Re: Controlling MythTV from the network?

["dermot_bradley" <bradley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Kim Wall <kim@...> wrote:
>
> Make use of MythTV's network architecture - build yourself a nice
> quiet machine (or an Xbox or mac mini) to sit near the TV and run
> mythfrontend locally.  Use an IR dongle with lirc, or a suitable
> wireless keyboard (or both) for control, and output VGA to the
> plasma.  Job jobbed.

Yupe. That's basically what I've been working on for a while - a Myth
backend in the rack with several DVB-T cards and the 2 MyTV frontends
in lounge and bedroom, both with a PVR250 connected to a Sky box
(planning to use RS232 and RF2 to control channel change). So backend
records stuff off Freeview even if frontends are off - to record Sky
backend will use Wake-on-LAN to start up one of the Frontends to
record Sky via SCART->PVR250 MPEG encoder...