[mythtv-users] Ideas for family proofing the mythbox

[Craig Van Tassle]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:58:45 +1300
Nick Rout <nick.rout at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Zooka <mythtv at fitzy.org> wrote:
> > I'm looking for ways on how you have family proofed and made more
> > friendly your mythbox for the non-techie kids or spouse.
> >
> > Here's what I have done so far on my combined FE/BE;
> >
> > - UPS to reduce power issues
> > - Auto power up if UPS runs out
> > - Disable power/reboot case buttons
> > - run mythfrontend in a loop so if it crashes it will restart
> > automatically
> 
> recently mine has started doing that by itself, I suspect this was put
> in somewhere in 0.24-fixes.
> 
> > - changed desktop background image to an informative message saying
> > 'congratulations, you crashed the mythbox.. please wait while it
> > restarts'
> > - change Main Menu 'exit' button to something that isn't on the
> > remote
> > - parental levels set
> > - setup password set
> > - rewrote menu theme for easier navigation with regards to how we
> > use the mythbox
> > - any important events get emailed to me (mythfilldatabase, boot
> > disk space over 90% full, frontend crash, etc..)
> > - actually teach them how to do things such as scheduling, ad
> > skipping, music playing, etc..
> >
> >
> > That's all I can think of for now.  I look forward to hearing what
> > you have implemented.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Zooka.
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Mine had been doing that too, but I traced it down to a change in the
Mythbuntu scripts.