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Users / Re: Initial install, my orbiter is my tv, what remote to use?
« on: December 05, 2008, 05:25:05 am »
Wow we must have been typing at the same time.

Ok I'll have to brush up on my vi it appears.  It's been years.  hjkl, i for insert (?), esc :wq! for write.  I shall give it a shot.

Thanks

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Users / Re: Initial install, my orbiter is my tv, what remote to use?
« on: December 05, 2008, 05:21:41 am »
Is this the page?

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Add_support_for_new_remote_controls

Is there a different way that uses the automatic code capturing like the AV remote training windows do?

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Installation issues / Re: USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 05, 2008, 01:59:21 am »
I see.  Ya mine toggles, no discrete power.
Thanks

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Installation issues / Re: USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 05, 2008, 12:23:29 am »
Also, just to add to my previous post, as I was sitting there typing it, my TV shut off without me being near the system, or my remote.  I can only assume the usb-uirt sent that, as I wasn't watching the little light.  Very strange indeed.  It has taken a life of it's own.

And BTW, I do appreciate you editing that wiki.  And I do appreciate the movie analogy.  I thought I followed that procedure to the letter, I must have typed a wrong character in the edit.  I had used vi before quite a bit, years ago, and have actually compiled a kernel a few times, but the last being around 1995 trying to get slackware to dail my modem.  I think the kernel was at 1.2 or 1.3, before they had the modules, so you had to compile the kernel to get any hardware features in.  Chat script comes to mind.  Yikes (shudder).  I got that to work though!

Any theories as to the spontaneous (or predictable, right after a dcerouter refresh and using the on screen orbiter the first time) sending of the tv off code?

Thanks
Dave


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Installation issues / Re: USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 05, 2008, 12:04:56 am »
???
Well I called it a spoiler, because it removes any need to put a build environment in place, in case you wanted to build more modules for other items in your system. But if you do not need to build anything else, then you cut right to the chase.

It's kind of like a movie. If you want to follow the plot, and experience all the characters in it, you watch the whole thing. Could turn out great, could be 2hrs of your life you'll never get back. But if you don't want to sit through the whole thing, you can easily view a "spoiler" somewhere, and cut right to the end.

Kind of like LMCE. If you want to learn how things work in the system, and gain experience and knowledge in the process. Start from the beginning, and build your own module.

If you want to be lazy, not learn anything, and just "get it working" , use the "Spoiler" . And if you would have read the entire wiki entry, this would have become clear.

I apologize for your confusion, but at least now, if you need to build another module to make something else work in your system, the work has been done, and it should be a piece of cake.  ;D

But so as not to seem a hardass, I will edit the wiki to say "The Spoiler: Instant Fix!"

Bet wishes and Regards,

Seth


I guess I wouldn't have minded so much if it would have worked.  Sorry for the somewhat short post, I was a little frustrated at the seemingly endless failures, at getting the usb-uirt to work.

Now funny thing, that is fixed, but whenever I go and click or use the keyboard on the screen orbit, my tv shuts off! LOL.  This only happens the first time after a dcrouter refresh, the rest of the actions do not send the code.  hmmmmm.  The remote I was using the most to train when troubleshooting the code sending issue was the tv power button.  Maybe all my failed attempts before at getting it to work buffered up and it's relieving itself now. 

But seriously, what would cause that?  I have looked in the home page under orbiters, interfaces etc, I see nothing that could cause this.  Now it's working too well!

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Installation issues / Re: USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 04, 2008, 11:51:34 pm »
OK, SO

In response to my own post, I manged to fix this by skipping to the spoiler section, and copying the file directly from the tar file.  I can now learn and control with the USB-UIRT.

This required me to first extract the .ko file to a directory where I had permissions, then
sudo -i
and cp the file over to the /lib etc etc on the command line. 

I really am not sure why this is called "spoiler", as I would have greatly appreciated skipping the compile part (the real spoiler), in favor of using something that is know to work. 

How does one go about editing that wiki to move the so called "spoiler" section to the top, so others may no have to take so long on this compile procedure?
Maybe next time you should read the whole thing before getting started.

Lesson learned

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Installation issues / Re: USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 04, 2008, 10:09:30 am »
OK, SO

In response to my own post, I manged to fix this by skipping to the spoiler section, and copying the file directly from the tar file.  I can now learn and control with the USB-UIRT.

This required me to first extract the .ko file to a directory where I had permissions, then
sudo -i
and cp the file over to the /lib etc etc on the command line. 

I really am not sure why this is called "spoiler", as I would have greatly appreciated skipping the compile part (the real spoiler), in favor of using something that is know to work. 

How does one go about editing that wiki to move the so called "spoiler" section to the top, so others may no have to take so long on this compile procedure?

