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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Attitude of COOPERATION.
« on: December 28, 2009, 06:19:15 pm »
You got it!!  I'm good at (as if you aren't yet aware) annoying people!!

BTW, I've also got what I'd consider a heluva' dev-capable setup here, and both my son and I are learning as we can...  Hopefully soon...

And, I'm back in IRC.  Guess freenode doesn't like SSL, or at least doesn't like mine...  lol

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Attitude of COOPERATION.
« on: December 28, 2009, 06:06:54 pm »
@krys

I agree.  As wonderful as it is, LinuxMCE lacks a bit in the way of things that I would consider part of a smart-home server, some of which it even seems to claim to have.  I'd love to see these things included, or even an element of modularity designed into it, so that modules for the features we DO need/want can be installed, or not.

Anyhow, it appears that dlewis has placed a sticky in the forum, looking for more opportunities such as this, or at the very least, possibly to recruit dev's that are hiding in our midst!  Either way, I hope that this leads somewhere beneficial to all involved!!

@dlewis

Thanx for posting the new sticky!!  I can only BEGIN to imagine, in my hyper-active, chaotic, unfocused and directionless mind, the potential results!!

And of course, thanx again, for your support and assistance with my idea, so far.  BTW, you said either they or I would need to take lead on this.  So far, it appears, they are.  However, I'm ready, albeit clueless, if I must.  I have my end-results clearly in mind, but no clue how to get there (story of my life)...  I'm in both IRC channels 24/7 now, on my main server (never goes down, unless necessary, is my primary working box, and will eventually be my Hybrid), and am ready for whatever!!

edit:  wow, seems I've lied to ya'!  Can't get Quassel to rejoin the channels, now, after a major Office/Lab reoganization last night, to accomodate better for my attempts to keep organized, and assist with this...  dammit!!  I'll get back on ASAP...

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Attitude of COOPERATION.
« on: December 27, 2009, 10:24:47 pm »
Thanx much.  Honestly, I've no clue how to get started with this sort of thing, and appreciate the guidance.  However, it appears that we are making progress!!

http://forum.ebox-platform.com/index.php?topic=2502.msg10873#msg10873

Guess I'll have to get my IRC set up again, and dig back in!!

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Attitude of COOPERATION.
« on: December 27, 2009, 08:05:25 pm »
@dlewis:

Thank you, for your willingness and support.  I do understand and recognize the areas where the projects coincide.  And, their project currently has a few issues that need worked out.  But, between the 2 projects, I see one heluva' home-server being created.  Whether or not, in fact, we get a collaboration started, I'll be combining the projects on my own gear, if I'm able...

I do not, unfortunately, know anybody personally, that works on the eBox team, and have only discovered the project within the last few days.

I will, however, gladly copy copy and past your posting to their forum, in the hopes that we might get you in touch!!

edit:  @dlewis:  Your post has been linked to eBox forum, and here's a link to their reply to me:
http://forum.ebox-platform.com/index.php?topic=2502.msg10856#msg10856
Hope it'll help!!

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Feature requests & roadmap / Attitude of COOPERATION.
« on: December 27, 2009, 10:23:00 am »
To begin with, I LOVE LINUXMCE.  PLEASE, do not take this as reason to get defensive, offensive, insulting, or expectant of me to do more than my current abilities would permit me to realistically do.  Take it for what it is:  CONSTRUCTIVE criticism, and SUGGESTION of a means to IMPROVE what I believe needs it, where I, PERSONALLY CANNOT write the code (or change the minds of man) to do so.  Believe me, when I'm ready and able, I WILL.

I, awhile back, described (albeit, maybe not very well) how LinuxMCE's Telecom system was broken, on a default install, and how I attempted to upgrade and/or repair it.  I succeeded in the end, and posted the info for documentations' sake (and of course, help if and from where it might be available, was welcome), but was CALLED A LIAR (AND SINCE, HAVE HELPED A FEW WHO HAD SIMILAR TROUBLES, with my findings).

As well, I've suggested ideas of adding the functionalities of Multi-WAN Routing, to the firewall / NAT setup.  MANY folks have asked about OpenVPN capabilities.  My own solution to both has, for quite some time been a (whether physical and seperate, or in virtual machine) system loaded with either pfSense or ZeroShell, that provided both, as there seemed to be nothing with an Ubuntu basis that provided completely.  Problem is, they're both troublesome / problematic, all the way around, in VM, and to dedicate an entire machine to either (with no real room for added features / services) seems a complete waste of a box, and the power to run it, particularly to my tight-wad wife (and wallet)...

As well, I've seen vague claims that LinuxMCE handles e-mail, but no sign that it actually does, and many requests on how to make it do so, with no real solutions...  The Addressbook is awfully difficult to use, the last I looked or heard, and doesn't integrate with much of anything, outside the LMCE system...

