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Users / Re: Video Pipe question

« on: March 01, 2011, 09:35:10 am »

I mostly use the web orbiter on my Ipad, if I want to use the onscreen orbiter I have to get the TV remote, switch to HDMI2 (LMCE input), then select the scenario I want (TV, Blu-ray, or Game) in LMCE which will switch the TV back to HDMI 1 which is where the viewing signal comes in.  So if the web orbiter doesn't work then really the whole thing is just adding more steps.  All I want to achieve is that when I choose Audio or Video on the web orbiter, it will switch the TV and receiver to the correct inputs.  Surely this is not too difficult.  I know I can achieve this, I have written a new scenario which sends these commands to test it out, but I was trying to edit the automatically generated scenarios to get them how I want them.

I appreciate what you're saying about LMCE controlling it all, and I have already taught all the remote functions from my devices via the USBUIRT. (had a spare few hours!) and had a play around with it.  I think that if every AV signal was going through LMCE then the onscreen orbiter would be great, and the TV would always be switched to the LMCE input.  However because of the poor quality using LMCE all my media stays in its HD format and bypasses LMCE, straight to the TV.  What I do love is the fact that from my media director in the kitchen, I can change the channel on the satellite box in the lounge now using the IR, thats great.  If only I could find out how to get the audio back in sync with the picture

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Users / Re: Video Pipe question

« on: February 28, 2011, 10:46:57 pm »

Yes, I know LMCE is capable of controlling it all, but for 90% of the time I just want to watch TV, and don't want to have to go get the Ipad if its in the other room, just so I can start watching a movie or something.  I prefer to just pickup the normal remote and change channels, or press play.  If we had decent HD support then I would use LMCE for everything, but its not good enough yet.  Even my HD PVR capture device doesn't last more than 5 minutes before it switches itself off for whatever reason.

Anyway, back to the video pipes, I was having another play tonight, and there is a problem with the video pipe from my core to the TV.  It's all setup so that the core is on input HDMI2, this is set in the web-admin connection wizard.  The fault lies in the fact that when I select the audio or video scenario for example, it should change to HDMI2, but it always selects HDMI1.  I know that the command for HDMI2 works because I can test it.  When I click the re-send AV codes in the orbiter it shows the TV and HDMI1, not HDMI2.  This is wrong and I need to be able to correct it, but all these av switching commands are stored away somewhere that I can't find.

Does anybody know where the instructions for these scenarios are kept?

Another scenario I'd like to get my hands on is the "Watching" and "Not watching" scenarios.  How do I change these.  For example if I stop watching sky via LMCE then I don't want it to switch the sky box off, and keep turning the lights back on.  I'd prefer it if the lights stayed as they are, and the sky box did too.

Perhaps I'm missing something obvious, so any pointers greatly received.

Thanks.
Matt.

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Users / Re: Video Pipe question

« on: February 28, 2011, 10:41:26 am »

Hi J,
I'm sure you're right, but I want to keep that functionality, its one of the reasons I bought all Panasonic Gear, so that 1 remote can control everything, and the inputs all switch automatically.  Because LinuxMCE doesn't do HD or Blu-ray I don't use it for watching movies and TV in the lounge, just for selecting music, pictures etc, and for my son's Disney dvds.  I'm thinking about getting one of the HDMI-CEC controllers that is talked about here: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=9664.15

which would maybe help with the IR problems, but if it still send the commands in the wrong order, then I'll still have to find a way to alter them.

Cheers.

Matt.

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Users / Video Pipe question

« on: February 27, 2011, 06:47:32 pm »

Hi, my USBUIRT arrived on Friday so I spent the weekend playing and setting up all the video and audio pipes for my system.  What I need to know is where can I see the commands that are sent to the USBUIRT each time I select one of the media scenarios?  The reason I ask is that it sends the command to my receiver first, then the hdmi input change to the TV, which automatically changes the receiver back, so I need to send the codes in the reverse order.  I've looked everywhere I can think of in the web-admin so I'm guessing this must be somewhere else, a config file somewhere maybe??  (or somewhere I missed)

When I click on "resend IR codes" in the orbiter I see the commands there, I just want to send them in a different order.

On a seperate note, for anybody that has a Panasonic TV, there is a complete list of discrete codes available here, which were a real find, especially for being able to select an input and not have to scroll through them.

ftp://ftp.panasonic.com/pub/Panasonic/Drivers/Monitors/Discrete-remote-control-codesProntoCCFformat.pdf

Cheers.
Matt.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: hdmi cec

« on: February 25, 2011, 10:16:00 am »

Damn, I wish I'd seen this a week ago, my USBUIRT is on its way, and could now be redundant before its even arrived!

Whats the status of this in LinuxMCE at the moment, will it be PNP now or in the very near future?

Everything in my media system is via HDMI so I'm very keen on seeing this work.  I use one of the 'NEET' HDMI 5 way switches for everything which is a great little device btw, it allows the control signals through even for those devices which aren't selected.

Hmm, actually remember seeing a template for a HDMI-CEC interface, number 2163.  Is that for this device?

Matt.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Send audio from video to Squeezebox or simillar?

« on: February 25, 2011, 09:34:49 am »

I always listen to Sky News in the morning, would be great to be able to listen to it whilst I'm in the shower and getting ready for work.  Thats my reason.

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Send audio from video to Squeezebox or simillar?

« on: February 24, 2011, 04:17:16 pm »

Bump..

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Users / Re: MythTV location info

« on: February 24, 2011, 11:19:14 am »

Hmm, so leaving Myth for a while.... is it possible to get the Dusky Sky controller working independantly of MythTV?  As I mentioned before my Myth setup isn't working properly, but I can stream the live TV from the sky box through the HD PVR.  Trouble is I have to pop into the other room to change the channels. (USB UIRT on order still)  I have the Dusky controller plugged in, but its never been setup.  Can I use this by setting it in the Sky+ template somehow?

