Enna MediaCenter – better than MythTV
I recently looked into setting up a media center at home. I installed Mythbuntu, purely because I wanted things to be as easy as possible, but still it was not easy enough. MythTV seems good for PVR or normal TV usage, but I just wanted to play media stored on my external hard drives, something MythTV doesn’t like that much.
I started looking for something else, even looked at Freevo, but ended up with Enna.
I went into the Mythbuntu control center and disabled the front and backend for mythtv and also disabled the autostart for mythtv. Added the Enna repo and installed it.
Not only does the default skin for Enna look amazing, the flow of things are much better than mythtv.
There is a config file for Enna, but there’s no need to configure things like storage paths. Simply start Enna and start browsing to wherever you want to be.
It also fetches data automatically for your series and movies, which is a great plus, because I wasn’t going to do that myself and its pretty to look at.
Next thing I’ll look at is GeexBox when I get a tv/dvb card. Its the alternative to MythTV, also being able to watch tv and record and it still uses the great looking interface from Enna.
Welcome to the wooorld of tomorrow!
Hi! I'm Stephen... I'm just a plain 'ol system/network administrator working mostly in Linux and I do miracles on a daily basis for the best WISP here in Knysna. I try to write mostly about technical stuff, but mostly it's a bunch of junk. Enjoy the blog folks!

