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Users / Re: HDHomeRun-Dual vs. WinTV-HVR-2250 vs. HD-5500

« on: January 13, 2011, 09:05:26 pm »

With your wireless broadband can it be run through a USB? (Not sure what you run in the US)

Over here I have a 3G USB modem which I plug directly into a Billion Wireless 4 port GB Router. That in turn is connected directly into the external network for the core.

Also as an alternative to freeNAS have a quick look at unRAID. I find it is very good for media storage although I have read (never tried it) that mythTV doesn't like recording to rieserFS. I'm getting a HDHomeRun and planning on recording TV directly to the core as I don't keep my recordings.

Josh

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Users / Re: WebDT security and network question

« on: January 13, 2011, 05:06:16 am »

Thanks Thom, I did read all the work you did to get the webDt going and I must say thank you very much to yourself and hari too for the work you put into this.

the balticnetworks card looks interesting except in Australia the closest one I can find is about $350US which is a bit much. Unless I can find another PCMCIA card I might just have to run WEP and see if I can turn off the SSID broadcast and run MAC filtering.

thanks Josh

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Users / WebDT security and network question

« on: January 12, 2011, 09:24:04 pm »

Hi guys,

Would like to install the webDT orbiter image as looks really nice but I have 2 questions:

1) My internal network is currently set at 192.168.1.xxx as I ported a few static IP stuff from my previous network. I've read the forum posts and wiki about setting up the network settings and I believe it is set to the core at 192.168.80.1 by default. Is there a method/steps to change this?

2) With the cisco 350 it only supports WEP. Does anyone know of any PCMCIA cards that a plug and play into the WebDT 366 that will support WPA2? I read that WEP is fairly weak but in reality how bad is it?

Thanks Josh

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Users / Re: PLCBUS/Z wave and rocker switches

« on: January 09, 2011, 10:33:56 pm »

Thanks guys,

smarthome.com.au said should do and the reply I have from plcbus is that it should with the control wire:
>When you install the micro module in the wall switch backbox , it have a
> control wire (from the micro module) connect to your existing Rocker Switch.
> And the Rocker Switch just toggle the On\Off status.
> That mean , if now the Lamp is ON
> When you press the Rocker Switch ( Whatever the current position is On or
> Off ) , the lamps will become OFF
> And then when you send ON command , the lamps will turn ON
> And then when you press the Rocker Switch , then lamps will turn OFF

I'll give it a try once I get the tv recording setup.
thanks Josh

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Users / PLCBUS/Z wave and rocker switches

« on: December 31, 2010, 07:24:12 am »

Hi All,

Considering either the PLCBUS or Z-wave for Australia and I'd like to keep my current external light switches and add the in-wall modules. Makes WAF better if she can still operate the light switches.

Does anyone know with the rocker style switches or open/close switches whether either PLCBUS or Z wave will detect the position of the switch and send back the required info?
I asked www.smarthome.com.au if the light switch was open or off if the module would still operate the light and their answer was 'it should' but I'd like to be a bit more certain before buying. What about with the PLCBUS?

Any pros and cons with Australian users? The Z wave market seems fairly small here.

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Network Setup question

« on: December 31, 2010, 12:13:41 am »

Okay reinstalled LinuxMCE as I had another issue pop up and started from scratch.

Set router to 192.168.2.254, external card to auto obtain
Internal card to 192.168.1.254 (old address for router)

And everything seems to work so far. Everything can connect to the internet so not sure what happened before.

I ran ifconfig before the reinstall and the ext card came up with a different IP address (not the same range as the router) so that would have been the reason it didn't connect to the internet the first time around but don't know how it got assigned that wrong IP address. (It was something crazy like 128.236.x.x) Not sure why but it all works now.

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Network Setup question

« on: December 28, 2010, 09:07:35 am »

Thanks wierdbeard.

IP address was only in a browser, just trying to access the web admin pages first. Checking I hadn't typed anything wrong was next on the list and then I'll try Pinging and ifconfig.

LMCE mentions that with the new IP address that the router restarts so didn't know about rebooting but I can try that as well when I get some time.

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Network Setup question

« on: December 27, 2010, 11:05:52 pm »

Okay,

First hurdle, can't connect to the internet from the core directly.

I've set the router to 192.168.1.254, core's external card to both obtain automatically and static:
192.168.1.1 (and 192.168.1.10)
subnet: 255.255.255.0
DNS and gateway 192.168.1.254

Internal card at 192.168.80.254

On the core I can get to both 192.168.1.1 and 192.168.80.254 for the linuxmce admin page but not the router at 192.168.1.254

Checking the router, the core doesn't show up on the DHCP tables (when core set to obtain)

Internet works from laptop (192.168.1.3) through router.

I suspect the core isn't getting to the router and hence the internet?
Am I doing something/setting something wrong?

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Network Setup question

« on: December 27, 2010, 10:18:45 am »

Okay,

I'm happy to give it a try but I don't really know too much about finding and decoding faults. My coding skill are non-existent. I'll play around with it though.

Josh

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Installation issues / Network Setup question

« on: December 27, 2010, 01:37:45 am »

Hi All,

I had an existing router/wireless/modem with IP 192.168.1.254 and home network on 192.168.1.xxx

Migrating the network to LinuxMCE, I set up a hybrid core with external IP card 192.168.1.1 which is auto assigned by the same router.
The Internal card is set to 192.168.80.1 which is plugged into a switch with all the old devices

Is it possible to change the internal network to 192.168.1.254 (and maybe change the external network IP) because I have about 15 devices all with static IP address (all logically addressed and a server that is headless so it is easier for me leave IP addresses as is) or am I better off changing all devices to DHCP?

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: snapshot 23426

« on: November 12, 2010, 06:02:23 am »

Same hear.

I think I got it to install by changing the sources.list as per http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=10901.0

I then reran the install linuxmce.sh with the cources.list that came with the image.

It all loaded up but got stuck on a loop trying to install mythtv and I ended up having the reboot.

Josh

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Installation issues / Re: snapshot 23426

« on: November 10, 2010, 12:32:07 pm »

Hi Maybeoneday,

So after the Kubuntu install you edited the sources.list before running Linuxmce installer.

When you said edited sources.list what did you change?

Just the .archive and .security to .old-release?

If you don't mind would you even be able to post your sources.list?

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: snapshot 23426

« on: November 10, 2010, 11:10:26 am »

temp solution
It works, installs fine, could not verify if everything works.
Please help to test this.

does that mean that it will install all the required parts but some may be outdated or will some parts be missing?

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Install from DVD errors.

« on: November 07, 2010, 10:59:58 pm »

So I assume accourding to the svn that hopefully we should have a new one with correct sources.list in a few days.

I think I'll wait and give that a go then as I've spent a whole day reinstalling this a few times and was about to give up and go back to mythbuntu.

Thanks Josh

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Installation issues / Re: Install from DVD errors.

« on: November 07, 2010, 09:14:36 pm »

hi kuky,

not sure what you've tried as I'm a bit confused.

you saying with 23359 you edited the sources list and didn't work or it did? Same with 23388?

After my install and editing the sources.list I get this error:

Err http://old-releases.ubuntu.com intrepid-security/main mysql-slient-5.0 5.0.67-ubuntu6.1
   404 not found

Same for the mysql-server

It then runs post-install.sh and then removes a hole lot of files from /etc/

Thanks Josh