Here's a very simple method to add a shutdown button (that is a remote/keyboard selectable menu item) to the main menu in Mythtv. Useful if you want a quick and dirty way to shutdown your mythbox without sshing into it or bringing-up a shell and doing it from the box. I'll post a screenshot as soon as my webhost come back up.

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I'll also say that I'm using the classic theme option.

nano (or your fav text editor) /usr/share/mythtv/theme/classic/mainmenu.xml

Add the following wherever you want the button to appear

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

isnt that already under the default knoppmyth menu?

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R5F1 - Dell P4 2.4Ghz 500MB - PVR250 x 2 - GeForce FX 5200 - Onboard sound/NIC 80GB ATA/250GB ATA/400GB SATA

Is it? I'm using R5A15.1 and I had to add it myself... I downloaded A16 but haven't installed it yet.

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Retired KM user (R4 - R6.04); friend to LH users.

I think you're talking past each other. There is a halt button in the default config which has been there as long as I can remember, but it's not on the top level menu, it's on the KnoppMyth sub-menu...