Comment 1 for bug 237564

But what happens if you don't have a frontend on the box? What happens if the .mythtv/config.xml still doesn't exist?

My preference is use a modified MythTV.pm which doesn't require accessing the database. I've made the modification, I just need to submit the patch to the MythTV trac instance.

The second option is to have all the UPnP modules installed so that UPnP can be used. Of course, then MythTV.pm still needs to be modified to not tell the user that it has used UPnP. (More patches I have sitting here waiting to be submitted.)