Hi,  if you are in the US, you need to create an account with http://www.schedulesdirect.org this is a pay service that costs $20 US for the year. After creating an account and getting logged in, add your channel lineup information based on where you live, then after you have all the channels you want to view added/removed log out of your account, re-run setup wizard and when prompted during the "devices configured to receive broadcast media" screen, enter the e-mail address you used to create your schedulesdirect account, and the password you use to log in, it will then contact schedulesdirect, and get your program guide info, and then add it to the chosen tuner input. It will take about 10 minutes for mythfilldatabase to run, and then you will be ready to go.

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Seth

 
This is great news. I am getting 2 of these little devices. Having an orbiter on my headboard, is a wonderful concept. I look forward to your code release, and If you ned any testing done... Let me know.

Should have them in the next couple of weeks.

Great Work,

Regards,

Seth

You could try blacklisting the module in

Code:

/etc/modules.d/blacklist

Edit that file and add the cx88_alsa in there, reboot and see what happens.
This will prevent kubuntu form loading that particular module.

Regards,

Seth

 
Looks good. The only issue I foresee is the Nvidia 8xxx series cards are giving most users here issues. Consider a 6xxx or 7xxx card, as they mostly appear to work out of the box. That's all I use in my systems at home.

Welcome aboard 

Regards,

Seth

Is this your only tuner? Or are there others?

 
I had to manually set a card with this chipset up in mythtv. I had an AverMedia 150M. Same chipset, same messages. But you just choose a v4l device in mythtv set and set it to your /dev/videoX number, and then I got it to work. It is just a frame grabber, but can be used if manually set up. Sarah did not know it was even there.

Just my experience.

Regards,

Seth

 
This link to the wiki is mine, I have just basic functionality working on the remote. I have been playing with kernel patches to try to get the additional buttons to work. And I am getting closer to a permanent fully functional fix. But for now, following the wiki instructions you can get it to work for most everything you need to do in LMCE. Things like follow me, and such will not be implemented as that is firmware specific to the Fiire branded remote. But if you really need that, by all means spend the extra $140. Or be like me, just use the orbiter and switch your media on the fly 

I have 2 of these remotes now, and they are all we use anymore.

I will update the wiki as soon as we get the rest of the buttons on the remote to register with LMCE. It is an ongoing battle, but soon we will get it resolved.

Regards,

Seth

 
You can get to them by going here : http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/User_Setups
For example mine is located @ http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/User:Seth

I will add a link from the main wiki TOC Under the heading User Setups. I thought this should be here. Worst case, someone will bash me and remove it, but by then, you will have it in your history 

Regards,

Seth

 
Hi all. Over the weekend, I installed a fresh copy of 710 RC2. I added my media drive back into the mix, and all my shows show up in the LMCE Video menu, as if it never happened. However, when launching the MythTV viewer, I do not see my recordings. I can remember in my Knoppmyth days, that there was a script included, that would rebuild/repopulate your mythtv menu after a fresh install. I think it was called mythrebuilddb.pl I was wondering if this script could be run in LMCE. It uses the same database as pure MythTV, mythconverg, but I was wondering if any of the LMCE/MythTV gurus, would have any insight as to whether or not this would still work. I am not sure how interwoven if at all the mythconverg db is with the pluto_main db.

Any ideas would be great. I have yet to find the script on the internet, but I have a Knoppmyth disc at home, and I could install that on a test box, and get the file. If I am not mistaken, the mythbuntu cd I have would probably have the file as well.

On another note, if there are any mysql guru's out there, perhaps you may know of a different way to re-import the data into the mythconverg db?

Thanks in advance,

Regards,

Seth

 
I'd bet powering down the mythbuntu box, they may re-appear. Looks as though there is some mythbackend issues that aren't getting worked out. Give that a try.

 

What exactly have you tried? What kind of video card, and connected to what type of viewing source? (TV, monitor, projector, etc..)

Have you looked at the AV wizard bit in the wiki? http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AVWizard

A little more information would be great! 

Sounds like the AV Wizard (the next step after the first boot) is going to a different output. Read here for using the AV Wizard: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AVWizard. You probably have to press 1 or 2 on your keyboard, then follow the on screen instructions. However your Nvidia card being of the 5xxx breed raises some concern. I personally only have experience with 6xxx and 7xxx as they are the supported chipsets for Nvidia currently. But the first step would be to run the AV Wizard and let it work its magic.

Hope this helps, Welcome aboard!!

Regards,

Seth

 
So to understand, this fixes the issue of the USB-UIRT not being able to transmit w/out IR Dongles? I know 64 bit will transmit with just the USB-UIRT itself, but since 704, you needed IR Dongles to transmit using the 32bit LMCE.

So is this the fix? If so, excellent!!!

Regards,

Seth

Well in your case, as all your tuners are on the core, then you should see them in tv_shows_1. Your recordings should be available already to every media director. You should not need to force anything. Mine vary by moon, because all my MD's have tuners. If they were all to reside in the same machine, the all recordings should go to tv_shows_1. And that folder you can mount to any other drive/directory structure, just make sure you have the path set to the new location in mythtv-setup.

I have 4 stb's and they all have a LiveTV<stbname> entry, and they are all visible to every MD. It would be worth looking into the mythtv recording settings, to see if you can assign a recording to a particular MD, and that would turn point the recording to a different directory. I have not tested this though, so it would merely be a guess.

As to the need to force recordings to a specific directory, if you have all your tuners in one box, that should not be necessary. All MD's capable of playing video/mythtv will be able to see them, either through the provided "Video" button in the LMCE menu, or by choosing recordings from the LMCE menu while viewing TV (mythtv). This is how I prefer to do it, as I commflag all my recordings, and watching them back through the mythtv interface, in my case, allows for automgic commercial skipping (you have to enable this on each mythtv frontend, via the setup options inside mythtv) and it is not as cpu intensive as using the xine_player to view the recordings.


And pointing the mythtv-setups to that mounted large drive, is basically exactly what I do, so it should work fine.

Regards,

Seth

Recording groups are a feature of mythtv .21 or higher. We use mythtv 20.2 fixes if I am not mistaken. So the use of storage groups is not implemented. If this is a feature you want , perhaps checkout the new version of MythBuntu www.mythbuntu.org. However, as LMCE is a linux based system, you could mount another drive to the /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1 directory in you /etc/fstab file. This is what I do with a 500GB drive.

As to seeing multiple tv_shows directories, this is for the use of multiple tuners. In my installation I have 4 tuners, they show up as /home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_<moon number> for example at my place it is

Code:

/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_1  is linked to the tuner in my core

Code:

/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_42 is linked to the pvr150 in my MD moon42

Code:

/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_86 is linked to the pvr150 in my MD moon86

Code:

/home/public/data/videos/tv_shows_96 is linked to the Aver Media card in my MD moon96

These are identified by the mythtv-setup per MD. I have them mounted as follows:

Code:

/dev/sdb1 /home/public/data/videos/mythtv/ ext3 defaults 0 1  for my 500G drive on dcerouter

And the directory structure on this drive contains the folders:

Code:

tv_shows_1 tv_shows_42 tv_shows_86 tv_shows_96

And of course I made the changes to mythtv-setup on each MD to reflect the directory structure:

Code:

/home/public/data/videos/mythtv/tv_shows_1

And so on......


So you can use different drives, for mythtv storage. However you can not share groups like you can with the newer versions of mythtv. But I am sure in the future, with the level of developers we have, it will be a possibility.

Regards,

Seth