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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 08, 2007, 01:38:50 am »
Hi Darren,

Thanks for your input... One of the things that has attracted me towards pluto is the Orbiter feature... (not so much the Mobile Orbitters, as imho, they are more gimmicks than real useful remotes, at least in my current conception)... the tablets/PDAs and other devices, however, are really cool, and would fit in perfectly with what I'd like to get working...

Further, the home automation part interests me because the application I'd like to use pluto on already has a full automation system, which could most probably be interfaced rather easily with Pluto.  

Nonetheless, since the home automation part would require a specific driver to be developped, etc, I'm more worried about getting something nice media-wise, and if possible also integrating Sony IP Cameras (I'm about to get reading on creating a Pluto template for it)...

I was under the impression that pluto was already working fairly well, however, which seems to be a big misconception based on the pluto website, and feature list (which led me to believe that it was really "ready" to handle all of the mentioned stuff)...

Oh well, I'm going to give it a bit more time, or eventually will have to move on yet again....

EDIT: One more thing, the network booting media directors are an amazing concept, and very positive in my analysis of what i'd like to see in a system...

thanks for your input though!

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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 07, 2007, 11:50:01 pm »
Hi,

My suggestion would be to wait.
If you really want a stable version then that may still be some time.
Pluto have only been releasing development versions to date and my understanding is that they are now endeavouring to stabalise the code base for an official release.

This makes it hard to use at the moment as due to its nature it prefers to be the hub of the whole household, looking after internet traffic, firewalls etc so when it is not working it can be a real issue.

If you are only or at least primarily interested in media distribution you might want to just look at a MythTV installation only. There is a fair deal of information on using it and even complete distributions that make it easy to setup. This is the software that Pluto uses for this part of its functionaility as well.

Keep an eye on these forums to see how stable the next release is and you may want to give it a try then based on your assessment of the risk.

I don't want to sound too negative about it, just an attempt to manage expectations for what is still developing software.

Regards
Darren

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Bluetooth Dongle / Bluetooth dongle install in endless loop
« on: February 07, 2007, 05:44:13 pm »
I've just picked up a low end bluetooth dongle from SDG (ES-388).
When I plugged it into my MD it would repeatedly cycle through messages saying that it had disabled, removed and added the dongle.  It kept doing this until I physically removed the dongle.  

here is the error message that I am seeing over and over in the syslog
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Feb  7 06:49:33 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 13
Feb  7 06:49:33 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 down
Feb  7 06:49:33 moon90 hcid[9825]: Stopping security manager 0
Feb  7 06:49:33 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 unregistered
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 14
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 registered
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 last message repeated 6 times
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 up
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 hcid[9825]: Starting security manager 0
Feb  7 06:49:34 moon90 kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92
Feb  7 06:49:37 moon90 last message repeated 862 times
Feb  7 06:49:37 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 14
Feb  7 06:49:37 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 down
Feb  7 06:49:37 moon90 hcid[9825]: Stopping security manager 0
Feb  7 06:49:37 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 unregistered
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 15
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 kernel: usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 registered
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 last message repeated 6 times
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 hcid[9825]: HCI dev 0 up
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 hcid[9825]: Starting security manager 0
Feb  7 06:49:38 moon90 kernel: hci_scodata_packet: hci0 SCO packet for unknown connection handle 92
Feb  7 06:49:40 moon90 last message repeated 429 times

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Pluto Main General Issues / Supported hardware
« on: February 07, 2007, 05:28:18 pm »
Hello!
I'm planning my first Pluto install and I am wondering about hardware on which it would work as much effortlessly as possible. I want to deploy  1 Core   + 1 Media Director. I already have pretty powerfull fileserver with Core 2 Duo processor and 2,3 TB raid 6 array. Now I just want to add 2 dvb-t cards to the fileserver and install pluto throuh Xen virtualization on the same machine. As media director I would like to use mac mini as it is very compact and at an affordable price. Will this configuration work? And which dvb-t cards (available in Europe) work best? I have one dvb-t card that I use in computer with Myth TV, but this card can tune all multiplexes only with kernel 2.6.17 and up, and pluto uses kernel 2.6.16. Thanks for any suggestions, links, experiences.

