Maybe he wants to hire Tschak909 for 4 hour inspection tour. It probably is the best 1000USD Eric had spend on his installation. At the end Eric will know exactly what works, what does not work, and what should be done.

Maybe i can hire you as tech later down the line...

Eric,

with lmce preparation beforehand is key to success, and saves a BUNCH of time and money. "If I knew than what I know now..." I could have saved myself a lot of hassle, and a lot of false money spending.

And it is not me, as I am not nearly as qualified.  I do not know of anyone else than Thom, that *I* would hire to get things done.

Enough for now

RI Just happens to be right between TSCHAK  and TKmedia 

That's why I was asking, where Eric is located.

Maybe he wants to hire Tschak909 for 4 hour inspection tour. It probably is the best 1000USD Eric had spend on his installation. At the end Eric will know exactly what works, what does not work, and what should be done.

Check on the Compaq (HP) site for infos, and/or maybe some BIOS settings. If all else fails, do a google search for those Compaq EVO models, plus alsa, and see if you can come up with some infos.

DVB-S2 is not supported by lmce out of the box.

Regarding what hardware to get, have a look at the http://linuxtv.org wiki.

Eric,

where are you located?

Palentir,

a lot of posts have gone thru this subject.

As lmce wants to help you control everything, the route taken was by providing a DHCP server for the internal network. Do a search on the forum regarding DHCP, and you will find some VERY heated debate about it.

The functionality that lmce does provide right now, is provided due to the current concept of lmce .

You are referring to the UI2 menu system.

You currently are using UI1.

Depending on your computers graphics card, you can switch to UI2 masked and/or alpha blended. Both UI2 options will give you the slick 10' UI that is shown in the video. (btw: I prefer UI1 on an orbiter, but that is just me )

hari,

you need both of the WebDTs

[..]
The Media Center functionality is only 20% of the entire system.
[..]

Now, where have I heard that before ... 

pflegefall,

no idea, why your setup.conf gets overwritten

sorry

totallymaxed,

even if a tuner card is detected and working out of the box, it still needs to be configured within MythTV and/or VDR. The correct way would be, upon detection of the card, LinuxMCE should ask me (for VDR), what channels.conf file should be needed for that card. And for MythTV, it should be automatically added in there as well. THAT is one of the beautiful things of LinuxMCE that tschak is trying to point out.

Well for vdr we dont want to generate a channels.conf per card... thats crazy (unless it is a different category of card such as a DVB-S or DVB-C card) so we treat those configs as global for the whole TV side of the system. Other than the channels.conf once the DVB card is autodetected by the system there is no other config to do at all in fact.

Andrew,

yes, we do want to display a nice selection box to the user, if a new device is added to the system, and present a list of channels.conf for this specific card to the user. That is the goal.

We do not want the user to HAVE to go into the web admin to setup the TV part of the system. Yes, we do it now, but that is just something that Tschak would call, duct tape.

To give you an example: I have a three DVB-S card system at home. 2 of the three cards are connected to Astra 19.2. One of the cards is connected to the british Astra satellite (I think 28.2). It would have been really nice, if lmce could have prompted me upon Setup (just like it does for MythTV in the US [If I understand things correct]), what kind of service is connected to each of the cards. That would save the user the trip to the web admin, and give a much better out-of-the-box experience.

This MUST be the goal. Will we be able to fullfill this goal with 0810? I highly doubt it, as we will use 0810 as the building block for future community releases, and still have lots of things to learn. But eventually, we will have that capability in the setup wizard.

When you restart VDR manually, ie.

Code:

/etc/init.d/vdr start

it will show you all the installed plugins.

Just to set the record straight. You pay TAX for everything that comes into Germany (since 1st of December only if it is above 150EUR iirc), but you do not have to pay other import duties on some equipment. It depends on the type of equipment, and how the tax office specifies the equipment.

just a couple of reminders:
149USD is excluding shipping, and iirc, fiire had some hefty shipping feeds
You can't get a fiire chief atm (only in a lots of 100s it seems)

and yes, it is a free market.

totallymaxed,

even if a tuner card is detected and working out of the box, it still needs to be configured within MythTV and/or VDR. The correct way would be, upon detection of the card, lmce should ask me (for VDR), what channels.conf file should be needed for that card. And for MythTV, it should be automatically added in there as well. THAT is one of the beautiful things of lmce that tschak is trying to point out.