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Users / Re: Why VPN (was: setup qorbiter to be used from ouside internal network i.e. across town)

« on: November 27, 2013, 06:47:22 pm »

I tried for a long time to get it working and then gave up: http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php/topic,12928.0.html

After a couple of brute force attacks against the Asterisk server I installed Fail2ban per the wiki which seems to work against this sort of attack (and I have locked myself out a couple of times!): http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Fail2ban_-_A_tool_against_brute_force

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Users / Re: DirecTV Genie

« on: September 25, 2013, 01:34:45 am »

post away or create a wiki page for the code and I will go from there.  I don't have the equipment yet but will at weekend

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Users / DirecTV Genie

« on: September 24, 2013, 09:28:25 pm »

Has anybody made a template for the Genie?

It has IP control

See http://www.satinstalltraining.com/homeautomation/DTV-MD-0359-DIRECTV_SHEF_Command_Set-V1.3.C.pdf for protocol sheet

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Users / Re: Fios and LMCE

« on: September 18, 2013, 11:43:22 pm »

I have my components in the basement and the tv in the living room. In cold weather I get some issues with hdcp handshake meaning the screen flashes on and off. I am using 25ft mono price inwall rated net jacket HDMI cables. I am going to add ferrite beads and possibly a HDMI repeater. The other thing you will notice is that long HDMI cables are heavy and put strain on your HDMI ports. Take a look at mono prices strain relief adapters that are tighter than the spec and screw into the screw above your port to ensure a strain relieved connection

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Users / Re: CEC - Anyone (for Denon AVR 1909)

« on: September 18, 2013, 02:18:20 pm »

I love my Onkyo.  It did have me scratching my head a while though trying to get zone 2 working, I then read that zone 2 must have an analogue input, even if zone 1 and zone 2 are on the same input.  this is another battle - linuxmce outputing analogue and digital audio.

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Users / Re: Fios and LMCE

« on: September 18, 2013, 02:14:17 pm »

Just bought a house and getting ready to start LMCE deployment...I would like to have 3MD and 2 Fios STB and 1 DVR box wired into one closet.  Can I use just one USB-UIRT to send all the signals to the boxes.  if my orbiter is set to control say...the living room, is the md or core smart enough to know not to change the channel on the bedroom STB...any suggestions?

For this setup, you will need to use a GC-100, because the system will need to distinguish one cable box from another, and a set of Xantech IR emitters.

-Thom

Thom,
couldn't he just have 3 USB-UIRT's one connected to each MD controlling one of the Cable boxes?

Stash_CEO,
how are you going to get the video signal to the screens and control the screens/volume etc?

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Users / Re: asus nx 1101

« on: September 13, 2013, 02:28:31 pm »

I had that card in my Core for years, it worked out of the box - through 7.10 and 8.10.  I may still have it in my 10.04 core, I will have to check when I get home - I am away right now

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Users / Re: Kickstarter Campaign to fund a programmer?

« on: September 13, 2013, 02:20:50 pm »

I would love Thom to work for LMCE full time and will contribute.  Somebody mentioned a subscription model.  I would think of it more as a club membership - pledges of $100 sound great (and are) but would anybody miss $5-10 per week?

Equally, Thom has just been working on a contract for my company for the last 6-12 months that has just finished.  He did a great job, if your company has any contract work that can be done remotely, then throw him a line!!

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

« on: July 10, 2013, 07:52:45 pm »

the Filtrete 3M-50 is about 7 inches, so that wont fit

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Users / Re: New to Linux

« on: June 14, 2013, 04:26:35 am »

I have been sending some of my stuff to my ftp site using duplicity.  here is an example of the contents of a file called backup.sh i created:

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# help for this file can be found in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DuplicityBackupHowto
export PASSPHRASE=somethinghard
export FTP_PASSWORD=somethinghard
# Check to see if we're at the first of the month.
# If we are on the 1st day of the month, then run
# a full backup.  If not, then run an incremental
# backup.
if [ $date = 01 ]
then
        duplicity full /home/public/data/pictures/931.51\ GB\ \(sda1\)\ SAMSUNG_HD103\ \[39\]/ ftp://myftplogin/photos #>>/var/log/duplicity/photos.log
else
        duplicity /home/public/data/pictures/931.51\ GB\ \(sda1\)\ SAMSUNG_HD103\ \[39\]/ ftp://myftplogin/photos #>>/var/log/duplicity/photos.log
fi
# Check http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/duplicity.1.html
# for all the options available for Duplicity.

# Deleting old backups
  duplicity remove-older-than 2M --force ftp://myftplogin/photos #>>/var/log/duplicity/photos.log
# Unsetting the confidential variables so they are
# gone for sure.
unset PASSPHRASE
unset FTP_PASSWORD
set PASSPHRASE and FTP_PASSWORD to something hard, I have used "somethinghard" in this example.  also replace the mtplogin with yours also. 

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Users / Re: New apartment - retrofitting

« on: June 12, 2013, 08:12:05 pm »

http://www.zwave4u.com/index.php

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Users / Re: youtube and the Blueman group [solved-partly]

« on: June 01, 2013, 04:25:28 pm »

I have this same problem and fixed it with:

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cd /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer || cd /usr/lib/adobe-flashplugin/
sudo perl -pi.bak -e 's/libvdpau/lixvdpau/g' libflashplayer.so

Works well for me

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Users / Re: Updated Template list

« on: May 12, 2013, 01:14:12 am »

that threw an error:

