Ok - So, I've been waiting around for someone else to build a working mythtv front end for the wii, using home brew.

To say the least, I have up waiting and did it myself ;)

I took a basic Linux stack for the wii, found OOC deb packages and manually installed them into my SD card, tracked down and install all the required libs and well - to say the least - WIIIIIIII I have a mythtv front end, almost.

Unfortunatly, all the USB ethernet addaptors I have don't seem to work on the wii with linux - so I'll need to go pick up one of those to confirm that this is working. Once I get to confirm it's working, I'll preatty and clean it up build some tgz's of it and provide some details on how to install it.

Keep checking back here to see my progress!

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I went to pick up a USB->Ethernet net adapter for $9, but I wasn't sure it would work - Unfortunately, they didn't have any - So i'm delayed at this point.

My end goal is:

Have a LiveCD type boot from the SD Card so that No partitioning is required - problem with this is that the configuration would need to be saved - at this point, it appears as tho, the only config I would need to keep is the database connection details stored in /etc/mythtv/mysql.txt and /etc/mythtv/config.xml (which may not be correct).

So - Using the Homebrew Channel, you'll be able to load up the .elf file, which boots a LiveCD, the LiveCD will mount and check for a config on the SD Card which will then create the required config files. All this, while looking pretty.

Another thing I need todo is strip out all the things we won't be using from the Linux Distro I'm basing this off of - thus making it as small as possible.

A quick reminder, that you will need a USB Network adapter, because, at this point the linux kernel does not support the internal wifi adapter. Secondly, it should be noted that the Wii will only run in USB 1.1 mode - Thus, limitting to 12MB/s.

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OK - so a quick update....

IT WORKS - Kinda.

Using PPC compiled mythtv bins loaded and I could navigate (better then last build) however there is some issues with ParseXML - on talking to the MythTV devs there turns out to be multiple PPC instruction sets - so I need to re-compile all the MythTV bin's to this specific PPC code (Thanks @Sphery from #MythTv-users on freenode)

Once I have this working, I'll start cleaning up the packages and build a few test images - oh, and I hope to have my Cam fixed sooner or later so I can take vid of it booting.. ALSO - big news is that there is now ways to boot with Wifi support, so that has helped a littlebit since I relocated my wii away from a network jack.

Wish me luck - and comment!

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