Mark Smith wrote: >Tom Metro wrote: >> ...as long as you are using "mythtv" as your >> password (which apparently is common) and running MySQL on the MythTV >> server, it'll work in the default configuration. > > I think that's only true if you've granted remote access to the tables from > the MediaMVP - at least I had to do that in order to get it to work (it > wasn't the default configuration).
You mean grant access to the MediaMVP host in MySQL? Yes, I suppose that would be a step required in some setups. Perhaps granting access to all LAN machines is common for those running myth-frontend. I imagine the way MySQL is configured varies a fair bit from one MythTV installation to the next. As I mentioned before, the Ubuntu packaging generates a random password, and by the looks of it: mysql> select host,user from user where user='mythtv'; +-----------+--------+ | host | user | +-----------+--------+ | % | mythtv | | localhost | mythtv | +-----------+--------+ 2 rows in set (0.00 sec) grants access to any host. mysqld also seems to be set up for network communications by default. >> Is the error message...suggestive... > > It's not quite that helpful. It tells you that you need to set up SQL access, > but doesn't really give you any clues as to how to go about doing that. Well, I didn't expect much more than that. At least the user knows that something needs to be configured in mvpmc and it isn't just something broken. They should be able to plug "SQL" into the wiki and get some useful help (hopefully). >> More importantly, do database parameters need to be added to the GUI >> setup screens? As I recall, those settings aren't in there yet. > > I would imagine that's of limited use, since the GUI settings are lost when > you do a hard reboot or power off. I'm taking a longer term view, with the assumption that eventually the settings will get saved to flash (as mentioned by some of the developers as a future possibility) or to a file over the network (as currently supported). The idea being that all mvpmc configuration that can be done via the GUI should be done that way, thus eliminating the need for most command line options in a typical setup. If flash storage isn't being used, the packaging system that installs the back-end services for mvpmc (including generating a dongle.bin.conf) should also setup some mechanism for mvpmc to store the settings file over the network. (Currently this can be done by mounting a file system on the MVP, and using an appropriate command line switch. I've been pondering a hack that would permit saving settings via TFTP, which eliminates the need to mount a file system.) > I'd imagine it would be a bit of a pain to enter them > using the remote anyway. That was the biggest obstacle I thought of. I don't think the mvpmc GUI includes any widgets for text entry using the remote. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list Mvpmc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
