[mythtv-users] Controlling myth from the deck

[Bill Williamson]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Yan Seiner <yan at seiner.com> wrote:

> I have some speakers and wifi on the deck.  During the summer, I run
> mythmusic on a frontend in the house, and pipe the music outside.
>
> Controlling it is a challenge though.  Last summer I used a laptop, which
> sucked.  You can't see a laptop screen in bright sunlight and running into
> the house to change the volume or skip a track sucks.
>
> Sunlight visible LCDs are way too expensive and completely unrealistic for
> this, so I'm looking for something really basic; an old reflective laptop
> would be ideal if I could figure out a way to hook wifi up to it....
>
> Is anyone doing this?  If so, how?
>


I got a pinnacle soundbridge which connects to any UPnP music server over
wifi
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