[mythtv-users] mythmote App and minimyth

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Thu Aug 16 04:22:31 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Raymond Wagner <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:
> On 8/13/2012 02:41, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
>>
>> Am 2012-08-13 08:17, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger:
>>>
>>> Am 2012-08-13 02:49, schrieb Paul Bender:
>>>
>>>> I have no problem with you asking the questions at either location. In
>>>> this case there is a very good chance that your problem is due to some
>>>> configuration and patching in MiniMyth that makes it possible for an
>>>> application on the frontend as well as an application on the network to
>>>> communicate over the telnet socket. In addition, I have some
>>>> recollection that I saw a port change between 0.24 and 0.25, but I could
>>>> be wrong. Anyway, for more targeting archiving, having the discussion on
>>>> the MiniMyth forum might be better.
>>
>>
>>
>> this is the issue:
>>
>> http://code.google.com/p/mythmote/issues/detail?id=69
>>
>> without real solution, afai see.
>
>
> There is no real solution, because there is no real problem to solve.
>
> http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket#IP_Address_availability
>
> If MiniMyth actually does not provide a copy of mythtv-setup to allow users
> to blank that setting and allow mythfrontend to listen everywhere, then this
> is a fine example of why not including applications is a terrible design
> choice.  I realize it is designed to take up a minimum of storage, but
> mythtv-setup is all of 360KB.
>
> Also for what it's worth, it's not a telnet socket, and should not be used
> with telnet clients.

The minimyth home page says "MiniMyth is a small Linux distribution
that turns a diskless computer into a MythTV frontend and slave
backend"

If it can run as a slave backend, surely it must be possible to run
mythtv-setup?


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