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MythTV 0.21 has been released. MythTVNews.com “predicted” a release in february, so it was only off by one week as MythTV 0.21 was released on […]

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The code supporting this was just checked in to svn, so if you are running the svn version you will be getting this:

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It has been a long wait… MythTV 0.20 was released on September 11, 2006. In 2007, 0.20.1 and 0.20.2 were released. And now it sounds like MythTV 0.21 will be released in February 2008.
So what do we have to look forward to?  This is a list of the major features slated for 0.21:

Added Watch […]

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Mythbuntu 7.10 Beta is based on Ubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon” 7.10. It contains MythTV 0.20.2.
Important new features:

xfce as window manager instead of openbox
New network manager which will ease the configuration of WiFi
Extra configuration options in the Control Center
If you already have Ubuntu 7.10, you can easily “upgrade” to Mythbuntu

MythWeather is not working and probably will not […]

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KnoppMyth R5F27 includes MythTV 0.20.2 with support for Schedules Direct guide data.
It now includes kernel 2.6.18.8 and software updates for everything ranging from graphics drivers and libraries to Media players and themes.
New stuff includes Sirius and XM support, project grayhem theme, Bluetooth support and lots of small scripts.
Last but not least MythWeather is fixed […]

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This version primarily adds support for guide data from Schedules Direct, but there are other changes as well:

 Reduced memory consumption
Faster startup of frontend
UPnP fixes

MythWeather is still not fixed, so it is disabled.
Here is the complete 0.20.2 release note.

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For those who are missing the MythWeather module, which is currently broken, it might be interesting to take a look at the discussion the developers are having at the moment.
For one thing, mythweather-revamp is now just MythWeather. Also, it will be based on scripts, which can easily be fixed, extended, added… So the challenge is […]

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The recently released KnoppMyth R5F1 does in fact contain the fixed MythWeather plugin, also known as MythWeather-revamp. It is stated in the changelog:
“Fixed MythWeather.”
And elaborated a little bit in this forum post:
“R5F1 gets all the proper info and displays it properly in Myth, but only displays the radar picture in Mythweb“
So actually it does not […]

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MythWeather broke about two weeks ago, when the msnbc website structure was changed. Since then a lot of work has been put into an update of the plugin using weather.com. It has a public API which means that a breakdown like this should not happen in the future.
The current status and a guide of how […]

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