Posts about MythTV the great open source media center http://www.mythtv.org

If using the “MythCenter 1.4” theme for Myth Frontend then when looking at PVR recordings it only displays the “Short Date”. The short date is just the day and month, it does not include the year. Thus it looks like: … Continue reading

I use MythTV as my media center and PVR and Kodi on Windows as my frontend. In an effort to organize my recordings and utilize subtitles, I needed to update the MythTV recordings metadata. For my situation the only practical … Continue reading

Starting around the 23rd of October 2020 I found that my MythTV add-on was not working in Kodi running on Windows 10. It would hang either on importing guide or it would show nothing but not work either. I had … Continue reading

After upgrading my MythTV server from 0.25 to 0.29 as described in MythTV on CentOS 7 I found that the last tab for MythWeb, “Backend Status” was giving me a: 404 Not Found It really had me stumped and then I … Continue reading

This exercise is driven by a need to connect my MythTV’s 3 HDHomeRun network tuners to my MythTV server. This is filled with various challenges:My MythTV runs in a VM on a VMware ESXi 6.0 server The ESXi server only … Continue reading

I have been doing some work with MythTV and the Kodi MythTV addon. This has been around upgrading my MythTV from 0.25 to 0.29 which is quite a steps and I have had to go back and forth between versions. … Continue reading

MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed … Continue reading

I have an aging MythTV frontend and separate backend that I need to upgrade. The plan of attack is to create a new system, get it running smoothly and work out a migration strategy. Then once the new system is … Continue reading

My kit for this exercise is: SonicWall: TZ 215, (SonicOS Enhanced 5.9.1.10-1o) SonicWall setup This section creates the SonicWall stuff that takes the VLAN from the VMware ESX host and connects it to a SonicWall interface port. To keep everything … Continue reading

This post is mostly focused around getting a Microsoft MCE, Media Centre Edition, infra-red remote working with a MythTV frontend. However I will be covering as much as I can about about generic issues. My setup has Fedora 16 running … Continue reading