, the application is called "Remote
>>> Remote GH"
>>>
>>>> when I try to connect to the frontend with the iPhone app, it says
>>>> "connection dropped" and when I try to telnet from a terminal  
>>>> window
>>>> on another machine on my network, it says "connection refused."  I
>>>> installed "telnetd" on the machine, and restarted it, but I have
>>>> done nothing else to "enable" telent.  I can't say that I have much
>>>> experience with telnet, so if you have any pointers here, I would
>>>> appreciate it.
>>>
>>> http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-11.html#ss11.6
>>> The first thing in the documentation says, "To use this feature you
>>> must first enable it in Settings>General>General" so I recommend you
>>> do that.
>>>
>>> telnetd is a telnet server which has nothing to do with controlling
>>> the mythtv frontend and you should probably get rid of it since
>>> it's a
>>> potential security risk.
>>>
>>> -Brad
>>>
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>>
>> Thanks, you were right, all I had to do was enable network control
>> where you indicated. It now works.
>>
>> It would be nice if the app had a way of storing frontend ip  
>> addresses
>> so you could quickly switch without manually entering numbers.  It
>> would definitely help with the W.A.F.  Perhaps a later version of the
>> app will include that.
>
> If you are interested in an iPhone / iPod Touch MythTV remote that
> will keep track of backends and frontends, try out MyMote. It also
> automatically finds your backends and frontends through UPnP. You can
> get more information at http://trac2.assembla.com/mymote/wiki.
>
> P.S.: In the interest of full disclosure, I am the developer for  
> MyMote.
>
> Thanks
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Thanks, I'll check it out when it appears in the app store.  It sucks,  
but I'd really rather avoid jailbreaking at this point.