My Adventures with MythTV, MythWeb, MyMote and MythMote

Edit 25-June I gave up on the iPhone remote app and instead luckily had an Android device so I downloaded the Android equivalent, MythMote, which worked perfectly. Got everything going on an Asus N10J netbook, and all seems to be working great. I've set up a bunch of recordings, and watched a few shows. I still have to configure an external HDD as the built in one is only 160GB, but it doesn't look too hard. ----------------- Wanted to get some notes down about this because I am struggling to get this set up. It seems like it should be easy, but I'm stuffed if I know what I'm doing wrong. So I downloaded the 0.25 32 bit Mythbuntu ISO image and restored it onto a netbook (ASUS N10J - with NVidia card and HDMI connection.) All smooth so far. Then configured my system and got through the basic setup wizards, backend and frontend and did the sound and video tests, great! Then I wanted to get MyMote going, and this is where I've struck trouble. I'm not new to Linux, and I know my way around MySQL, telnet and so on, but I struck out when it came to getting this going. The first hurdle was getting MyMote to see my backend. This involved updating my router domain to local (from BoB) and setting my iPhone DNS setting to local. No worries. Then when I go into MyMote and press on the backend name it just sits there looking for frontends. Now I'm think it is trying to resolve a frontend name that my local domain knows nothing about, but I'm buggered if I can find the name of it or where MyMote is getting that info from so I can change it. So in an effort to find out what the name was I've tried a bunch of things. Tried looking at this: http://backendIP:6544/Myth/GetConnectionInfo Tried downloading the source code and looking though it for the database table name, or XML file, or something to point to where it might be. Tried running this: avahi-browse -ta Then I wondered if it was not able to connect, so ran. netstat -na grep 654[3-4] Then I found a link with a bunch of remotes, such as the MythWeb. So gave that a go, and same problem, in fact bit better error handling, so it reports, "No frontends have been selected.". But there is no front end to select, at least I can't see one. Then found a link where the guy put an entry in /etc/hosts, and it came up. So did that and I could select a frontend from MythWeb! Getting somewhere!!! :D But still no frontend in MyMote. :( So I'm stuffed if I know why MythWeb can find it on a separate machine but MyMote can't. Maybe it is trying to connect to the name without the domain. References: Main MyMote pages: http://mymote.wikispot.org/ Issue reports: http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2008-August/231615.html http://www.mythtv.org/pipermail/mythtv-users/2011-May/315710.html http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=870840 MySQL configuration for MythTV http://www.mythtv.org/docs/mythtv-HOWTO-6.html#ss6.2 Source code for MyMote: http://mymote.wikispot.org/Development Bunch of remotes (near the bottom): http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket