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Developers / Re: Chromecast

« on: July 29, 2013, 11:49:36 pm »

Jury is out still...

$35 and possibly can stream to it like a squeezebox. I'm reading the APIs and checking to see if that is possible. Maybe...

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Users / Re: Motion_Wrapper fails to acquire images (produces grey images)

« on: July 25, 2013, 11:41:38 pm »

Yeah, that looks like it is running as root so it should have permissions. Do a ps and look for the motion executables and check who they are running as. That's odd.

I've seen screen show up as SCREEN for a while now but I first noticed it on LinuxMCE since it makes such heavy use of screen. Very strange.

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Developers / Re: Developing a Weather Plugin, videos

« on: July 24, 2013, 10:05:54 pm »

Yeah, I do. I guess I'm just mule headed some times.

I've finally caught up on integrating all the devices that I own (except for my stupid ZWave controller that never seems to work right) and I now need to start developing more stuff. I should hop back onto creating the devices that you asked about a while back.

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Users / Re: Motion_Wrapper fails to acquire images (produces grey images)

« on: July 24, 2013, 10:00:19 pm »

For some weird reason screen always shows up as SCREEN in the process list. This is not LinuxMCE specific.

My first, last, and only guess is permissions. Who is the original task running as? I can imagine a scenario where the capture thread does not have permissions to access the USB camera.

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Developers / Re: Developing a Weather Plugin, videos

« on: July 24, 2013, 09:54:51 pm »

I just watched this first video. I've found that without a primer like this, I've flailed around too long and hard to get anything done. This is already helping. Thanks!

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Marketplace / Re: controllable thermostat less than 5" wide?

« on: July 11, 2013, 09:33:34 pm »

I saw this:
http://www.wiredprairie.us/blog/index.php/archives/1754

It looks like it communicates with the Nest servers not directly with the Nest device though.

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Marketplace / Re: controllable thermostat less than 5" wide?

« on: July 09, 2013, 07:55:45 pm »

Nest is pretty small. 3.2" across and 1.26" deep.

http://www.nest.com/inside-and-out/

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Users / Re: DCERouter Delay and Orbiter vs. QOrbiter

« on: July 03, 2013, 02:43:34 am »

Thank you! I'm looking...

Well, I wouldn't be much surprised since I know the delay doesn't function on a scenario but does on an event.

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Users / Re: TSCHAK has a TSCHAKlet now.

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:42:12 pm »

Awesome! Congratulations and good luck with the sleep! Watching them grow is amazing.

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Users / DCERouter Delay and Orbiter vs. QOrbiter

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:36:14 pm »

So, I was reading the various issues with the delay in the forums so that I could put in a delay on a Scenario. So, it fails from a normal orbiter but works fine from QOrbiter. The delay is completely skipped when executing from any orbiter except the QOrbiter. It looks like these events are going through two different code paths and one seems to work better than the other. I would like to attempt to fix this if I can. If somebody can point me in the right direction, I'll do what I can. I've been trying to get past just device development and into core coding for a while but I have yet to get everything going so I'm going to try to figure this out. Thanks!

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Users / Re: New to Linux

« on: June 14, 2013, 05:11:56 pm »

I started playing with Duplicity and, with very little work, I now have my systems backing up to Amazon S3 services. Create a .boto file in your home folder with the credentials stored in it:

Code: [Select]

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id=
aws_secret_access_key=

and then run Duplicity:

Code: [Select]

duplicity --exclude /mnt/device/72/user_1/incoming/ --exclude /mnt/device/72/user_1/data/ --s3-use-new-style --volsize=25 /mnt/device/72/user_1/ s3+http://some_bucket/some_folder --no-encryption --verbosity=9 --gpg-options=--no-use-agent
This creates 25MB tgz files on the S3 server and works rather well. Once there, you will want to set up Glacier to move your files so that you get charged the really cheap price of Glacier.

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Users / Re: New to Linux

« on: June 11, 2013, 06:54:39 pm »

The vast majority of things don't ever need the command-line. When things go sideways, command-line is the way to go. LinuxMCE is an entire bundle and it all installs beautifully, easily, etc. but some of the config can be a little daunting because it is such a huge system. Get yourself a good book (O'Reilly) or online tutorial. Linux is actually easier to administer than Windows in many areas. Scripting is a powerful solution to most problems. Embrace the command-line.  That being said, the vast majority of configuration in LinuxMCE is in a web page.

You can install your own backup system. I don't have any recommendations right now. I just periodically copy everything I need to a separate drive. There are tools that will backup to the cloud. A quick Google found tons including http://duplicity.nongnu.org/index.html

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Users / Re: Hulu Desktop Not Working

« on: June 07, 2013, 08:27:40 pm »

Thanks Thom! I can't wait to try it. I've been without Hulu for ages and that's big for the Wife Acceptance Factor.

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Developers / Re: Building Dynamic Orbiters with JSON/AJAX/HTML5

« on: May 21, 2013, 01:14:32 am »

Well, I've been working through Hari's JSON-RPC code and looking at how to do that type of thing in LinuxMCE. Mostly I've just been trying to get stuff to work.

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Users / Re: Updated Template list

« on: May 11, 2013, 12:20:27 am »

Works for me! 

I do recall there being an error on submission due to my failure to update my instance before checking in and it caused a conflict. In case that helps.