Thanks.

Matt.

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Users / Re: Y-Cam Camera

« on: February 23, 2011, 03:57:25 pm »

Hi Matt,

When I tried to add the camera as a direct child of the core I had to choose the generic IP camera template, as there still isn't one for the Y-CAM in the list.  I'm not sure whatever happened to the template you created, but its not on my list.  I'd have preferred to just use the camera without motion, as it already has motion detection software built in, but I was just glad to get it working so its staying as it is for now.  I am going to have to adjust the refresh rate I think, as I am used to viewing it as a camera, not as a series of stills(I know its the same thing, but when you view it from a browser it refreshes itself seemlessly)

I've had mine for 18 months now, and its been faultless.  The only slight gripe is that it uses an activeX script to refresh with a browser, and my old mobile phone couldn't function with this so I couldn't view it on my phone over the home wifi.  Still it works great on the IPad, and now with MCE too.  I like the fact that you can log into it too, mine's always been in the boy's bedroom, so I could see him when I'm working overseas.  This should still work unless the router on the core fails.

Recommended.

Matt.

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Installation issues / Re: Gyration Remote keys all wacky

« on: February 23, 2011, 10:39:38 am »

I have the gyration music remote, the one with the little lcd screen at the top, it works fine apart from the windows button.  This doesn't bring up the main menu like it does with the windowsMCE remote.  Does anybody else have a gyration remote where the windows button works, is there a fix for this, or is it just mine?  Its a real problem when my media freezes and I have to go find a keyboard to plug in to get the menu up so that I can switch the media off.

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Users / Re: Y-Cam Camera

« on: February 23, 2011, 10:22:38 am »

Success!

After my success with the webcam I tried adding the Y-CAM IP camera as a child device of 'Motion' too (using the generic IP camera template), and after setting the path in the template as suggested by cht_winston it started working.  Now I'm not sure what has changed, as I tried this last week and never got a picture, but as of last night it was working a treat.  It needed a core restart to get it to work properly, perhaps thats what was missing last time I tried it, but I'm happy to say that its functional.  I also tried to add it as a child of the core without motion, but this still didn't work.  Don't know why.

Matt.

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Users / MythTV location info / Dusky controller

« on: February 21, 2011, 01:02:24 pm »

I've been struggling to get MythTV working since the beginning of my LinuxMCE install, but decided to give it a real go over the next few days.  I have a question regarding the information that MythTV uses about my location.

I'm currently in Northern Poland, so I setup my location in LinuxMCE to the nearest big town as normal when installing, however I've got a sky HD box receiving UK channels.  MythTV tells me that there is no information regarding schedules for my location because I assume its trying to get Polish schedules.  Is it possible to set the MythTV location seperately to the LinuxMCE location??

Another question...
When I plugged my sky box into the Hauppauge HD PVR, a seperate scenario button was created on my media menu (Live TV Sky+).  As I have never setup MythTV from the start it must be bypassing it, and streaming the picture straight from the box when I press this button.  If I want to integrate it all into Myth so that I can record shows etc, do I have to remove this scenario, or will a correct setup of Myth make this work anyway? (Does that make sense?)

TIA

Matt.

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Users / Re: WD Mybook World

« on: February 21, 2011, 12:31:40 pm »

I managed to get some time over the weekend to have a play in the webadmin, and managed some success with this.  I've posted this in case anybody else has similar problems where their NAS is added ok, but their media doesn't show up in the orbiter...

I found that in Webadmin you have an option under 'Files and Media' for 'Media Files Sync'
In here you can select your NAS drive and it shows whether your files have been added to the database.  Mine weren't, the little symbol next to them was of a drive, not a little check-mark (tick).  By clicking the synchronize button, MCE popped up another window and did some synchronising.  This actually took quite a long time as there were a lot of files there.  However once it was finished, I reloaded the router, regened the orbiters and the files appeared.  I had even tried copying some movies straight into the \Home\Public\data\Videos directory previously and they still hadn't appeared, but after synchronizing they appeared too.

I took the opportunity to get the coverart for my missing dvd rips too, although you'd be amazed at some of the movies that aren't there!  Mission Impossible 2 for example isn't there, and even the search couldn't find it.  Anyway, if you've come across this thread because you're stuck with your own NAS problem, I hope it helps.

Matt.

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Users / Re: Y-Cam Camera

« on: February 18, 2011, 10:06:08 pm »

I'm revisiting this again as I'm now keen to get the camera working.  I've just checked and template 2163 is now there, however its for something else entirely (a HDMI-CEC interface)

The only device template for Y-CAM is 2156 which is for a Cine 2 capture card??!!

Is it possible that a couple of new templates have gotten mixed up along the way somewhere?

I did have some success with an old webcam though, it wouldn't work on any windows version newer than XP, but added it in MOTION as per the wiki and it worked straight away. Result!

Now back to the IP camera....

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Compatible Products & Services / Re: Possible New Hardware: Sony 400 Disc Blu Ray Changer

« on: February 17, 2011, 09:30:41 am »

I know that the Sony one is classed as region A for Blu-ray, I have Blu-ray from all over the place, some are region B, some are A, and some have nothing at all.  They work on my panasonic, and the playstation, but I only have around 100 Blu-rays discs so was going to fill the rest of the changer up with DVD's.  For me it wasn't worth the risk of buying the jukebox and shipping it back to Poland in case it turned out to be another expensive paperweight!  Shame because I was really excited about getting one.  Nobody else seems to make one, guess they're not in great demand.