If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I have written a number of posts here in the past about AppleTV. Lately the procedure for getting a MythTV frontend running on AppleTV has become much more streamlined, so I just thought I would summarize…
There is a new […]
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Tired of looking at that cheap remote that came with your Hauppauge card?
Then maybe you should consider using the Sony PS3 remote with MythTV. There is a new page on the MythTV wiki describing how to set it up.
The Sony PS3 remote uses Bluetooth instead of the more usual Ir, so you need a bluetooth […]
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I am a big fan of the SilverStone cases, they are of great quality, they look great and there is a big variety to chose from. One of them is the Lascala LC14. It is a case with multimedia buttons on the front and you can get it with or without built in VFD.
On the […]
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Waking up MythTV or any machine is possible using wake-on-lan, but this usually only works on your home network and not over a WAN, say from your workplace or from a friends house.
But the ability to wake up your MythTV remotely does make a lot of sense. Combined with MythWeb, you will then be able […]
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There is a new page on the mythtv.org wiki describing what you can do to rebuild the seektable of a recording.
When do you need this? Well the symptoms of a corrupt seektable are:
Being unable to skip forward and backward correctly, and
Recordings reporting the incorrect length.
So if this happens to you, you can read […]
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If your backend crashes from time to time, then you should definately take a look at a new page on the mythtv.org wiki.
It is a description of several scripts used with pcsk to respawn your backend if it dies unexpectedly.
Personally, my mythbackend is very stable, so I don’t need this. But I do know how […]
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As mentioned last week there was a video posted on YouTube showing an integration between MythTV and X10. This was used for dimming the lights when a movie was started.
Now there is a complete howto on instructables.com. It will tell you how to get a new menu on your MythTV frontend. From that menu you […]
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I ran across this thread on mythtv-users mailing list the other day. It discusses various ways to avoid SSH attacks. If you have this blocked by your firewall, then it is not for you, but many people like to have a way to remotely access their server.
The thread references this page which has a very […]
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If you are running KnoppMyth and you are running out of guide data because of the shutdown of Zap2it Labs, then take a look at this howto upgrade KnoppMyth to use guide data from Schedules Direct.
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