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:

[Credentials]
aws_access_key_id=
aws_secret_access_key=

and then run Duplicity:

Code:

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I've tested it on Chrome and IE10. IE10 has an occasional minor graphical glitch that goes away after scrolling (I think their renderer might have a problem). Chrome works great. I'm looking at doing a bunch of usability enhancements to various parts of the web admin tool over time. Basically, I'm working on every area I have to spend substantial time in that area and that frustrates me. 

OK, I get the general feel for that now. I was reading the code and not understanding the "why" part of the equation. Now I do and I can dig deeper into this. I've started building these objects and I'm reading the Hulu code. I guess I better figure out why Hulu isn't running on my MDs and fix that before I go and try to test this.  This will take me a bit, but it feels good to keep my C/C++ skills up to date. It has been a little while.

So, I was trying to work with Ruby to write drivers for my components at home only to discover that the Ruby editor is, well, horrible. I fixed it so that it resizes to your window size and worked with that until I discovered the actual editor didn't work properly and I replaced it with ACE. I attached files to ticket #1752 if someone wants to put that into the repository or play around with it themselves.

I also used a CDN to source my Javascript for fewer attached files but if those files should be included, then I'll pull those and attach them as well. Let me know.

Why is Hulu split between plugin and player? What's the purpose of that? What's the recommended way of testing this on a MD?

It is checked in but I don't know if the system changed the number or not. Sorry. I'll PM you my code. Somewhat of a hack since I couldn't figure out how to import JSON libraries into the built in processor.

I don't use Nest but do use a Filtrete 3M-50 that I am trying to add support for  (it is cheaper and not as Apple-esque).

Check out template #2254 for that 3M-50 you speak of. I'm actively developing the driver and fixing little problems here and there.

I've pulled down a dev tree and started poking around at DCE devices. I think the hardest concept is the actual layout of the requests and responses. I'm learning how the DCE stuff seems to work and have been having some fun writing a bunch of my own devices for everything I own. Anyone else?

Thanks guys! I'm not adverse to digging into my database and fixing things. Fixing sqlCVS might be a little difficult and time consuming. I'm not afraid of a challenge, but my master's project is supposed to be taking more of my time than it is. Phenigma, I'll see if I can hit you up later, I'm out of town most of this weekend so I'm not free to work on it until next week some time.

Thanks Thom! Yup, I had already committed, it got approved, I updated, all was well. I went in and fixed the IR Command Group number to the correct one and it came back. Then, I edited again and it got blown away again. A simple update command brings it back each time. I obviously have something corrupt in one of my tables and it might have been something I did or any number of updates or changes. Any clue as to where that might be? I can poke into code if you can give me a place to look closer. I'm a rather good debugger but I just don't know enough of the LMCE codebase to know where to start. Thanks again!

I created a new climate device, checked it in, and have been using it for quite some time now. I realized that I had forgotten something in one of the modes ("off") and went to go fix it. I made my change and saved. Now it dropped all the configuration and then reloaded it all as a Denon receiver. Um, what? I went and reverted in sqlCVS and no change. Now I hit reload and all my code is gone and loading up as a Denon receiver. All I was doing was trying to turn off my fan.

Help please!