An It-slave in the digital saltmine

Background

In earlier articles I’ve described howto install mythbuntu and configure the backend

In this article I assume that you have a workin Xbox with a quit new version of XBMC.

Download xbmcmythtv

The xbmcmythtv is not being maintained anymore so the version downloadable from http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbmcmythtv/ does not work with newer versions of MythTV.

However, it is possible to grab a newer version by using CVS.

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@xbmcmythtv.cvs.sourceforge.net :/cvsroot/xbmcmythtv login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@xbmcmythtv.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/xbmcmythtv co -P xbmcmythtv

FTP it to your xbox  according to the README instructions.

Configure MySQL

The MySQL client that xbmcmythtv is using is not using the latest version of MySQL protocol, so you must tell MySQL that you will use the old style of password hash.

CREATE USER 'xbox'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'xbox';
GRANT ALL ON mythconverg.* TO 'xbox'@'%';
set password for 'xbox'@'%' = OLD_PASSWORD('xbox');

Setup the Xbox

In the Myth TV menu:

Primary host    <the ip of your backend host>

Protocol     40

In the MySQL menu:

User:   xbox

Password: xbox

Configure Samba

xbmcmythtv uses a samba share to read the recorded TV-shows. I created a new samba share and used the default settings at the Xbox.

In /etc/samba.smb.conf

[mythtv]

comment = MythTV Recordings

path = /var/lib/mythtv/recordings

public = yes

writable = no

create mask = 0777

directory mask = 0777

force user = nobody

force group = nogroup

Congratultaions, now you should have a working MythTV setup 😆

7 Responses to “MythTV Xbox frontend part3”

1. Thomas Lindeborg Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 10:16 pm

   Ganska smal läsarkrets va?

   // Thompa

2. peter Says:
   January 30th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

   En sisådär 6245 unika besökare under 2 månader

   /Peter

3. beeki Says:
   February 13th, 2009 at 11:31 pm

   thanks! i searched a long time to found an update for mythtvxbox thats speeks protocol 40 with my mythtv backend 🙂

4. ProGamingWorld Says:
   March 28th, 2009 at 4:09 pm

   Hey! Can I ask what’s this template you are using in your blog? thanks.

5. henry Says:
   May 13th, 2009 at 5:21 am

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