Hmm. Well that field says 600, which I understand means 10 minutes, yet when I exit media, the TV turns off almost instantly.
I will try to play with it some more this weekend. Also I notice another line there:

"Uses Infrared" and then the number "0" , which I am assuming means off. I wonder if I set that number to be "1" instead, perhaps it may make a difference, as this V is definitely controlled by infrared.

I will do some more messing around with it tomorrow, when I am at home.

Regards,

Seth

Hi all,

I was wondering if there was a way to adjust the delay that the TV screen powers off after exiting media.

For example, if I am watching MythTV, and I exit or choose "Off" from the UI2 menu, the TV on that MD turns off instantly. Like immediately.

Is there a way to adjust that time to say something like 5 minutes. That way I can after turning off MythTV, choose something from say the video menu without having to wait for the TV screen to power back up again?

I can't see a way in the templates, is this something to be addressed in the scenario for said event?

Regards,

Seth

[NEVER]

 
Here is a snip from my "House to sleep mode" Lighting scenario in the master bedroom, (for when I turn in for the night)
1st Image.
And here is the "Timed Event" that I use to wake up the MD's (Power them on)
2nd Image

This is the ultimate home control system. It NEVER ceases to amaze me with its seemingly infinite potential.

Regards,

Seth

Have you tried changing the windows workgroup settings to "LINUXMCE".

This solved a host of my windows networking issues.

Regards,

Seth

Not to hijack this post, but has any development gone into integrating hulu as a media device on 810?

I only ask because when I watch google videos, and youtube stuff at home, after a certain amount of time firefox window disappears, and I am left with a black screen.

But having a hulu media device, now that would be pretty sweet.

Regards,

Seth

Thanks for the quick response. I will make the changes. And then we will see what we get.

Great find on this by the way.

Regards,

Seth

Hi all.

I have added a X10 motion sensor, and EagleEye MS14a.

I have added it using the instruction under X10 in the wiki. I have modified my cm11a to be a "Specialized" interface as per the instructions, and assigned a House Code to the MS14a.

I added the motion sensor as type "4" for detecting motion. I a, wondering if it should be added as type 1 for security events? Or is there a way to add it as both types?

Either way, it is always in a state of tripped. Does anyone have any insight on how to resolve this issue?

Regards,

Seth

[C]

I think this may help with my issue, however my 4th word is not a number. It is a letter. See attached Image:

As it is the letter C. I am wondering if it is changed to say E or G if that would increase the time?

Any thoughts.

Regards,

Seth

 

This is a great new addition to the wiki. Fantastic job.

Thank you, from a meager end user!!!

Regards,

Seth

 
Also keep in mind, that the MythTV function of LMCE is exactly like the Stand alone version. If you have multiple MD's hooked to the system, each one has a slave backend built in, so, the core will push commflag jobs to any other systems (MD's) that are inactive or using less CPU.

I have 4 MD's, and I can pull up the backend status on mythweb, and usually the job hosts are the MD's, leaving the core to have full power for everything else.

My commflag jobs run first, and are then followed by the "Save Recording to Pluto DB" job as well as my "remove-commercials" jobs. Because all 3 jobs run one after the other, the core usually offloads the processes to one of the MD's in the house not being used, or being used very little.

So the more MD's you have, the more the commflag and any other UserJob you schedule from MythTV will be pushed to MD's to save CPU power on your core, or core/hybrid.

Regards,

Seth

I look forward to your setup. This is something I have not been able to implement yet. I would like to use it. It would greatly reduce the monthly electric bill, and also possibly reduce some heat in certain cases.

Perhaps over the weekend I will give it a try.

Regards,

Seth

I think this would be a great feature. Have them power off, and then at a specific time in the morning, power back up.
How green would that be?

I am going to check into this tonight, and see if I can come up with something as well. Please post back any findings here, during you experimentation. I will as well.

Regards,

Seth

 
Firstly, Welcome Aboard.
The Insteon PLM template currently does not support X10. It tries, but I have never been successful. What I have done is this, until Insteon support gets better.

I have an Insteon PLM on a development box. I have 2 Insteon Lamp Dimmer Modules, and 1 Insteon Keypad Dimmer. Here is how I actually use them:

I have Hooked up to my core 1 cm11a X10 controller. Throughout the house I have several X10 lamp dimmers, dimmer switches, motion sensors, and XPS3 on/off switches. The insteon modules I have assigned X10 addresses for now. They are always reliable, and work much faster than traditional X10 devices. The Keypad dimmer switch I have has a local ON/OFF as well as 6 keypad buttons. These six buttons I have set to different X10 addresses, and it controls the X10 devices assigned to the buttons.

For example, The local switch controls the ceiling fan in that room, and the buttons:
1 - Kitchen sink light - A9
2 - Living room ceiling fan - A2
3 - Living room lamps - A3
4 - Foyer lamp - A4
5 - Master bedroom light (insteon lamp dimmer - linked the insteon way - also assigned X10 address B2 so the system can control it)
6 - Girls bedroom lamps (insteon lamp dimmer - linked the insteon way - also assigned address B3 so the system can control it)

SO you can use the high quality Insteon stuff for insteon devices as well as X10 devices.

This is currently the most reliable way to use Insteon and X10 with LMCE.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Seth

It seems, at least in testing that I have resolved the issue. I changed the way mythtv recordings were captured, to try to get a more "realistic" picture from a post I read here in the forums. And the post works well, at the local TV, in this case my core/hybrid. The initial settings were to make all SD recordings 480x480 when captured.

I changed this to 720x480. Per the forum post. I am thinking because of the size of the file, or perhaps the format it was captured in was causing the issue. Here are some screen shots to show the differences in the recordings:

The first image is the recordings with the modifications, the ones that would not playback well on an MD.

The second image is after the changes were reset to default, and these play swimmingly.

So at least in my case, leaving the defaults was the solution. My picture is still outstanding, very watchable, so for now I will leave the settings as default.

Regards,

Seth

Hi, All,

Well I have decided to create a core only server, and I have been on newegg and put together a list.

I would welcome any input on my choices. I will add questions to each item.

And here we go:

Case:
NORCO RPC-430 Black 4U Rackmount Server Case
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811219029
Looks as though it will not be too long like most server cases.

Motherboard:
BIOSTAR TForce TF720 A2+ AM2+/AM2 NVIDIA nForce 720a ATX AMD Motherboard
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138117
This has the Realtek 8111C gigabit ethernet on board, so I will most likely need the Realtek fix from the wiki.
This will be the Internet facing NIC.

CPU:
AMD Phenom 8450 Toliman 2.1GHz 3 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 95W Triple-Core Processor
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103283
Now this is triple core, so I am hoping that LMCE will utilize all cores? Would this be correct?

CPU/Cooling:
XIGMATEK Dark Knight-S1283V 120mm Long Life Bearing CPU Cooler
This is recommended for Quad core. It looks as though it will be fine for triple core. Any thoughts?

Memory:
OCZ Fatal1ty Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227364
I know 4G is overkill, but I do plan on having 5 MD's. So I am not sure how that reflects on memory usage. Any thoughts?

Standard DVD-ROM:
LITE-ON Black 18X DVD-ROM 48X CD-ROM IDE DVD-ROM Drive Model iHDP118-08
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827106275

That would be it. I will be using my existing Gigabit Ethernet card for the Internal network. I will be using my existing storage, and tuner cards.

Please review the hardware, and if you know anything that may arise, a problem with some random chipset let me know. If all is coll, let me know, I will add the stuff to my cart.

Thanks again,

Regards,

Seth