![]() ![]() You can find a full list of keyboard keys and functions on the Keybindings page. You will need to setup your Remote Control to suit. In reality, how these map to physical keyboard keys will depend on how your particular machine was configured. The remote button icons represent common names for remote control keys. If you have made changes there, this chart will not match your system. The mappings of keyboard keys to MythTV functions can be changed in the frontend setup (Setup->Edit Keys). If you use an infra red remote, the infra red button presses are mapped to keyboard keys, which are then mapped to MythTV functions. Either way, the functions are mapped to keyboard keys. The frontend can be controlled with a keyboard or an IR remote control. The good news is the 80/20 rule applies - you can do 80% of your day to day things with MythTV on about 20 keys on your remote. MythTV users will also cite the much needed WAF or GAF that is, Wife/Girlfriend Acceptance Factor. This is a compromise between functionality and simplicity-especially since the average Remote Control only has about 40 to 50 keys (10 of which are numbers), while MythTV has over 100 keyboard functions. MythTV has been designed for the "ten foot Interface": it should be driveable from your sofa ten feet (3 metres) away. Whether your screen will look exactly like the screenshots in this manual will vary depending on the theme you have chosen. You can also set up a frontend remotely on a laptop or desktop computer and use the keyboard to control it. If your frontend is set up on a large TV screen in the living room you will want to have a remote control to use with it. Most of the daily usage of MythTV is done from the frontend with a remote control or keyboard. We will describe things which can only be done with, or will work differently with, an expanded configuration. MythTV is a capable, powerful, and most of all expandable system. Hopefully, it will also identify things which can be done more than one way, and point out the most effective choice (and why you might want to do it another way anyway). This section explains what you can do with a MythTV unit, how the parts work and how to control them. 13.12 Controlling the mythfrontend via netcat (0.19).13.2 Editing, Transcoding, Removing Commercials.13 Topics to be moved to a separate document. ![]()
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