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Updating (update) row id 2382 last sync: 2381
01 05/11/13 18:09:38.622 Query failed (Duplicate entry '2231' for key 'PRIMARY'): UPDATE `DeviceTemplate` SET `CommandLine`=NULL, `Comments`=NULL, `ConfigureScript`=NULL, `Define`='', `Description`='Tuner - OTARadio', `DestinationDir`=NULL, `FK_CommMethod`=NULL, `FK_DeviceCategory`='103', `FK_Distro`=NULL, `FK_InfraredGroup`=NULL, `FK_Licensing`=NULL, `FK_Manufacturer`='185', `FK_OperatingSystem`=NULL, `FK_Package`=NULL, `FK_PnpLevel`=NULL, `FK_StabilityStatus`=NULL, `FK_Users_Maintainer`='1', `HelpURL`=NULL, `IRFrequency`=NULL, `ImplementsDCE`='0', `InheritsMacFromPC`='0', `InternalURLSuffix`=NULL, `IsEmbedded`='0', `IsIPBased`='0', `IsPlugAndPlay`='0', `IsPlugIn`='0', `ManufacturerURL`=NULL, `PK_DeviceTemplate`='2231', `WizardURL`=NULL, `psc_frozen`=NULL, `psc_restrict`=NULL, psc_batch=3855, psc_user=39176 WHERE psc_id=2382 (1) <0xb774f6d0>
05 05/11/13 18:09:38.622 Resetting mysql connection <0xb774f6d0>
01 05/11/13 18:09:38.627 Query failed (Duplicate entry '2231' for key 'PRIMARY'): UPDATE `DeviceTemplate` SET `CommandLine`=NULL, `Comments`=NULL, `ConfigureScript`=NULL, `Define`='', `Description`='Tuner - OTARadio', `DestinationDir`=NULL, `FK_CommMethod`=NULL, `FK_DeviceCategory`='103', `FK_Distro`=NULL, `FK_InfraredGroup`=NULL, `FK_Licensing`=NULL, `FK_Manufacturer`='185', `FK_OperatingSystem`=NULL, `FK_Package`=NULL, `FK_PnpLevel`=NULL, `FK_StabilityStatus`=NULL, `FK_Users_Maintainer`='1', `HelpURL`=NULL, `IRFrequency`=NULL, `ImplementsDCE`='0', `InheritsMacFromPC`='0', `InternalURLSuffix`=NULL, `IsEmbedded`='0', `IsIPBased`='0', `IsPlugAndPlay`='0', `IsPlugIn`='0', `ManufacturerURL`=NULL, `PK_DeviceTemplate`='2231', `WizardURL`=NULL, `psc_frozen`=NULL, `psc_restrict`=NULL, psc_batch=3855, psc_user=39176 WHERE psc_id=2382 (1) <0xb774f6d0>
05 05/11/13 18:09:38.627 Resetting mysql connection <0xb774f6d0>
01 05/11/13 18:09:38.628 Query failed (): UPDATE `DeviceTemplate` SET `CommandLine`=NULL, `Comments`=NULL, `ConfigureScript`=NULL, `Define`='', `Description`='Tuner - OTARadio', `DestinationDir`=NULL, `FK_CommMethod`=NULL, `FK_DeviceCategory`='103', `FK_Distro`=NULL, `FK_InfraredGroup`=NULL, `FK_Licensing`=NULL, `FK_Manufacturer`='185', `FK_OperatingSystem`=NULL, `FK_Package`=NULL, `FK_PnpLevel`=NULL, `FK_StabilityStatus`=NULL, `FK_Users_Maintainer`='1', `HelpURL`=NULL, `IRFrequency`=NULL, `ImplementsDCE`='0', `InheritsMacFromPC`='0', `InternalURLSuffix`=NULL, `IsEmbedded`='0', `IsIPBased`='0', `IsPlugAndPlay`='0', `IsPlugIn`='0', `ManufacturerURL`=NULL, `PK_DeviceTemplate`='2231', `WizardURL`=NULL, `psc_frozen`=NULL, `psc_restrict`=NULL, psc_batch=3855, psc_user=39176 WHERE psc_id=2382 retry: -1 <0xb774f6d0>
Failed to update row: UPDATE `DeviceTemplate` SET `CommandLine`=NULL, `Comments`=NULL, `ConfigureScript`=NULL, `Define`='', `Description`='Tuner - OTARadio', `DestinationDir`=NULL, `FK_CommMethod`=NULL, `FK_DeviceCategory`='103', `FK_Distro`=NULL, `FK_InfraredGroup`=NULL, `FK_Licensing`=NULL, `FK_Manufacturer`='185', `FK_OperatingSystem`=NULL, `FK_Package`=NULL, `FK_PnpLevel`=NULL, `FK_StabilityStatus`=NULL, `FK_Users_Maintainer`='1', `HelpURL`=NULL, `IRFrequency`=NULL, `ImplementsDCE`='0', `InheritsMacFromPC`='0', `InternalURLSuffix`=NULL, `IsEmbedded`='0', `IsIPBased`='0', `IsPlugAndPlay`='0', `IsPlugIn`='0', `ManufacturerURL`=NULL, `PK_DeviceTemplate`='2231', `WizardURL`=NULL, `psc_frozen`=NULL, `psc_restrict`=NULL, psc_batch=3855, psc_user=39176 WHERE psc_id=2382
Transaction 0xbfa75ebc is open.  Rolling back
System error: Rolling back an incomplete transaction
Doing a rollback
Update threw exception: Failed to insert row


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Users / Re: Updated Template list

« on: May 10, 2013, 04:05:42 pm »

yes.

I mentioned this to TSCHAK last night and he said it might have something to do with some database changes that have been made recently

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Users / Re: Setting Up External and Internal Wireless Networks

« on: May 09, 2013, 11:50:27 pm »

for starters, I would suggest configuring your internal device per the instructions:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Linksys_WRT54G

differences being - turning off the firewall and setting the IP address within the allowed range of LMCE (192.168.80.129-254 as std)