always best.
It appears that MythTV v0.21 may be a little on the immature side still, or maybe it was just the idiot at the keyboard. Either way, it appeared to me to be too unstable to pass either my meager expectations, much less sidling up to the ol WAF.
Speaking of the Wife Acceptance Factor, I havent quite figured out how to define that yet. My thoughts would be to have her be able to use the device daily without fail. We all know thats pie in the sky, but where is the happy middle ground? Being that the device will likely end up in the game room(with the hdtv), I dont think it will be the one that gets used most(I think Ill either keep a TW DVR downstairs for now), but look at replacing it with a remote frontend in short order.
So my thoughts currently run along these lines, though I am sure they will change as she starts to use the device(ie, it will likely be downstairs at least until I get the HDTV):
1) Low learning curve(if it takes too long to explain something techincal, my wonderful wife quickly looses interest), the basics(manipulating live TV, recording, watching recordings,maintaing recordings) must be very easy. Advanced functions are, for now, exempt as for my WAF, I only need it to be as functional as the TW boxen
2) stable! It must be at least as, but preferably more, stable than the TW boxes(he thinks as he looks at the dead one)
So, I guess, in the end, thats my target for WAF, the ability to replace her TW DVR with the Myth box with no loss of functionality and little to no training(MAX: 15-30 mintues with the remote/keyboard). Any functionality provided on top of that is cake for now.
Now, on to todays news, I moved back to MythTV 0.20 after a frustrating time with 0.21. I have all the channels tuned, but I cannot seem to get any to lock right now. Thats the current issue Im working on, it looks like it may be a simple configuration issue, which make sense;-) PEBCAK. I hoping to have all that sewed up this evening and move on to more interesting stuff tomorrow, I guess we will see.
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Man, I feel your pain! 3 years ago, I had my MCE box upstairs in the loft, connected to a 15" monitor and an old 19" TV, with absolutely no hope of ever being able to move it into the family room as the primary source of everything. I had resigned myself to the fact that it was just going to be my hobby, and that was it. It took a good year and a half, of tweaking, tinkering and swearing until I got it to the point where I realized that it ws a viable alternative to the DVR, and then there was a 3 month overlap of running both items. Finally, once we bought the Logitech Harmony remote, everything fell into place. Do not underestimate the importance of a single button to do everything! As soon as I set up the Harmony with one button labeled "Watch MCE" one labeled "Watch Cable Box" and another "Use XBox 360", everything fell into place. Then, when the comskip application started working properly, Jen started using the MCE box regularly and I was able to dump TWCs dvr on their doorstep. Of course, anytime there was any burp, Jen immediately blamed the MCE setup. However, 9 times out of 10, it was a TWC fuck up! When we had the TWC DVR, everytime it rebooted for no reason (3-4 times per week!) I reminded Jen to remember that when we had our MCE setup!
Once I get everything up and running, I want you to come over and see it. Sit down and use it. I'll be completely honest about the stability factor and things like that. I have an extra MCE license somewhere, in case you want to even consider going that direction (You really need to get over that prejudice.) I'll probably be setting up my old computer in the attic and feeding my 2 XBoxes off of that driving those TVs. We'll see though.
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