| Once I got in the DVR "way" I pretty much left live TV behind. I did try watching some sports live with Picture-in-Picture but I thought "What for?" I can record both and watch them in sequence, skipping the dull parts if I have to. There's really little need to watch any television live. Perhaps "Breaking News", but I'm not likely to know it's breaking when it is. And with a body of recordings, there's no need to channel surf to find something interesting to watch.
I use MythWeb, a browser-based interface to MythTV, to do all my scheduling. A set of basic rules select sports I like based on certain search terms, other programs daily or weekly, or at any time they can be found, like some movies I want to see some day. Since the available schedule is available to 2 weeks out, I check in every 12 days to look ahead for the next 2 weeks. MythTV takes all that and figures out how to keep my 2 tuners busy. Really, if I miss anything, I have plenty more. ;-)
MythTV depends on a database. It would be a real hassle to recreate all my scheduling rules and configuration. I use the mythdump script from below, and rsync to maintain the latest copies of my database and all system files on another machine.
I'm a big fan of monitoring, and with GKrellm I can tell what my MythTV box is doing, from my main computer. Handy to see that a recording or commercial flagging is in progress, or to watch disk space. The display can be run on the monitored machine, or a remote machine.
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