[mythtv-users] Design a low cost, dual tuner, one box solution.

Paul Gardiner lists at glidos.net
Mon Jul 12 14:21:31 UTC 2010


Mike Perkins wrote:
> Another Sillyname wrote:
>>
>> The reason for no internet access needed is a lot of people who are
>> sight impaired are older and therefore are often non computer users,
>> if the box is not effectively 'self contained' it makes it too complex
>> for the likely user base.
>>
> There's no user intervention required to run the Radio Times grabber 
> followed by mythfilldatabase, the back end does all that. The system I 
> run here is effectively a "black box", there's no reason why anyone 
> else's shouldn't be set in a similar way.

But isn't the initial setup complicated? I found it hellish to set all
the xmltv tags correctly in the database when I first set it up. Of
course, I have a mysql script now that makes it easy, but I remember
being as confused as hell first time around.

Paul.



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