David Greaves
From MythTV
Hi
I'm one of the team (see Admin Group) who got this site up and on it's feet :)
(If you don't like the design then someone else did it - if you do then "ta")
My wife made me do it. So blame her (I do - frequently ;) )
"Build me a PVR" she said
"a what" I said
"A TIVO" she said, "I've seen this Hauppauge card..."
So we used the crap windows software for about an hour and then I went looking for the right way to do it... Thank goodness Myth supports the 350...
Anyway, I hijacked her PC - good trick 'cos then she let me buy another so she could have hers back.
So I bought one of the Antec Cases (the big Overture)
Then when she'd recorded loads of shows I pointed out:"If you like dear, I could build you one for the bedroom too. They make a cute small version of the sexy black one we've got in the lounge."
So we got a Minuet too ;)
Have a look at /Myth Boxes for more detail
Contact me : myth at dgreaves.com
More than happy to chat...
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Some Background
I started out as a sysadmin on a SCO/Sun/SGI network, got into hacking at C and emacs and generally did techy stuff. I moved on to bigger things and ended up at SGI (UK) looking after their systems. Then they merged with Cray and generally lost the plot ;) (I still have the T-shirts though!) Since then I've started up a web company (who hasn't?) done consultancy things and wound up doing big architecturey things for BT. I don't get my hands dirty at work (much) so I mess about at home (Shopper for the Zaurus is mine).
Myth Plans
Not many - it's working well. We may plug in an extra digital freeview card to solve the very occasional conflicts.
Myth Boxes
We started with bao being an 'all in one' box but that's not enough for some people - oh, no. Denise wanted more....
So we bought 6x250Gb sata disks and a Promise sata controller.
But they won't fit (we knew that)
So we got a cheap full tower case, painted it copper and plan to move a spare Athlon 1200 into it. Then we'll moved bao's info over and had it write via NFS. It's cool to have a terabyte of storage. It's even cooler to be using it!
Then we moved the 350 to a non-VIA system (VERY GOOD IDEA!!!) - a cheap �99 Dell (very nice and quiet actually)
Then I made the little minuet in the bedroom boot diskless. Just a motherboard, Athlon and memory - very nice.
The Antec Overture encased bao still lives in the lounge but it's using its disk to boot still...
So we have four machines now:
teak is the backend PVR350 based one. It runs the database and lircd with a homemade transmitter to control the sky box.
It's a 'special offer ' �99 Dell and lives in a rack in the study with the sky box on top. (Boy was the Sky man confused when I asked him to install the box in a study with no TV :) )
cu is the file server. An Athlon 1200 with 6x250Gb SATA drives. It runs XFS over LVM over Raid5 - see: LVM on RAID
bao is the lounge box that drives the projector. It lives in an Antec Overture case - really nice but not as silent as I'd hoped (although the CPU fan is a big part of that)
It has:
- an Athlon 1800
- 768b of memory (waste!)
- An ASUS VIA KT600 A L (has sata, via sound, ethernet)
- a 160Gb SATA disk
- onboard optical S/PDIF
It runs:
- Debian
- MythTV 0.18.1
- kernel 2.6.12
- lirc (homebrew receiver)
ebony is the little frontend only one.
It lives in an Antec Minuet case - really nice and I recommend it
It has:
- an Athlon 2600
- 512Mb of memory
- an AOpen MK79G-1394 (perfect with s-video output - so of course they're not made anymore)
- no disk - so it's Disk Less
It runs:
- Debian diskless
- kernel 2.6.12
- lirc (homebrew receiver only)
I must link to http://www.daniel.nofftz.net/linux/Athlon-Powersaving-HOWTO.html
Messages
- Any chance you can upgrade to Moin Moin 1.2.4 (a simple incremental upgrade) and enable the anti-spam features. The current set of defacements is getting tiresome.
- Alternatively mod the ACLs to require login before editing - -- Nigel Metheringham (2005-09-29T08:20:08Z)
