Mythweb

MythWeb is a web-based administration utility to manage and schedule MythTV recordings, and ships with LinuxMCE. You can access MythWeb at 192.168.80.1/mythweb.

Mythweb is useful for managing and scheduling your recordings. It has a build in program guide that allows you to set recording schedules up to 2 weeks in advance, as well as option to set up recurrent recording (same channel every week, same channel at the same time every day, etc). This is probablty the fastest interface for seting up recordings.

Hints and Tips

External access to recorded shows You may want to be able to watch your recorded shows while you are away from home. There are a few things that you must do to enable this functionallity: 1- Setup your LMCE install to allow outside access. This is beyond the scope of this article, but only involves enabling outside access in the web admin, and setting up port forwarding on any routers on the external network. Once this is done, you should be able to point any browser to your_ip_address/mythweb. Also, currently mythweb only offers the recordings as downloads, but the next version will also have a streaming engine.

2- Once outside access is set up, you must fix a simple bug. There is a symbolic link that points to the wrong recording directory. We can fix this by deleting the bad symbolic link, and making a new one:

cd /var/www/mythweb/data
sudo rm recordings
sudo ln -s /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1 recordings

Please note that this works for shows recorded with the core. If you have tuner cards across several MD's, I'm not sure what the best solution would be.