MythTV Backend update

[cpg]

One of the things I am interested in is MythTV, as many of you in our community.

As Amahi is a server, the more "proper" thing to do is to focus on the mythtv backend. We have had a Mythtv backend for a while and we have in in beta in Amahi 5.

I had looked at MythTV a while back (and before that I used it for a long time before). Last year I looked and it was not quite ready for primetime. I decided to take an in depth look at MythTV today.

It ain't pretty:

Pros:

- The screen quality is MOST excellent, even better than before, if it's possible
- The effects in the on screen menu are really very very nice
- New themes (nice)
- Lots of new features, like getting icons for stations easily, etc.

Cons:

- Lots of new features
- Setup is quite a nightmare, at least with my HDHomeRun, with manual mapping of channels to the guide (this may be different with other hardware)
- Mythweb has not improved much lately, though some setup can be done on it, which is nice

MythTV is such a nice project, ... though the complexity is still high ...

[pjcrux]

MythTV Backend has been moved to Beta. If you are a Beta tester you have the ability to install this app. Please be aware though that this app requires more than the one click install to configure. There are additional command line todo's once this app is installed plus the configuration of the backend after installation.

This is not for the faint of heart. I helped drive the development of this app and I love it. However this will take you more than an hour after install to setup.