MythNews (A RSS News Feed Plugin for MythTV) v0.2 for MythTV 0.17 --------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION: --------------------------------------------------------------------- type 'qmake mythnews.pro' in the main directory to create the Makefile. type 'make' in the main directory to begin compiling Compiling note: If you get an error on building this, that says something about 'mkspecs', then you don't have the QTDIR environment variable set. On debian, this should be set to /usr/share/qt3. Once the make is completed, do a 'make install'. - libmythnews.so will go into /usr/local/lib/mythtv/plugins - data files will be put into the /usr/local/share/mythtv/mythnews directory - image files and ui file go to /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/default Load mythfrontend and you should see entries for mythnews in the main menu and in the settings menu CONFIGURATION/USAGE: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Once you have installed mythnews you need to set it up. Go to Settings->NEWS Settings (This will setup the mythnews database for you automatically). On the Settings page there will be news feed sites on the left window. Double clicking or selecting and pressing return/space will add them to the database (These will also be shown on the right window). If you need to add a custom news feed site then add them using the "custom" button. Also set the frequency (in minutes) with which the news should be updated (Note: the minimum value is 30 Min to prevent DOSing the news sites). Now exit the setup page (by pressing ESC). Go to the NEWS main page and you should see the news feed sites on the left column and corresponding news articles on the right). You can move between news sites/articles using the UP/DOWN keys and between the news sites column and articles column using the LEFT/RIGHT keys. Pressing "U" will update all unupdated news. Pressing "F" will force updating news from all sites (WARNING: Don't use this key frequently unless you want to DOS the news sites and get locked). The news gets updated automatically depending on the frequency which you set in the setup page.