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Installation issues / USB-UIRT disabled
« on: December 04, 2008, 09:09:22 am »
Hello,
Long story short, I could learn with the USB-UIRT, but could not control.  I am running the i386 dvd install of 0710.  Found this:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/USB-UIRT_x86_Fix

Followed this very carefully to the letter.  Reboot, now I cannot learn with the remote.  When rebooting I see "Not starting USB-UIRT, it is disabled" in the window prior to the full GUI appearing.  I see this:

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=5148.0

But no amount of reboot or loading the router helps.

I also notice a difference from before in the AV devices window.  Before, in the "comm port on PC" entry, I could select USB-UIRT.  Now, I can only select /sys/bus/usb-serial/devices/*.   Does anyone have any clue or suggestions on how to fix this?  I am contemplating doing a complete do-over with the 64bit dvd (I have an AMD X2 processor).  But somehow I feel this might open up a different can of worms.  Can anyone help?

Thanks

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Users / Initial install, my orbiter is my tv, what remote to use?
« on: December 04, 2008, 05:37:59 am »
Hi,
I do have a USB-UIRT installed, and it is receiving, because I can train codes for AV equipment (can't transmit, but that is another post, which I have found a fix for).  But I have not purchased a fiire or any other remote yet, is there a remote that might perhaps work?  I do have a xbox media center remote, and I think I recall reading somewhere that this would work, but it doesn't.  I see the usb-uirt blink though.
I know that you assign IR codes for AV equipment in the home page for functions, but where do you tell linux mce what remote to recognize?  Are there predefined ones somewhere? 

I have browsed around the interfaces page on the admin screen, and I do see the usb-uirt.  Down below there is a "device pipes used", is this where I assign a "remote"?  I am still wrapping my head around this "pipes" thing.

Thanks

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Users / Use the 64 bit linux mce distrobution?
« on: November 30, 2008, 12:23:27 pm »
Hello,
I have building an amd x2 based hybrid.  Is the 64 bit install any more or less stable than the 32 bit version?  Any reason to use one over the other?  Do all the other media directors need to be 64 bit also, since they net boot from the hybrid, or can the media director boot images be 32 bit even under a 64 bit os?

Thanks

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Users / Re: gigabyte MoBo with Nvidia 7800 chipset for HYbrid
« on: November 25, 2008, 07:58:34 am »
Well I just bought an ABIT AN-M2HD, I wish I'd have seen this before now, I'd have bought the ASUS you mentioned.  Do you think the ABIT AN-M2HD motherboard will work as a hybrid MB?

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Users / Re: gigabyte MoBo with Nvidia 7800 chipset for HYbrid
« on: November 21, 2008, 09:42:43 am »
It should be, i have an onboard nvidia 7050

I run 1080p  to my sharp with it.

Hello,
Just curious, what 1080p media do you have?  I can only think of blu-ray disk, or some games on game consoles output 1080p.  But this would not be going through Linux MCE setup.  Where can one get 1080p media material to play on a linuxMCE setup?

Thanks

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Users / Re: view DVR content from different Media directors?
« on: November 21, 2008, 09:15:38 am »
Yes very cool.  I guess the only reason now I would keep my directv pvr is that it has HD recording capability.  Once there is support for an  HD capture device in Linux MCE I will have to look seriously at replacing it with an HD receiver (non pvr), and save the monthly guide costs.  I read somewhere here there is a guide service for $15/yr?  I'm paying $5 a month now.  Directv service has gone up sharply in recent years and I like to stick something back at them wherever I can.

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Users / Re: view DVR content from different Media directors?
« on: November 19, 2008, 06:54:03 am »
Yes this is correct:
http://www.hauppauge.com/site/products/data_pvr150mc.html

The PVR cards are tuner cards, but they also have S-Video and Composite + analogue audio in for recording.
LinuxMCE can use PVR cards both as a TV tuner, and as a input for external decoders like your DVR.

The quality will be in SD, and you can only watch one channel at the time.... But all MD's can watch the same channel.

This brings to mind another question.  If two different media directors each have a pvr card, and a directv receiver connected to them, will linuxMCE take advantage of this "dual tuner" capacity in it's "season pass" functionality?  That is, is the scheduler smart enough to record a scheduled show on the available tuner, if the other one is occupied watching live TV?  Or additionally, if two shows are scheduled to record at the same time, will linuxMCE tune each receiver appropriately and record both shows simultaneously?  If so, while it is recording both shows, can you watch pre-recorded show simultaneously?


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Users / Re: encoded video of MD PC get stored on Core?
« on: November 19, 2008, 06:39:30 am »
Great info Andrew, thanks.

I think I'm going with a hybrid + 1 media director to start with, the hybrid being:

Main Board - Abit Mb Anm2 Hd Le (I read in the hardware page that people have used this with no problems)
CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 5000+ 2.6 GHz Processor with 64-Watt Socket AM2
Case - Silverstone SG01

From what I've read this should provide for some horsepower with reasonable noise levels.  Does this look reasonable?

Also thinking of playing it safe with the media director and going with the media live case and MB, and adding a processor and ram.

Thanks

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