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Installation issues / Re: tv/capture card question
« on: October 07, 2007, 12:34:37 pm »
hi all,
love the 0704 update.  I have a question for all you gurus out there.  i acquired an avertv usb2 plus external tv tuner/mpeg card that does not work AT ALL in linux, and according to the avermedia rep i spoke to, will never support linux.  i have the option to exchange it for an avertv hybrid +fm Volar that is also a tv tuner, and also a dvb tuner in one.  My question is, WILL IT WORK?  i have not found any specific info for this card and linuxmce.  there is a linux driver for it on their site, but before i drop the cash, i'd like to know for sure.  thanks

I think this page will help you determine if the Avermedia card you mention is compatible; http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Saa713x_devices#Avermedia

Hope this helps

Andrew

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Users / Re: How do you view pictures as a slide show?
« on: October 06, 2007, 07:49:08 pm »
I am thinking of adding all my pictures into LMCE. But how can I view then as a slide show and/or with navigation buttons )next and previous)? Does LMCE has any such feature at all or no?

No... it doesn't... but it would be nice if it did ;-)

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Installation issues / Re: Installing ZWAVE RS232 Interface ZCS201
« on: October 06, 2007, 10:44:13 am »
Any one know how to install the Zwave ZCS201 Interface?
I have difficulty in installing it. Please help.

Hi,

Well I am reasonably certain that it is not supported currently in lmce-0704... that the bad news :-(

However the way you should install it to test this is to do the following;

1. Power up you Core/Hybrid and make sure that the Hybrid's Orbiter is on screen.

2. Plug the ZCS201 into a USB port.

3. Within a few secs you should see the lighting Wizard on screen and the lovely Laura talking you through the setup.

4. The Lighting Wizard will check that it can communicate with the attached USB Zwave controller and then it will ask you to transfer your Zwave networks configuration from your Master Controller (usually a portable remote styled device) which you should have already added all your Zwave modules to before starting this process. On your Portable Master Controller there should be a menu for sending the configuration data to the USB Zwave controller... find it and move the Master Controller to close proximity to the USB Zwave Controller until the transfer has completed.

5. Once you have transferred all the Zwave configuration data from your Portable Master Controller to the Zwave Controller attacged to your Core the Lighting Wizard will report success... or possible failure in which case you need to do the transfer again.

6. If the last step was successful then the Lighting Wizard will report the number of Zwave devices in your network and then step you through the process of associating them with Rooms and naming them.

7. Once complete the Wizard will initiate a reload router and & regen all and once these have completed you should see the Lighting menu in the Orbiter for any room which has a Zwave device now has an ON/OFF. You can also use Web Admin to add a floor plan of your house and then add lighting icons to the lighting floor plan for each room. Then after another regen all you can use the Lighting Floor plan to control all the lighting in your home by click on the lighting Icons and then using the UP/Down controll to adjust lighting levels around your home.

Hope the above helps... and that you manage to get the ZCS201 working :-)

Andrew

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Users / Re: UK DVB and SKY TV
« on: October 06, 2007, 10:02:27 am »

Andrew, A couple of questions for when you get a chance.
1. How would VDR cope with an Analog signal from a PayTV STB. Can it deal with an external guide for the PayTV? and does this integrate in terms of infrared channel changing? (IR Blaster type functionality)
2. In your integrations, is it less obvious that an external application is being used? eg: with MythTV - the MythTV menu system comes up and it looks out of place when launched from linuxMCE. I am not worried by OSD for channel info and program guide etc though.

Regards
Darren

Hi Darren,

VDR has a plugin architecture for adding additional functionality. There are a number of plugins that enable analog TV to be brought into the VDR channel list. You obviously would need a video card such as a PVR150/250 with an analog input (ie you would not use the TV receiver in the card) to grab the output of your PayTV box. VDR will then treat this input as an additional channel in your channel guide. Integrating the external guide data for the external PayTV box can be achieved to through another plugin and some scripts as long as there are open sources for the data (this will depend on your local market). In 'vanilla' VDR installations controlling the external box is pretty easy to achieve using lirc etc however in an lmce installation it is more complex because of the DCErouter and associated scripts but it is possible. Again the setup/control of your PayTV box via IR will need some local config by you as its menus/IR code will probably not be in the system.

