Comments on: Manage Your MythTV Box Remotely Using NX

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sun, 29 May 2011 01:38:45 +0000

I have a laptop as my mythfrontend with the vga out into my sony tv. When I use VNC I am able to control the screen in a functional but laggy way… When I setup NX as described, connecting to the frontend gives me a new/second front end screen that actually changes channels because I can hear the audio of the tv changing. However the first/original mythfrontend menu remains on screen and is not under my control.

What’s the trick or am I missing something obvious like NX is cannot be used as a vnc replacement in this manner. Perhaps I have to disable vnc on the frontend?

ahh I suspect it will be something like I have to start my onscreen session/display via NX and detach from it in a similar manner to the console tool “screen”.

suggestions? hints?

By: Pablo

Pablo — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:38:38 +0000

For those of you that are not able to log in as root, here is the fix:

Edit /usr/NX/etc/server.cfg and change EnableAdministratorLogin = “1”

I haven’t had this problem with Mythbuntu, but other regular Ubuntu users have reported this problem.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 14:21:50 +0000

Update: The Frontend now shows up as well. Both on Windows and Linux machines. Great tool all around.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:50:52 +0000

Just saying thanks for this very helpful article. It got me up and running in no time. The way I use it now is doing the ripping on the backend machine. Editing all the tags with EasyTag I do on another machine which is connected to the backend via the nomachine client. Launching the Frontend though on the client has not been succesful.