2016-01-07, 23:55
Perhaps it is just me, but I feel that mythfrontend is an excellent example of how not to design a 10 foot user interface. I find it cluttered, confusing and difficult without a keyboard.
My mythTV 'project' started on the expectation that I would use mythfrontend, as I was not aware of any alternative. It was soon apparent that (even if I liked it, which I didn't) it would not be tolerated by my wife and kids. Kodi, with the mythTV addon, saved the project and is my everyday front-end. I would not be using MythTV at all without it.
Mythweb and the Kodi MythTV addon are a pleasure to use. The addon is more elegant, convenient and feature rich than the interface on the cable company PVR it replaced. Mythweb is a bonus. And, it keeps getting better. I now have Kodi/Myth addon running beautifully on a Pi2 and on a Fire TV stick, both of which are crazy inexpensive, tiny, noiseless, virtually invisible and hardly draw any electricity. Can't do that with mythfrontend either.
My mythTV 'project' started on the expectation that I would use mythfrontend, as I was not aware of any alternative. It was soon apparent that (even if I liked it, which I didn't) it would not be tolerated by my wife and kids. Kodi, with the mythTV addon, saved the project and is my everyday front-end. I would not be using MythTV at all without it.
Mythweb and the Kodi MythTV addon are a pleasure to use. The addon is more elegant, convenient and feature rich than the interface on the cable company PVR it replaced. Mythweb is a bonus. And, it keeps getting better. I now have Kodi/Myth addon running beautifully on a Pi2 and on a Fire TV stick, both of which are crazy inexpensive, tiny, noiseless, virtually invisible and hardly draw any electricity. Can't do that with mythfrontend either.