In our current lmce-0704/VDR integration when you select TV from the Orbiter UI at your local MD (ie not remotely controlling an Orbiter on another MD) you are instantly taken into the native VDR UI which is very much like a traditional STB and your remote control continues to work as it would in the Orbiter. If you are remotely controlling TV from say a Windows Orbiter or a Nokia 770/800 then you get the Pluto TV UI on the screen of your Orbiter but the VDR UI is still used at the remotely controlled MD. This is how our initial release of the vdr integration will work due to the tight coupling of the VDR on OSD. We are looking at ways to make the integration more seamless but these are not going to be in the first release. Its a trade off but it does make DVB based TV really work well inside LMCE and we think that is a trade off that is acceptable.

By the way you can see our current 'teaser site' here http://www.dianemo.co.uk ... don't forget its aimed at a non-technical audience and it is a teaser not the full site (which will have some technical info for those that want it)

Andrew

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Developers / Re: Stats
« on: October 06, 2007, 09:05:05 am »
Hello Andrew,
I come from the pharma industry and I quite used to writing procedures, technical reports and general technical writing.

I have been looking at some of the wiki and see that there is a clear gap between what is on Pluto and LMCE.
Is there an activity going on currently to being them in line or at least to the same standard?

for example if I was to receive a good list of what is needed to set up a system ie core and md plus basic automation stuff. I could generate a nice pretty presentation around that information for people to get an idea as to what is involved in start up lmce. I've never used flash or any thing like that but the wiki is quite poor at the moment.

And from my prospective (not having a clue) the first think I wanted to know was what h/w was needed and how long it would take to set up.  I found it quite difficult to get that information.

Ok... This is turning into a rant so I'm going to stop cause i believe the work that is going on here is great and more importantly the work in the back ground seams to be huge!

Thanks for your input,

Der


Hi,

Sorry for the slow reply!

Well I think as ever with a public Wiki you just have to jump in and get involved and start making the improvements you feel are needed. The lmce community needs all kinds of expertise and for sure good quality technical writing is of great value here. As to a comparison between Pluto and lmce I would say that the latter has more momentum and it is certainly where we see our efforts going.

All the best.

Andrew

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Developers / Re: Stats
« on: October 06, 2007, 08:52:37 am »
totallymaxed,
Where is your website?

Or are your referring to LMCE?

Der


Our product/service is built on top of lmce-0704 and has not launched here in the UK yet.

You can see our current 'teaser site' here http://www.dianemo.co.uk

Dianemo is the name of our product/service that will be professionally installed by an installer and is targeted at the broad middle income home market. So bare that in mind when browsing the web site - we are not aiming this at a technical audience at all :-)

Andrew

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I'm considering getting a two part setup: one main core and one diskless media director (most likely the Fiire station and Fiire engine). What I'd like to do is set up the core upstairs, in a closet, and have the media director downstairs, near the TV, connecting wirelessly to the core.

Now I realize that you can't really watch HD content reliably over a wireless network. That's perfectly fine. What I'd like to know is if the director can start building a local cache with a buffer large enough so that I can watch the HD content reliably. In other words, here is my user story:

I want to watch my 1 hour of Heroes on HDTV. I tell my fiire station that I want to watch Heroes. It starts downloading content over the wireless network from the fiire station upstairs. I go make myself a cup of coffe. Five minutes later, the fiire station has downloaded enough content to buffer the first 10 minutes of the show. I sit down and start watching. The fiire station has a couple of gigs of flash memory, so I can still rewind and skip commericals. I'm watching the show, and the buffer is building up as I watch it, so that my media experience is seamless.

Will this work?

