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Users / Re: How do you close LinuxMCE
« on: April 01, 2007, 11:03:04 pm »
I was finally digging into the docs and ran across this which might be of help :-)

When both LinuxMCE and Ubuntu are running, you can toggle between them by pressing ctrl+alt+f7 for Ubuntu and ctrl+alt+F11 for LinuxMCE. Unfortunately, at this moment, once you start LinuxMCE there is no way to stop it. The Ubuntu integration is still a work in progress.

Of course, you can hunt down all the pids from the command line with ps -ef , find which ones are related to LMCE and sudo kill -9 [pid] - but that will likely produce some unexpected results, you might be better off with just a reboot. 

HTH,


Stu

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Installation issues / Re: ATI Technologies ATI RAGE XL
« on: April 01, 2007, 10:46:43 pm »
You can try switching to the UI1 to test the functionality of it. You can also install the ATI drivers for ubuntu - if your card is supported to see if that helps - it took me several tries to get them installed but there are several guides available that will help out. 

HTH,

Stu

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Installation issues / Re: E: Couldn't find package pluto-dcerouter
« on: April 01, 2007, 04:38:31 am »
I had several failed installs until I downloaded the new standalone ISO and installer. If nothing else works for you, it might be worth installing from scratch and re-downloading the ISO.

Stu

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Users / Re: Security Questions
« on: April 01, 2007, 03:31:22 am »
Bluetooth - I believe it asks you if you want to install a new BT device or ignore it.  Given the small compatible BT devices the remote software works with, you should be very safe with this :-)

 
Core Security - This is why it's a linux box and not a windows box.  I have 3 ubuntu machines on public facing IPs  and no firewall between them and the rest of the world and have never had any sort of unauthorized access to them.  compare that to the windows 2003 AS box that was compromised within 5 minutes of finishing the install.  There is nothing in the specs that I have seen that requires you to have it right up to the internet to work, so you can put a firewall, a router between it and the internet if you feel the need to. 

HTH

Stu

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Compatible Products & Services / For those wanting to roll your own box...
« on: March 31, 2007, 01:42:43 pm »
When the system I was using to test this lost all USB (laptop) I started looking for other options and ran across this on pricewatch.  Now, I've not tested, bought or endorse this barebones system, but after reading the "what to expect page" I did find this barebones sff  http://www.eaglebit.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=EB-110-00002&Click=14 which could be built into a fairly decent system for under $350.  Here is what I used for my price list (off pricewatch.com)

P4 2.6
512Meg
200gb SATA
8x AGP GeForce 6200
tuner card

If anyone knows of a better budget base system, please post.  The system I was using to test lost all USB which makes it almost worthless for this project :-)

Stu

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Feature requests & roadmap / Tivo
« on: March 31, 2007, 07:19:19 am »
I'd love to see LinuxMCE be able to see a networked Tivo, pull the files off, convert them and make them available for viewing.  I have 2 DirecTivos in the house and have no plans to replace them :-)

Stu

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Installation issues / Re: well, that didn't work.
« on: March 30, 2007, 09:49:26 pm »
I finally got a few hours to sit and play with this again.  Fresh install of 6.10 and installed with the new iso.  Install seems to finish without error and starts the GUI wizard for setup after reboot. 

However, I didn't install the ATI drivers ahead of time so the UI2 doesn't seem to function at all and all of my usb ports are non-functional, I think this is a hardware issue which will be most disappointing since this is the only spare computer in the house with a video card worth a damn.  This will kill the usage of this computer, since being a laptop, usb is the only way to get BT or an external mouse into it.

Thanks for the input!

Stu

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Installation issues / well, that didn't work.
« on: March 15, 2007, 08:59:26 pm »
Being new to the project, I have some questions for the installer and maybe a place to look for why it's not installing all the way.
 
I've gone through several reinstalls of this system and none of them have worked as expected, usually stopping when it hits a package it can't download, even running the install from CD. Where does the installer drop it's log files so I can check more in depth of why/where it's failing?  The one time it went through the entire install and asked me to reboot, the icon to start linuxmce never was installed in the app menu. 

It does run, even with the failed install and takes me through the guided setup.  It renders all the screens and then goes to a black screen, either popping up a message saying it can't reach the orbiter or justs there on a black screen.

Many thanks,

Stu

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Users / Re: Any info on best hardware?
« on: March 15, 2007, 07:54:21 am »
If your PVR 150 is a linux based computer, things should work out of the box.  There are a couple of ways, depending on your comfort level to experiment.  You could pick up another harddrive and swap it out with the one you have and do a fresh install.  You could resize the current drive you have and make it a dual boot system.  Both of them have some risk of data loss if things go bad.

Since I'm new to the pluto and linux mce setup, I can't speak for what automation hardware works best with this system, but by and far the most common and cheapest HA hardware is X10.  You also get what you pay for, the equipment can be flaky and a huge headache to deal with... that being said I have about 50% of my house running on it being controlled by another open project called mister house (http://misterhouse.net).  I know there is some work being done on making the projects work together, it was a link on the misterhouse mailing list that brought me here.  Used X10 equipment can be picked up cheaply on ebay and it has the bonus of being tested - most of the x10 failures I've had have been in the first month of use. 

I hope this helps

Stu

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Installation issues / 64 bit version of the installer?
« on: March 14, 2007, 06:43:45 am »
I'm running the 64bit version of ubuntu 6.10 - will there be a 64 bit version of the installer, or is there another install method that I should use?

Thanks in advance,

Stu

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Compatible Products & Services / Where to buy the cool gyro mouse in the demo video?
« on: March 14, 2007, 02:38:20 am »
I might have missed the model number somewhere... but that is a MUST have for giving this a try :-)

TIA,

Stu

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