[mythtv-users] MythTV and the "average" user...

Kevin Kuphal kkuphal at gmail.com
Tue May 20 18:03:58 UTC 2008


On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:45 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:

>  On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:55:35AM -0500, Sean Goodpasture wrote:
> > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Nick F <nikos.f at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > >  On 5/15/08, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> So, the question is has MythTV with say Mythbuntu
> > >> reached the point where once set-up a "average" person could run the
> > >> machine? Basicly I want something that will make life easier for her,
> > >> not frustrate her...
> > >
> > >
> > > I love Myth, and my (non-technie) wife is able to use it fine when I'm
> away
> > > for extended periods on business travel.
> > >
> > > The only thing is, my setup does crash every so often, and once my wife
> > > learnt the basics of restarting the frontend, and if needed ssh'ing to
> the
> > > backend to restart the backend when something went crazy there, it's
> been
> > > fine.
> > >
> > > My setup is not yet at the consumer appliance level.  I personally
> wouldn't
> > > do one for my (completely non-technical) mother.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > >
> > You need to get Monit up and running for monitoring the backend.  Not
> sure
> > what to do about the front end crashing, but my uptime normally runs in
> the
> > 30 day mark before the boxes feel like they need a reboot.
>
>    Mapping one of the remote buttons as a kill switch works very well.
> If any sort of frontend shenanigan is going on you just hit the kill
> switch and "reboot" the thing in a sort of Windows-esque fashion.


I'd recommend even using a very light window manager like fluxbox and having
a nice desktop image that says "Please wait while MythTV loads" or something
to that effect so they get the impression that things are happening.

Kevin
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