[mythtv-users] Remote Remote GH

[Chase Douglas]

On Jul 28, 2008, at 10:01 AM, Josh wrote:

> 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.

Just so you know, you don't need to jailbreak your iPhone to install  
MyMote. I am currently using Ad Hoc distribution which is an Apple  
provided legitimate distribution method. It's more cumbersome because  
you must e-mail the device ID to the developer and they must recompile  
the app to include the device, but I am happy to do so and have  
provisioned about 20 devices for people now. I've got it all detailed  
at http://trac2.assembla.com/mymote/wiki.

Having said that, if anyone has a jailbroken device they can install  
it without MyMote needing to be provisioned for them.

Thanks,
Chase