MythNews (A RSS News Feed Plugin for MythTV) for MythTV --------------------------------------------------------------------- INSTALLATION: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Run the mythplugins configure script './configure'. Type 'make' in the main directory to begin compiling Once the make is completed, do a 'make install'. 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. 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). 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 old 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.