I'm not the only one who sees these issues, I hope.  It seems, however, that anytime ANYBODY speaks up about what might be improved, they're given the patent answer, "Either dev it yourself, or STFU and wait until we decide to get around to it..."

I COMPLETELY understand the idea that there are just a few dev's working on this project, and that they can only do so much, in the free time they have in life, and fault NOBODY for it.  However, the attitude I speak of has nearly (if not really) DRIVEN FOLKS AWAY.  I believe that, in and of itself, to be contrary to the very concepts that drive development / business / life forward.

I've RTFMed, and told the ID10Ts to do so, when I felt it appropriate.  Problem is, there's alot that's NOT IN THE FM.  Yet, this attitude still seems to be the main response from those capable of dev'ing / answering the questions for the rest of us, all too often.  Even some of the senior folks, been around since FAR BEFORE ME, have threatened to leave as a result...

Here's my response:  I AIN'T LEAVING.  YOU'LL NOT DRIVE ME AWAY.  I LOVE LINUXMCE, AND WHAT IT WILL DO FOR ME / MY FAMILY / MY CLIENTS.  YOU'LL LEAVE BEFORE I DO, I ASSURE YOU, and it'll be your own negativity that makes it so...  I just pray that I've learned enough to continue this project's improvement, when that happens...

Now, if I may offer a constructive idea, for cooperation with another project, that likely can use LMCE as much as LMCE can use them:

I've recently discovered eBox (http://www.ebox-platform.com), and believe that it might just be the answer to much of the lack in the LinuxMCE feature-set, as a home-server.  eBox  provides WORKING Print-, OpenLDAP-, OpenVPN-, and other such services, AND will replace the Multi-WAN, OpenVPN, etc. for which I've previously employed other, more flawed and limited solutions.

A cooperative such as this could also offer their project features that have been requested by some of their users, and all the other things we, as LMCE-Geeks have grown to love...

Any chance of a cooperative development tag-team?

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Users / MythTV 0.23 / Trunk
« on: December 01, 2009, 01:51:24 am »
Just thought I'd add my experience:

I've got LinuxMCE 0810 (Hybrid + 5 MD's) running along-side a few working machines which must remain stable and connected.  These working machines have all been upgraded to Kubuntu Karmic, and thus, MythTV's database versions were off, and wouldn't play nice with the LinuxMCE Net.  As well, on our Android-Powered G1's, we've attempted to use nearly everything available for remote control of MythTV, and I seem to remember that we needed some new tweak on the frontends, for use of Mythmote.  There may have been other reasons as well, but these were the main ones that I remember...

I did some googling, and found that the Avenard repos that we're using, "release testing" were just a tad behind the DB version used by default in Karmic (or vice-versa), so changed it to "release testing trunk", and now all are in sync.

THE POINT:  The Avenard Repo's trunk versions of 0.23 are PLAYING NICE with LinuxMCE, and have given me no more trouble (with my cheap-a$$ capture cards and such...) than LinuxMCE normally has.  Might be worth looking into?

Loving the way 0810's been running, the last few weeks!!  Mega Thanx to all the folks making it happen!!

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Installation issues / Re: lmce-mythtv scripts
« on: December 01, 2009, 01:35:50 am »
Nice, and thanx.  I've ssh'd in, and am watching things happen via htop, so I assumed I should leave it be.  As well, I've been watching the regen via the web-admin -> orbiters page, and it's just about done.  No MD's have been powered on, since upgrades began.

I might just leave it running all night long, and reboot in morning.

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Installation issues / Re: lmce-mythtv scripts
« on: December 01, 2009, 01:00:21 am »
I've just "aptitude dist-upgrade"d to the Beta 2, and I had to run an "apt-get -f install" afterward, followed by another "aptitude dist-upgrade", to get it to update it all.  It's almost a habit for me to do so, but I DID see errors fixed by steps 2 and 3.  Might be worth a try.

Now, just having completed that process and rebooted, I seem to be stuck at a black screen with mouse pointer, so I imagine my troubleshooting has just begun!! ;D

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Add SSHFS to the options for file server.
« on: November 16, 2009, 11:50:43 pm »
In part, I have SSH access to a few friends' media collections, mostly music.  All accounted for, I've got direct and immediate access to nearly 10 TB of media, my own 2.5 included.  I could, if I chose to, download their collections to my Hybrid, and in the case of videos, usually do.  But, I use SSHFS nearly exclusively, for internal network sharing as well, and just want to stick with a stable, secure (encrypted) standard across the board.