I tried asking this question on fiire.com's chat support page, but the technician didn't seem to understand my question. He gives two contradicting answers. At first he says no and then he says yes. When I asked if I could escalate the question since it was a big decision for me, his answer was "I am a tech support engineer"  :-\

   Julien:    
Question
I would like to know if the fiire station can connect through a wireless network to the fiire engine. I would like to install the engine upstairs in a server closet, and then connect the station to my TV without having to run wires
   adrian:    
How May I help You?
   Julien:    
Hi
   adrian:    
hello
   Julien:    
Were you able to read my question?
   adrian:    
yes, you can but the main prob is that the wireless network is not good for streaming
   adrian:    
if you watch dvd's for example
   adrian:    
so, we recommend a wired network
   Julien:    
does the fiire engine have a local cache? So that it can start pre streaming a couple of hours of video?
   Julien:    
I'm thinking if the engine has a few gigs of flash memory I could tell it that I want to watch a tv show, and then it could stream that and cache it?
   adrian:    
it can record it if you want
   adrian:    
just schedule it
   adrian:    
from mythtv
   Julien:    
Right, I understand that it can schedule from mythtv. My question is, will the engine have to stream everything from the server in real time, or can the engine do any local caching so that it doesn't have to steam in real time?
   Julien:    
If it can do local caching, then it could look good over a wireless network as long as I give it a few minutes to start streaming and build up its cache
   Julien:    
does my question make sense?
   adrian:    
i only know that mythtv can do that scheduled recording
   Julien:    
Would it be possible to escalate the question to someone that knows? I'm considering the purchase but it's a big decision so I want to make sure it works
   adrian:    
i am a tech support engineer
   Julien:    
I see. So do you know if watching a scheduled recording on a fiire engine over wireless will work well?
   adrian:    
becausemany users who are using mythtv reported that works
   Julien:    
ok, thanks
   adrian:    
you're welcome
   adrian:    
anyway, we done that too at Fiire


The simple answer is - the current lmce-0704 will not do what you are describing as that functionality was not part of the design. But a simple CAT5 network between your two machines will give you the bandwidth to watch live/recorded TV on your lounge MD. So I would suggest you look at that simple 'work around' as it does not rely on any new features being added to lmce-0704 but just a relatively small change in your physical installation :-)

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Users / Re: UK DVB and SKY TV
« on: October 04, 2007, 09:34:17 pm »
Totallymaxed - are there any other considerations as to whether your vdr work will apply and all functionality work other than the input being DVB? Australia uses DVB-T (and DVB-S) for free-to-air TV and I am really keen to know whether this will work here, too...

Hi Colin,

I think VDR is a good fit for Australia or anywhere where DVB is the adopted standard for Digital TV. Yes what we are working on will definitely work in Australia :-)

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Users / Re: z-wave lag
« on: October 04, 2007, 07:40:23 am »
I am using a ZCU000 attached to a z-wave network of 4 devices... when I tell it to turn the lights off in the room, it does each one individually.... is there a way to get it to do each light at the same time? (same for any dimming, it's a little weird.) ???

-Thom


Its just the way the Zwave messaging works as far as I know. In all Zwave demo's I have seen you see this slight lag between lights. We see it here on our lmce systems too.

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Users / Re: UK DVB and SKY TV
« on: October 04, 2007, 07:37:51 am »
I can definitely understand how hard it is to put exact times scales on these sort of projects.  :)

After more reading around the forum it seams that for us in the uk vdr is defintely the way to go, common consensus seems to suggest it is a lot better for freeview and there seem to plenty of people wanting to get vdr running

It is really good to hear you are going to release this back to the community and after reading previous posts you have made it seems you have been working on this for a while so starting from scratch on this seems pointless and a wait of a month or so is not to bad at all although I am pretty addicted to UI2 with alpha blending, is this going to be a long way off?

When this is released to us all will it be just handled by one of those updates like linuxmce asked me if it could do a week or so ago?

I am also interested to read that the people who are developing linucmce want to make developing the GUI easier so people can customize and make use of more exciting eyecandy features, this sounds a cool feature but it is quite a way off from what I can make out although linucmce being merged with kde sounds promising and may make this process quicker than I first thought.

Well we definitely see vdr as a better 'fit' for our needs here in Europe becuase of its total focus on the DVB standard - which in many ways is what GSM is to mobile phones. The other reason we believe vdr is the right choice is that its much smaller leaner application that Myth and its very stable so it works well as a 'component' of the total lmce system.

I don't really have any more details on when we will be ready to release our code. It will be released through the standard lmce updates mechanism though. UI2 is a bit more complex...but we're working on it. As to UI enhancements... well if lmce gains a simple skinning mechnism then we will support it.

