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I've worked on a similar solution some years ago on an early build of 8.10 using KVM virtualization.  I was really interested in a single system supporting multiple TV's back then.  I had a motherboard with 3 PCI-x slots and put 3 cards in it and done VGA passthrough to 3 VM's.  Each of these I PXE booted MD's on.  I had some trouble getting the graphics to work, but I was able to get UI1 working pretty easily and had some success with UI2 masking before I got to busy and let this project lay dormant.

IMHO this would be my strongest opinion of how to build such a very unsupported configuration.  I was working with existing hardware I had.  I believe with enough experimentation to get the right motherboard one could get as many as 6 different VM MD's running this way.  You'd still need quite a bit of umff to handle this.  I was running on an single processor system.  My plan was, in the event this worked well, was to put this on a motherboard with dual Xeon's or dual i7's now, with 6 or so PCI-x slots.

I'd really like to be able to do passthrough of each HDMI/DVI output independent of the card.  This would let me have 2 or 3 MD's per card.  In this case one might have between 12 and 18 MD's on a single system.  And with LMCE core running on the metal, and installing the KVM kernel and parts one might build out a fairly large deployment on a single system.

In my use case, the LMCE core remained on an independent server, with only my test VM MD's on this virtualized box.

I would love love love to see LMCE embrace KVM or Xen.  Run each of the pieces of the core, Asterisk, DCE, etc in independent VM's.  This could do such things as allow each MD box to be a member of a cluster, and the core services could migrate between the least busy MD boxes.  I had this dream of trying to build out LMCE with MD's on my OpenStack cluster, but have never had time to really test this type of deployment.

All that to say, I work for a cloud service provider, working with virtualization everyday, it would be a huge, huge undertaking to re-architect LMCE to work this way fundamentally.  It would also require systems that had the VM bits in hardware, VTd VTx, etc, would require much different hardware than the light weight stuff we are all striving for, etc.

If someone really wants to support multiple MD's off of a single box however, this might be the most approachable solution.  Considering that the core runs pretty well as a VM now.

Still tinkering with the admin, trying to figure this out.....whatever i do the issue remains the same: i select a channel on the orbiter...myth changes but no IR signal sent from the usbuirt to the receiver. the only time a signal is sent is when i go into the resend a/v codes advanced option.  do i have the receiver under the correct device, i.e. the usbuirt?

I'd say your ds box needs to be in a room and EA.

thanks for the reply posde, i did catch that and select a room with no joy right after my original post. I saw this post which is what i'm trying to replicate, am i missing something:
I created a template for my satellite receivers, and part of that process was using the original remotes to teach the system the codes. This is the first thing I used the usb-uirt for.

"Once the template is created, you can then integrate it into your system. Where my core is, I have 2 sat. receivers, a roku netflix player, and a usb-uirt. After creating templates for each device, and learning the respective codes into thesystem by using the usb-uirt and the original remotes, I then assigned each device to a pvr150 card on my core, the next step was assigning each sat box to a tuner for mythtv use.

After these were all added/set up through the setup wizard and sarah, I just started building MD's. Now any MD in the house can control the receivers or the roku netflix player through the core.

Signal is sent from MD to the core to start Live TV, and then it just knows from there, which receiver/device to use, and stream across the network.

I have 3 usb-uirt's but I only use one of them to control my receivers and the roku box. The others are on MD's to control AV equipment and the TV's attached to the MD.

Hope that helps clear things up.

Regards,

Seth"

If i select resend A/V codes and select the advance option for the mythtv and select the codes from there it does send the command and works.....how do i do this?
p.s. i saw your paypal link for a coffee, which i'm more than happy to do since you helped me with the zwave a few years back, and i appreciated that. what is the email address for the paypal, because i can't do i through that link.  

Hi all,

just recently bought a EZMotion 3 in 1 PIR to make a start with the security side of things. After having some trouble adding the sensor to my ZCU010 zwave controller I am now in the situation where the system has detected the dectector, but as a Generic Sensor, under template Motion Detector #54.

Status reported is ON/255, allways 

According to the wiki, http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Express_Controls_EZmotion_%28HSM_100%29, it should be reported as a multisensor.

Wondering where to go from here as adding stuff like described in the wiki does not lead up to working sensors.

I have attached a log; 1,2 and 3 are homepro dimmers; 4 is the EZMotion and 5 is my ZTH200.

Maybe someone can give me a hint on what to try next?

kr

Han

I'd say your ds box needs to be in a room and EA.

here's the first floor floorplan if anybody needs and idea of what i'm doing

Fellas, kind of confused here. I have my core which has the pvr, usbuirt, and the directv sat reciever. I created a template which works.  The tv in the family room has a MD with gyration remote and i use the windows orbiter, but neither sends the command to the usbirt to change the channel on the core or the md.  can you guys take a look at my admin setup and tell me where i went wrong. the template is the "disone" added under the usbuirt. everything including schedulesdirect is setup.  I can send a command in the admin and it works but nothing happens when i use an orbiter.  Thanks in advance.   

Hello

sorry for the delay, I was away for a couple of weeks. I just ran the latest updates and I can confirm the problem is still there.

I've enabled Remote Assistance now, please take a look and let me know how I can assist (I'll email you the access code).

Thanks !
Alex

Sorry I didn't get in touch with Hari and try to sort this out.

I suspect it may work with Linuxmce,  but for Dianemo some of the config panels I appear to need are not available to me.

Will get in touch with Hari in the near future and try again.

what plugin module is that?

Did you check the logs for any errors?

The plugin module is this one http://www.uk-automation.co.uk/products/Z-Wave-Appliance-plug-by-TKBHome.html

I didn't check the logs for errors, I will report back if I try again. The operation of the module itself seemed to be fine, it was just the light wasn't behaving as expected.

I had an odd similar issue with one Z-wave module that supported load detection.  My guess would be that like the Z-wave module, the security light needs constant power to keep its detection circuitry alive.  This draw could be telling the module that local power (via Amp draw) is requested.

I am fairly familiar with some of your other projects so will recommend getting a meter and experimenting/testing to see how much draw the light needs.  Perhaps there is a way in the zwave-api to turn off certain features like local load switching? 

To get around it another way you could use the zwave module to turn off a relay placed between the devices.  Wired normally open this would allow you to kill attached devices regardless of any 'leaked-power' they try and pull.  Good Luck.

Yes I wondered if it was something like that, basically keeping the light on. I also had a similar thought about relays/switches. Not sure what that would look like though, might not end up looking that elegant.

I have now removed the plugin module, and the light doesn't turn off properly now anyway! I don't know if the plug-in module fried/damaged something in the light. It's no biggie, these lights are going to be replaced anyway, this was just a stop gap until such a time. Maybe I should consider a z-wave PIR module and use a "normal" light on a z-wave switch, then I can have complete control over dimming, security mode, etc.

Cheers,
Matt.