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Ive just been looking on ebay actually.  Very suprised just how cheap the sensor bars are, so im just gonna grab one of those and see how i get on.

Hmm, in that case maybe not.  Andrew (totallymaxed) asked for access to my core tonight and i assumed (doh!) that remote assistance was the way forward. 

Ok, im gonna have to grab an ir source then. It would appear that my wiimote isnt using the accelerometers at all though, no matter how hard i move the remote the cursor stays in one position until i point the remote out of the window (at the sun) and then tracking isnt too bad). 

 Does anyone have any experience of using only a single ir source?  I was thinking of rigging a single IR led powered by usb and mounting it centrally under my tv.

SOLVED::  As per the post below Remote assistance is not yet working.

I am having problems enabling remote assistance under 0810 alpha.  I have tried via webadmin and advanced-Remote access.  Web admin goes fairly unresponsive when i select enable remote assistance (with or without port 22 ticked).  

If i go in via ui2 then clicking enable remote assistance then the ui changes to "One moment" but never enables remote assistance.  

I have made sure i have port forwarding on my router, and have even tried the above with the firewall on both mce and my router switched off with no changes.  Am i missing something?

EDIT:  Just to confirm i have used my laptop to nmap port 22 and it is defiantly open.

I am unable to write to my MCE hyrbid shares when i mount them from any ubuntu machine in my house and am not sure why. 

This is the line from my /etc/fstab


# mce Home directory nfs mount
192.168.80.1:/home /media/mcehome nfs rw,hard,intr 0 0


The drive mounts fine and i can explore around, but i am unable to create any folders (and hence add any files i want to my media center).  I went the route of nfs after having problems with samba not mounting the shares from my mce machine (and due to the speed increase under linux of using nfs).

Any ideas?

SOLVED::: MUCH MUCH better when using an IR source.  IR bars are available lots of places for under $/£10 so worth the purchase.


I have just gone through the wiki entry on adding a wiimote to my Linuxmce system and am fairly happy with the result.I do have a question on the following entry to the daemon though;

#mouse acceleration, adjust to your liking
                       #see also: "man xset" and/or "xset -h"
#                       xset m 1/2 3


Can someone give me an idea what these figures actually mean for xset m and what is meant by see also manxset or xset -h?

I have been looking around on the internet and cannot really find much of a clue.  From the way i have read the above the vaule is hashed out anyway?

The reason i ask is my wiimote seems to be giving slightly erratic movement, and whilst im not using an IR source i was expecting it to be less erratic than it is now.

(As an aside, i have been trying to get back in to edit the files i created from the wiki, but I am not able to, even with sudo kate for example.  I have tried sudo /etc/init.d/wminputd stop but that comes back as failed as well.  How do i get back into the files i created to edit them?)

Did you manage to package this up at all last night andrew?  I have a full day available to spend on my MCE setup today and it would be nice to get DVB-T working and Myth.

Cheers

Ok, must have missed the official feed when i was looking for it. 

In that case i can probably stop updating the feed i started and just watch the official one (if its updated regularly)

Cheers purps! 

Added a quick entry into the wiki;

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Upnpin0810

Hopefully it is useful to people.

Sorry for the slightly random question but i was wondering if someone here could give me a list of the last few scripts loaded by Linux MCE during the startup process. 

My reason for asking is 2 fold, firstly I need to add a line to start mediatomb as per this thread;

http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=8477.0

I also need to add a line to enable my wifi WPA connection, currently i have to drop to KDE each time to type one line into terminal to get wifi working and this clearly isnt as elegant as it could be. 

I have tried putting both of these commands into a startup script;

/.kde/Autostart/wifi

but it doesnt seem to work as it only appears to be run when you drop to the KDE desktop and not during normal MCE startup.

Is there a best practise script to edit for user specific startup options?  At somepoint hopefully at least the mediatomb script wont be required as it can be added into the Beta release of 0810.

HAHA!

Very true, i created the account to just try and raise our profile slightly.  Its got a few people following ti at the moment, so is still sort of useful.

I appear to have lost all access to my squeezenetwork account from within Slimserver on LinuxMCE after my last update (to the current alpha).

I have full access via webadmin to all of the slimserver functions you would expect, except my username and password keep coming back as invalid, and they are definatly 100% correct!

I have tried changing my password twice with the slimserver "I forgot my password link" and both times the same is true, no access to squeezenetwork.

I have also confirmed that the squeeze network is up and running at the time by logging on with my Ubuntu laptop.  I feel this might be a bug that has crept in and been missed maybe, as this side of my setup has been been fine since install.

My Linux MCE machine definatly has internet access as i am using it to reset the password and access my hotmail ok.  The fault is still present even if you copy and paste the new password (just to treble ensure its not a typeo!)

Is there anyway forward, or can i get some log files maybe that would be useful for someone to look into the potential bug?

These look fantastic!  Defiantly another good reason to move across to myth!

Sight looks fantastic, well done!  Could you add a link to "Follow us on twitter" somewhere on the front page please? 

The twitter account i have setup for us is linked below;

http://twitter.com/mcelinux