First, a disclaimer: I am not a Linux expert, nor a clean coder. I'm just a dirty get-it-done kind of guy.

With that in mind, I have added some menu options to my install of KnoppMyth that have proven very helpful so that I don't have to hook a keyboard or mouse up to my box or VNC in or anything else. I can do it all from the menu.

First New Option: Restart Backend

This has proven invaluable in the latest install because of its occasional issue of failing to properly start the backend (unless this was fixed and I wasn't made aware).

You can add this option to any of the menus. I put it in the KnoppMyth menu (/usr/share/mythtv/knoppmyth.xml).

Here's the code to add:



Second New Option: Go to MythTV Setup (the one where you can configure the input sources and so forth)

This has proven valuable in only a few instances - mainly when the channel lineup has been changed. I also put this in the KnoppMyth menu (/usr/share/mythtv/knoppmyth.xml). I put a corresponding "Jump to Frontend" in the MythTV Setup menu (/usr/share/mythtv/knoppmyth.xml).

Here's the code for the menu item to go to the setup file:


The code for /etc/mythtv/gotosetup.sh:


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Here's the code for the return type option in the MythTV setup menu:


Code for /etc/mythtv/gotofrontend.sh:


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I hope this helps someone. If anyone thinks that doing this the way I did will cause some type of problem (it works great for me), please let me know.

I got sick of going into the media library to watch recordings and videos so I made those options display above the "Watch TV" option on the main menu by copying the TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS and VIDEO_BROWSER entries from /usr/share/mythtv/library.xml to be the first entries in /usr/share/mythtv/mainmenu.xml