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Connect MythTV and XBMC

XBMCMythTV script:

How to make your XBMC connect to the MythTV MySQL database:

Method 1)

it doesn't seem to work if you use the PHPmyadmin interface, so do it just hardcore from the CLI:

UPDATE mysql.user 
SET password=OLD_PASSWORD('mythtv') 
WHERE user='mythtv' 
AND host='someip'; 


Method 2)

This allows the xbox to connect remotely to the server running the mythtv backend. Run it on the backend in mysql command line.

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@"192.168.1.60" identified by "MyPassword"; 

The IP is that of the XBOX.

Remember that XBMC does not support the DB-connection interface version of the latest MythTV versions, yet.....