I have two different ways to control my MythTV frontend. One is the more traditional remote control over infrared using lirc. Another is software base controller; mythetomer.
1. Mythetomer remote control
2. Remote control using lirc
3. Restart frontend vith remote
1. Mythetomer remote control
Mythetomer is a software remote control for MythTV. It can connect to the frontend using bluetooth or WLAN connection. To install it, visit the Mythetomer site and download the latest version of the server. You need to have Nokia Internet Tablet to run the client software.
At the moment, the latest version for Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is 0.3. You can download it with wget:
$ wget http://netti.nic.fi/~icewood/mythetomer/file.php?file=mythetomer_0.3-1_hardy_i386.deb
However, I recommend you to check the latest version from the web site. To install the package, run:
$ sudo dpkg -i mythetomer_0.3-1_hardy_i386.deb
Now mythetomer is installed, and you can start it:
$ mythetomer
To start mythetomer automatically at login, append it to the autostart file you created during frontend installation.
Note also that you need to enable network controlling from MythTV settings. Start MythTV and select 'Utilities / Setup' » 'Setup' » 'General' » 'Next' » 'Next' » 'Next' and select 'Enable Network Remote'. After changing the setting, you need to restart frontend in order to use the new feature.
Now all you need to do is download a mythetomer client to your Internet Tablet, make connection profile for the server, and connect. Visit Mythetomer website for more details.