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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 07, 2007, 04:14:39 pm »
Thanks for your help! I did install .42 last night and after messing for a while noticed it had said .43....

I'll try reinstalling without internet...

thanks!

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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 07, 2007, 09:38:47 am »
@RoyN

If you install the 2.0.0.42 release it will probably try and upgrade itself via the internet during install so if you just want to test it out, disable internet access on the core until it is fully installed.  The you can disable the update feature from within pluto web admin.

NOS

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Pluto Main Installation & IR codes / First-Time Install - Lots of questions
« on: February 07, 2007, 07:44:42 am »
hmm, tried all the suggestions above and tried the .41 install and still no go. I am in the process of building a dedicated core but i really want to become familiar with it first. Perhaps i will wait for the .44 release and see if that solves any of these issues. Any other help or suggestions would be most appreciated. Cheers.

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Pluto Main General Issues / Stable version?
« on: February 07, 2007, 03:55:19 am »
Sorry Roy,

I am not sure what one to recommend...I have only run .43 and it is buggy.  .44 should be out anyday.  It was on the ftp site yesterday but is no longer there.  There must  have been issues.  I am disapointed in the level of information the makers provide on current status...Better I guess they are coding than reporting to us though :)

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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 07, 2007, 03:51:04 am »
You mean .42?  Which one is the generally regarded as stable?

The one I got and I was told is unstable is .43... I'm currently downloading .42 as I understand that that one has less "new features"...

Let me know if for Audio/Video only an even older version is better....

thanks a lot!

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Pluto Main General Issues / wow must have been an issue with .44
« on: February 07, 2007, 03:48:35 am »
It was there I promise!  I downloaded it yesterday.  No longer on ftp site...sorry for the miss information

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Pluto Main General Issues / .44 on ftp site
« on: February 07, 2007, 03:45:59 am »

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Pluto Main General Issues / Problem in installation - hangs downloading
« on: February 07, 2007, 02:50:16 am »
Oh... I was unaware that this build was less stable than the previous ones...

I would like to test out a stable version.  Initially I'll only be using Audio/Video on demand (basically one central core with media storage, and being played from media driectors around the installation)... Am I correct in assuming that this will work with DVDs, including menus, closed captions, languages, etc?

Where can I obtain the "stable" version?

Thanks a bunch!

PS: perhaps it would be a good thing to include in the main download page a link to the "stable" and to the "current" release...

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Pluto Main Installation & IR codes / Thanks
« on: February 07, 2007, 12:44:00 am »
Thanks for the reply...I will try UI1 and see if that helps...One of my problems is I can't read some of the menus as they blend into the background too much.  Maybe the UI1 will be better.  I also asked if there was a way to upgrade to .44 with no responses...I see the iso on the ftp site but don't really want to reload everything.

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Pluto Main Installation & IR codes / First-Time Install - Lots of questions
« on: February 07, 2007, 12:38:29 am »
Yopu can also escape from the AV Wizard using CTRL-C if memory serves me corretly.  I had to do this on an older release and manually correct my Xorg.conf file, and use driver utilities to set tv out etc

NOS

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@wslee,

I can understand your frustration with the support aspect of the site as I too have posted what I thought were general questions and received no response, however the system is free and is produced by a commercial organisation whos focus is obviously on the development aspects.

In general the product is still a beta version and hence support is through the community of users, documentation could be better but to be honest I have found the user interface to be very intutive and therefore the lack of documentation is not generaly an issue.

Have a play and experiment with Pluto and I am sure you will find it to be a great product which can only improve over time.

In terms of your question just use the mouse or remote while watching a video and you can FF, RW etc using the onscreen display, if LIRC is configured correctly then you can use the standard buttons on a remote to achieve such functions

If you are using the UI2 version of the interface then I would recommend switching to UI1 via the webamdnin function as it is much more user friendly when first starting out

NOS

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