There is an another interesting plug PC - Stratus++. It has built-in Z-Wave adapter. So, you don't need to buy USB one.

Hari, how you control your GuruPlug? Do you have some GUI for that?

Out of interest (this is a question for Thom I guess), why is the N800 orbiter so responsive (in terms of volume control, skipping forward/back, any repetitive button presses) in comparison to the touch orbiters? Also the N800 ALWAYS displays the correct screen, in that it never needs to be refreshed - is there some fundamental reason for this?

I assure you this isn't a dig at your work darrenmason, I am just curious.

Cheers,
Matt.

N800 Orbiter is a port of SDL onscreen Orbiter. And it doesn't have any relations with Touch Orbiter. That's why you can see some different between them.

Agree with Andrew. Also we can get some useful ideas from other system to implement something similar in the LinuxMCE.

gtsupport,

I am curious if and how you got HD up and running I own an Atom system myself and while it runs SD as sunshine the HD part I still haven't covered.

To run HD on Atom box you should have a strong graphics, i. e. nVidia ION. Because it'll decode video instead of CPU.

Guys, who own some Zotac boxes, can you tell me if they have some fan inside? And if so how noisy they are?

Andrew, can you explain briefly how UPnP controlling work, please? I. e. let's assume we have core/hybrid, Boxee Box and Web 2.0 Orbiter. As I understand the Boxee Box will be added to the system as UPnP device. What next? How we can control it via Orbiter? Is there some special screen for that?

What about the noise? I was under impression that it doesn't have any fans at all.

Also I'm interesting to know is it possible to power on that box from wireless keyboard?

The set SUID is solved problem. Thanks.

Hi,

I need to run VLC from Computing menu to watch online stream. But it doesn't start because it's tried to run under root but it's not allow:

Code:

VLC is not supposed to be run as root. Sorry.
If you need to use real-time priorities and/or privileged TCP ports
you can use vlc-wrapper (make sure it is Set-UID root and
cannot be run by non-trusted users first).

Does anybody knows how to solve that?

Thanks in advance.

Installed and configured it yesterday. Everything works fine.

for 810 we provide the iptv deb already, which has been working fine

Cool. Didn't know that. Thanks, posde, for your answer. I'll try to install and configure it tonight.

Hi,

Does somebody use VDR with IPTV plugin? I downloaded and built IPTV plugin version 0.4.2. But after copy binary to the VDR lib directory and restarting VDR it started restart continuously. Any idea why?
Here is a log:

Code:

Feb  7 00:58:22 dcerouter runvdr: restarting VDR
Feb  7 00:58:22 dcerouter kernel: [355340.750388] saa7146: unregister extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
Feb  7 00:58:22 dcerouter kernel: [355340.801692] budget_ci dvb 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A disabled
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.973897] saa7146: register extension 'budget_ci dvb'.
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.973958] budget_ci dvb 0000:01:07.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.973996] saa7146: found saa7146 @ mem f8944800 (revision 1, irq 19) (0x13c2,0x100f).
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.974008] saa7146 (0): dma buffer size 192512
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.974013] DVB: registering new adapter (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-CI PCI)
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.976099] adapter has MAC addr = 00:d0:5c:21:f7:72
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355342.977324] input: Budget-CI dvb ir receiver saa7146 (0) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:08.0/0000:01:07.0/input/input11
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355343.016703] Creating IR device irrcv0
Feb  7 00:58:24 dcerouter kernel: [355343.364616] DVB: registering adapter 0 frontend 0 (ST STV0299 DVB-S)...
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] cTimeMs: using monotonic clock (resolution is 1 ns)
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] VDR version 1.7.15 started
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] switched to user 'vdr'
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] codeset is 'UTF-8' - known
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] found 26 locales in /usr/share/locale
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-sc.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-xineliboutput.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [xine..put] Listening on address '127.0.0.1' port 37890
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-control.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-streamdev-server.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-iptv.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-streamdev-client.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-remotetimers.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading plugin: /usr/lib/vdr/plugins/libvdr-svdrpservice.so.1.7.15
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/setup.conf
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: ChannelBlocker = 0
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: ChannelBlockerList =
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: ChannelBlockerMode = 0
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: DolbyTransferFix = 1
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: NoQamOnDecoder = 0
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: RecordDolbyDigital = 1
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: TurnOffPrimary = 0
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] ERROR: unknown config parameter: UseSyncEarlyPatch = 0
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/sources.conf
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/diseqc.conf
Feb  7 00:58:39 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/timers.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/commands.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/reccmds.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/remote.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] loading /var/lib/vdr/keymacros.conf
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13216] video directory scanner thread started (pid=13215, tid=13216)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13217] video directory scanner thread started (pid=13215, tid=13217)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13217] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=13215, tid=13217)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] reading EPG data from /var/cache/vdr/epg.data
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13216] video directory scanner thread ended (pid=13215, tid=13216)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] registered source parameters for 'A - ATSC'
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] registered source parameters for 'C - DVB-C'
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] registered source parameters for 'S - DVB-S'
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] registered source parameters for 'T - DVB-T'
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] probing /dev/dvb/adapter0/frontend0
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [general.debug] capturing device 0/0
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] new device number 1
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] frontend 0/0 provides DVB-S with QPSK ("ST STV0299 DVB-S")
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13219] tuner on frontend 0/0 thread started (pid=13215, tid=13219)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13220] section handler thread started (pid=13215, tid=13220)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] found 1 DVB device
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] initializing plugin: sc (1.0.0pre-HG-1cc3497be31c+): A software emulated CAM
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [general.info] SC version 1.0.0pre-HG-1cc3497be31c+ initializing (VDR 1.7.15)
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] initializing plugin: xineliboutput (1.0.90-cvs): X11/xine-lib output plugin
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] new device number 9
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [xine..put] cTimePts: clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC): clock resolution 0 us
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [xine..put] cTimePts: using monotonic clock
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] [xine..put] RTP SSRC: 0x7ec2be47
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] initializing plugin: control (0.0.2a): Control VDR over terminal or telnet
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] initializing plugin: streamdev-server (0.5.0-pre): VDR Streaming Server
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] initializing plugin: iptv (0.4.2): Experience the IPTV
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] registered source parameters for 'I - IPTV'
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] new device number 10
Feb  7 00:58:40 dcerouter vdr: [13215] creating IPTV device 0 (CardIndex=9)

Thanks in advance.

This guy has pretty interesting setup measuring pretty much everything! http://www.bwired.nl/

Yes, it's really awesome! Also you can find a lot of useful hardware there like water meters with Rfxcom RF transmitters, for example.

nite_man: los93sol wrote a DCE device for the TED 5000.

-Thom

Thanks, Tom. I already saw it but forgot This is another good reason to use it.

I like [ur=http://www.theenergydetective.com/ted-5000/featuresl]TED 5000[/url]. It can work as standalone system and display all info on its LCD monitor module. Also it can be integrated with home automation system or Google PowerMeter. Unfortunately it uses ZigBee and not Z-Wave.

Hi Vagner,

Possibility to change audio track in AVI/MKV video and switch on/off subtitles is one of the most important features missed in LinuxMCE. Currently you can use following command on your core to change the audio track:

Code:

/usr/pluto/bin/MessageSend localhost 0 23 1 140 5 "<track number>" 41 ""

Audio track number can be 0, 1, 2 etc.

To show subtitles the subtitle's file should have the same name as video file, i. e. video-file.avi.srt. Also have a look this instruction about changing xine.conf.