All the best

Andrew

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Installation issues / Re: TFTP File not found Errors when MD's PXE
« on: October 03, 2007, 06:03:25 pm »
Thank you both for the help so far!!

I tried to setup diskless MD's and the admin site runs through it's configs but I sill fail to find files when tftp tries to run.

I also renamed the File in pxelinux.cfg and came to the same result.

In /tftpboot/ I also saw that I had two folders each with two items. They were /tftpboot/42 and /tftpboot/54. 42 and 54 are the numbers that were assigned to MD's in the past but they didn't work. I renamed then as well and saw no change.

I am using this PC normally but MCE finds it and asks me to set it up as a file server. Could the MAC address be recognized else where in MCE that would cause it to get a 192.168.80.248 IP instead of the 192.168.80.2 IP that I got when it booted with bad graphics config?

Again thanks for the Help!!

Try looking for the Mac address of your machine that will not pxe boot in Web Admin -> Advanced -> Configuration -> Unknown Devices

If you see a line with the 80.248 address then click the 'Unlock' button at the far right hand end of the line. Then try pxe booting the MD again and see if it announces itself properly this time.

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Developers / Re: Stats
« on: October 03, 2007, 05:53:10 pm »
Hi,

Well we're not listed on source forge and we're a developer. We've been working with Pluto nearly 3 years now and now lmce. We're developing a full installed service/product around lmce targeted at non technical users in Europe. We're based in the UK and we plan to start early customer trials in November. Some elements of our service/product will not be open source (our UI and some enhancements that only have a purpose if you take our service for example) but in many other areas we will be contributing code and improvements.

Anyway its great to see such an active community building around lmce.

Andrew

It'd be nice just to see some screen-shots of your UI. Do you have some public information?

Well I think it will need a week or two more work before we'd be happy to share what we're upto with the UI. But I will definitely post some here at that time... and there will be information on our Web site to that I will be able to point you at too.

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Users / Re: wake on lan query...
« on: October 03, 2007, 05:44:07 pm »
Hi all...

Would anyone know if it is possible to WOL another PC from within LMCE ?

What i am after is perhaps a button you can click on to wake up the PC in question.

The reason i ask, is because i have a server which is only used for about 2 hrs a day at most, and would be silly to have it sit there running for no reason the rest of the time.

The core server will be on 24/7, but the other ( media ) server need not be.

Any one know how i could achieve this ?   btw..  i know nothing about linux.  I am hopefully migrating over soon.

Thank you

Hi,

I think I promised to get back to you on this sorry!

From the command line type;

etherwake <mac-address of device> or even moonID (for MD/PC's)

try;

man etherwake

for more info. This will send a 'magic packet' to the device targeted and as long as that device has the bios & Network interface options to do WOL then your in business. Obviously you could build some scripts to make this work more slickly and also trigger those scripts based on other events or even time of day etc etc.

Hope this helps

Andrew

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Developers / Re: Stats
« on: October 03, 2007, 10:45:22 am »
Hi,

Well we're not listed on source forge and we're a developer. We've been working with Pluto nearly 3 years now and now lmce. We're developing a full installed service/product around lmce targeted at non technical users in Europe. We're based in the UK and we plan to start early customer trials in November. Some elements of our service/product will not be open source (our UI and some enhancements that only have a purpose if you take our service for example) but in many other areas we will be contributing code and improvements.

Anyway its great to see such an active community building around lmce.

Andrew

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Users / Re: Follow Me - DVD
« on: October 02, 2007, 09:27:50 pm »
I agree, thats what it sounds like, but im fairly sure its not...unless I'm missing something,

In the Add-software screen DVDCSS has a big green tick next to it (in both core and MD) and

apt-get install libdvdcss2 says the currently installed version is the latest, same with apt-get install libdvdread3. (again, from the director Im moving from and to)

So...can I take it from your reply that it "should" be possible?

I agree it looks like it should be installed ok... sometimes the 'Add software' screen does not tell the truth... so tis worth running it again from there. Another thing to try is run the following script from the console;

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

hope this helps!

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