On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:07:19 -0500, Ben Giddings
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> An example of how well the TiVo remote is set
> up is the channel up/down buttons. When you're watching live TV,
> they're channel buttons. When you're in a list in the UI ("Now
> Playing" i.e. recorded showings for example) they scroll a page at a
> time.
Simple, go into mythweb and bind your chan up/down keys to page
up/down then edit your .lircrc so that your remote sends page up/down
for the chan up/down on your remote. That was one of the first things
I did myself.
> Hitting the TiVo button from anywhere in the UI will bring you
> back to the main menu. In Myth, I don't think you can do this.
Myth goes a lot further than that. Check out the jump points you can
bind remote presses to. (again in mythweb) You can jump to any area
within myth via a single remote press.
> Although I mapped the "Go/Home" button on my Silver Hauppauge remote to
> go to the TV recordings screen, it didn't work when I was in a setup
> screen.
That's because you need to explictly accept or reject settings.
> Finally, it was nice to be able to decide for myself what the
> remote buttons did, but the means of doing that was really awful. I
> either had to use the web interface to change the key bindings, or I
> had to use MySQL. Then I had to edit the lircrc text file to map
> remote control keypresses to keyboard keys. Ugh.
Yep it could be a lot more user friendly, however it's a pain you only
have to go trhough once.
> A second thing I missed from TiVo was the UI beeps and checkmarks. I
> think they're useful on the TiVo for two reasons. One is that the UI
> is slow on the underpowered TiVo processor, so you get immediate
> feedback when you do something. This isn't as important with MythTV
> and it's vastly more powerful processor. The other reason this is
> useful with the TiVo is that unlike a keyboard or mouse, you don't
> always know if the device received the keypress. I could see this
> being useful for Myth too.
Sound is useful, however doing UI beeps and the like gets fairly
compilcated if your audio hardware doesn't support multiple opens.
> Another minor thing I miss from my TiVo is the "screensaver". If you
> didn't hit a button for a while on the TiVo it would by default go back
> to monitoring Live TV after a while.
Myth will allow your existing screensaver to kick in as needed,
provided you have one of course.
> Finally, the only other thing I can think of that I really miss from my
> TiVo is the red light that tells me it's recording. It's nice to have
> some easy reassurance that your favourite show is really being
> recorded. I know that Myth isn't quite as flexible because this is a
> hardware thing, but some quick confirmation it's recording would be
> really handy.
Well, there's always the recordings screen and the system status
screen. However if you search the archives you can find info on how
to build hardware to add LEDs for recording status.
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