Opensuse 10.2
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openSUSE 10.2
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Introduction
For rich, reliable and secure home computing like MythTV, there's no better choice than openSUSE 10.2. It features an easy-to-install Linux operating system that most of the required MythTV components standard in the box. Moosy blog is a platform for openSUSE and SLED releated post that also has their MythTV corner. We thought to move some of our info to this wiki.
openSUSE 10.2 in combination with PacMan provide you with an easy installation and the latest packages like, myhthtv rpm's, ivtv, lirc, xmltv, php, mysql, mplayer, xine and many more.
Prerequisites
openSUSE 10.2 32 or 64 (Linux kernel 2.6.18.2, using only SMP kernels, glibc 2.5, X.Org 7.2rc2)
Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-500 MCE (PVR500)
YaST Sources, the packages
To add the External YaST Repositories for MythTV, open YaST, go to "Installation Sources" and press Add. There, first select the protocol and, on the next page, enter the server and the directory as listed below.
add pacman as your installation source: [1]
Protocol - HTTP Server name - packman.iu-bremen.de Directories - suse/10.2
opensuse 10.2 installation sources here [2]
IVTV, the analogue TV card
IVTV is a kernel driver for Linux and a driver for X11 for hardware based on Conexant's CX23415/CX23416 codec chip such as the Hauppauge PVR 150/250/350/500 models.
ivtv wiki - [3]
openSUSE 10.2 ships with ivtv version 0.8.0.
lspci can give you more info on your card and tuner:
In this example we use a PVR500MCE that is shown by lspci
Multimedia video controller: Internext Compression Inc iTVC16 (CX23416) MPEG-2 Encoder (rev 01)
Make sure you use the correct firmware, exmplained here http://ivtvdriver.org/index.php/Firmware#Firmware_filenames
Save the firmware in: /lib/firmware
cat /etc/modprobe.d /tv
alias char-major-81 videodev options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1 # YaST configured TV card # Uog3.chCB1CyIbw9:WinTV PVR 150 alias char-major-81-0 ivtv # YaST configured TV card # ZvjX.sZc4ePByvkF:WinTV PVR 150 alias char-major-81-1 ivtv alias char-major-81-2 off alias char-major-81-3 off
dmesg | grep ivtv
ivtv: ==================== START INIT IVTV ==================== ivtv: version 0.8.0 (tagged release) loading ivtv: Linux version: 2.6.18.2-34-default SMP mod_unload gcc-4.1 ivtv: In case of problems please include the debug info between ivtv: the START INIT IVTV and END INIT IVTV lines, along with ivtv: any module options, when mailing the ivtv-users mailinglist. ivtv0: Autodetected Hauppauge WinTV PVR-150 card (cx23416 based) ivtv0: loaded v4l-cx2341x-enc.fw firmware (262144 bytes) ivtv0: This is the first unit of a PVR500 tuner 1-0043: chip found @ 0x86 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tuner 1-0060: chip found @ 0xc0 (ivtv i2c driver #0) tuner 1-0061: chip found @ 0xc2 (ivtv i2c driver #0) cx25840 1-0044: cx25843-23 found @ 0x88 (ivtv i2c driver #0) wm8775 1-001b: chip found @ 0x36 (ivtv i2c driver #0) ivtv0: Encoder revision: 0x02060039 etc..
lirc, the remote control
LIRC is a package that allows you to decode and send infra-red signals of many commonly used remote controls. openSUSE 10.2 ships with lirc 0.8.0.
config file for your remote /etc/lircd.conf You can get a lircd.conf for your remote on the http://lirc.org website or create your own file with irxevent and/or mode2
mapping of keys to myth functions /home/user/.mythtv/lircrc
LCDproc, the lcd display
MythTV (mythlcdserver [4] ) can control an LCD panel through LCDproc API. LCDproc [5] is not part of opensuse 10.2. You need to download the source and compile. Make sure you also compile the server component of LCDproc and read the INSTALL file.
test your lcd device
echo Moosy rocks > /dev/lcd0
./configure --enable-drivers=all make cd shared make cd server make make install
check and configure the LCDd.conf file In the LCDd.conf there is a DriverPath pointing to server/drivers. (make this a complete path)
start the lcd server
LCDd
configure mythfrontend to use the lcd [config] [screen]
MySQL, the database
create THE database
mysql -u root < /usr/share/doc/packages/mythtv/database/mc.sq
fill THE database
with xmltv is country specific. We use http://graphics.tudelft.nl/~paul/grabber/ for the Netherlands.
manage THE database
Use phpMyAdmin
fix THE database
/usr/share/doc/packages/mythtv/contrib/optimize_mythdb.pl
backup & restore THE database
backup
$mysqldump -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg -c > mythtv_backup.sql
To restore: (assuming that you've dropped the database)
$ mysql -u root mysql>create database mythconverg; mysql>exit $ mysql -u mythtv -pmythtv mythconverg < mythtv_backup.sql
cool backup script for multiple days [6]