In the case of a performance hit, I'm not sure I've got anything to worry about there, as all my hardware is well in excess of the recommended system spec...  I've actually had to REMOVE RAM, due to the lack of amd64 support as yet, and spread the extra out among the MD's.  Also, according to some (such as OP in this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1090085), SSHFS performs much BETTER than NFS, in regards to the network...

Anyhow, it seems that I was incorrect in my assumption that I had set up the SSHFS / AutoFS correctly.  I had access to all the media, until reboot, at which time the /etc/auto.master file was over-written for some unknown reason, and has been each reboot since.

edit:  added reference...

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Feature requests & roadmap / Add SSHFS to the options for file server.
« on: November 16, 2009, 06:07:43 am »
I've set up my all-Ubuntu network with no file-sharing, for security, other than the default Samba/NFS shares set up by LinuxMCE (I simply haven't had the time to research disabling them).  We use SSHFS and AutoFS for all our file-sharing in the home.

I have set up SSHFS with AutoFS on my LMCE 0810 Hybrid, to a working 4 TB server that must remain stable and unchanged, where all my family's media is held.  However, I've searched these forums and wiki for the last few weeks, and cannot find ANY reference to how this might be done via the web-gui, and having just set it up manually, I've no idea whether the media sync will happen automatically.

All files in share are VISIBLE via the web-gui, but none have been added to DB as yet.

Is there any specific reason for not having SSHFS as one of the integrated options for file-shares?  Any ideas on how this might be easily accomplished?

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Users / Re: New Device: simple DPMS Monitor device (on/off only)
« on: August 22, 2009, 01:42:37 am »
Thom, thanx a bunch!!

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Users / Re: Android Orbiter
« on: June 07, 2009, 06:02:55 pm »
Wow...  The original Q, as yet not answered, was how much we would be willing to pay.

Not sure, but if it works correctly, I'd pay up to $5.  I'd love to help you test, as well, if you're looking.  Running 1.5 on my G1 for the last few months, with the UnionFS apps2sd hack.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Multi-WAN, anyone??
« on: December 20, 2008, 08:48:38 pm »
Personally I'd rather do, what you already have.  That is keep the router seperate from LinuxMCE. There are all sorts of network connections that it is possible to have now, and in the future.  I see absolutely no reason to have LinuxMCE developers tied up supporting them.
I can see, and to some greater extent agree with this perspective.  But, too frequently, when this sort of separation of router (or any other piece) from LMCE is mentioned, the response is typically something along the lines of -> Leave it alone, let LMCE do it all, quit reinventing the wheel, etc.

I am quite happy with my network remaining in it's current state.  Just thought it might be nice, since the firewall, DHCP and PXE servers, and other related features are already included, to add in one other, that would make it possible to eliminate an additional system (in my case anyhow) from the network / household power-grid...

Basically, my point of view is this:

* If you know what you're doing..and you actually know what's going on underneath, then do what you want to do.

However, We can't support it. So I will repeat this once more.

YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.

Our only interest is in providing the functionality we are implementing out of the box, and not requiring to be a geek with pocket protectors, horn rimmed glasses, and an anti-social streak to use it.

-Thom

My apologies, Thom...  It seems, again, that an idea and/or inquiry for interest has been mistaken for a request for YOU, PERSONALLY, to make it happen for me, and make it your first priority.  I have read, and re-read my own posting, looking for how you might've gotten that idea, or how I might've deserved the horribly insulting / condescending response that I feel as if I received.

I try to post what I believe might be valuable contribution, either in documenting steps I've taken and the results I received, or as in this case, ideas I think might be valuable to others.  From this point forward, I may just try not to post at all, as this seems to be the normal pattern of reply, of late.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Multi-WAN, anyone??
« on: December 08, 2008, 04:24:54 am »
My current setup = 1x DSL modem (7M/856K) AND 1x Cable modem (6M/512K) -> pfSense (currently 2.0alpha) firewall / router, and set up for load-balancing and fail-over -> 4-port switch -> LMCE Hybrid -> a few MD's, VoIP router, etc...  As well, from the same switch, I run a PXE-Image server, primarily tasked with drive-imaging and bench-testing systems...

I can't imagine how lovely it would be, to be able to completely remove the pfSense system, and have LMCE handle my Multi-WAN routing, as pfSense does!

Any interest, here?  It's truly beautiful, to see 12M down / 1.2M up, COMPLETELY FLOODED by torrents, and make a nearly flawless VoIP call, at the same time!! ;D

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Installation issues / Re: Non network boot (HDD) Media Director?
« on: November 22, 2008, 05:49:13 pm »
This is the way that it used to go.  However, the newer install CD's did not present this option the last time I attempted it.  That has been a few months ago, and they may have changed the CD images to support this, but I've not noticed any change in the image name...

I may, now that you've brought this back to forefront of my mind, attempt it again.  It sure would be nice to have this working...

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