ConfigurationBeta

From MythTV Book

TODO: Remember to cover IR blasting here

Introduction

Now that we have MythTV installed, either as part of MythBuntu as described in The Easy Way: Installing MythBuntu, or on top of Ubuntu as described in The Hard Way: Installing MythTV From Source, its time to start configuring it. This chapter will use examples from Ubuntu, but while the MythBuntu screens look a little different the instructions should still apply.

Making a place for MythTV to store recordings

You are now ready to start configuring MythTV. The first decision you will have to make is where you are going to store your recordings. This will vary depending on how you installed Ubuntu or MythhBuntu -- if you used the automatic partition layout tool, then the root (/) partition will be using most of your disk, so you can put the recordings pretty much anywhere you want. On the other hand, if you configured the disks in your MythTV machine manually during install, then you should have created a large file system that uses most of the disk. We typically create a large /home partition and store everything there, although a lot of people use a file system called /data/mythtv. The default is /mnt/store. You need to create a directory within that partition for the recordings to be stored in too. You can do this via the graphical interface or from the command line. For example:

$ mkdir ~/myth-recordings

The "~" part means your home directory, so since we're logged in as the myth user, we've just created the /home/myth/myth-recordings directory using mkdir.

Running the Setup Program