Just got my system installed and had a few things that I couldnt figure out how to change.

Remote - I picked the wrong one but saw to
"Run lirc-reconfig.sh as root to change your remote"
I quit myth tv and got onto the desktop, and opened up xterm and later bash after a reboot. typed sudo root, then proceded to try every password I used in the setup process but none worked. Is there a default password or something in there? The root password I entered in setup did work when prompted after the install.

Channels -
In the setup there were a bunch of channels that pulled into the system. In my eagerness to get this thing running, I didn't bother to delete all the channels that I never watch. How can I get rid of them now?

Picture quality -
I am running a shuttle with 768 mb of ram, an Athlon 3000+ and a hauppage 150-mce, but the quality of the images isn't all that great. The line also goes through 1 splitter if that matters. Is this the quality I should expect to see, or could there be some configuring that I still need to do?


Thanks for the advice!

Just run "sudo lirc-reconfig.sh" as your normal user. If I remember right, you will just need to enter your normal user's password and lirc-reconfig.sh will run as root.



I use mythweb or phpMyAdmin to make the channels not "visible".
Just point your browser to the backend's "public" IP address.

Ben

Re: picture quality. You can run some denoise filters during playback that (I think) helps picture quality quite a bit.

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Us ... ck_filters

ceenvee - thanks for the tip about filters, I tried the inverse one and it worked, so I will spend some more time playing with these.

Ben - I still can't get sudo to work. Here is what I did during setup

Enter User name: boxen
Enter password: Bill
Enter Root password: Ted
Enter MythTv in Realm MythTV: ExcellentAdventure

Now when the machine rebooted and began configuring it asked for the admin password, I entered Ted, and everything was fine.

yet when I try any of these passwords, it keeps saying they are wrong.

*dont worry, these are not my real passwords


MythWeb - This is my one and only myth box, no seperate front end. Can I just point a browser from another machine to this one then? I didn't have any luck with lynx on the myth box - was just going to point to localhost, but I've never used lynx before.

bobertv,

if you're logged in as "boxen" you have 2 options:

1 - Sudo Method

type "sudo lirc-...."
when prompted for a password use "Bill"

OR

2 - su Method

type "su"
when prompted for a password use "Ted"
then type "lirc-...." at the "#" sign

As for MythWeb, it looks horrible in lynx. I believe u should be able to point your browser to your backend. Most likely you're using private IP space so your "client" machine should also be on the same private ip network. As an example, if I use the 10.0.0.X subnet, in order to access my channel configs I would use the URL:

http://10.0.0.4/mythweb/settings/channels

from any machine on the same private subnet.

Hope that helps,
Ben