On 7/20/05, Josh Burks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/20/05, Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > <snip> > > What disappoints me about this answer is that I want to ship two > > new frontend machines to my parents. Up until this little roadblock > > all I needed to edit in their config to put the machines on their > > network is the info in the .mythtv/mysql.txt file to point to their > > backend server and the machines should come up and see the backend. > > This will allow them to watch programs and use the machine, but they > > won't be able to shut the machines off as they won't have access to > > this one command. Since these machines have no keyboards, they cannot > > type in the command themselves. Fixing this means getting remote > > access to their network through ssh, which I have, so it can be fixed. > > (I think....but it may be a bit difficult...) > <snip> > > I may be speaking out my butt here, but I believe you can use APM and > configure it to catch the power button signals. By doing this they > could press the power button on the case, and APM would gracefully > shutdown the box.
or you could configure lirc to shut the machine down using a button on the remote control..... -- Pete _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
