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Revision as of 19:49, 3 March 2009

My background:

System Administrator - Redhat Linux / Windows for the last 3 years and desktop/helpdesk support for 4 years.


My Current project:

Last night, July 6, 2008, I just order parts for my second Mythtv box. Technically its the first one, because the other one I made was more just to try it out but not really use. I decided to go with www.newegg.com for this order, I normally go with www.tigerdirect.com but I found most of the parts I needed on newegg so I just ordered them all at the same time from the same place.

Parts list

  • COOLER MASTER Real Power Pro 550 RS-550-ACAA-A1 550W ATX12V / EPS12V Power Supply
  • OCZ Platinum Revision 2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
  • ASUS P5N-D LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 750i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard
  • MSI N8400GS-TD512 GeForce 8400 GS 512MB 64-bit GDDR2 PCI Express 2.0 x16 SLI
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250310AS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s x 3 for RAID-5
  • DVDROM 6x EIDE and other fans if needed from my old AMD64 desktop
  • Mythbuntu -- x64 8.04 or 8.10 when it comes out

and away we go....

I'm about to move at the end of the summer closer to work. My plan is to build it and have my best friend's mom and dad use it for a month or two. I've used it before but I want to see what will happen when I put it in front of non-tech people. My friend's dad likes the sound of it and might want me to build him one too if things go well.

I'll be looking forward to recording HD OTA and Clear QAM/Digtal cable...

  • July 6, 2008 - parts ordered - ~$946 ( includes taxes + UPS 3-day shipping )
  • July 8, 2008 - all but the hard drives and case showed up
  • July 11, 2008 - Turns out everything showed up on the 8th - hard drives and case were just miss placed
  • July 12, 2008 - after 2 tries all the hardware is working correctly
    • started building at 11am
    • the computer kept shutting off after a few seconds
    • I disconnected everything and found the CPU needed to be re-seated.
    • 5pm - Installing Mythbuntu 8.04 x64
    • Could not get RAID driver working right
    • Linksys WUSB11 V2.6 802.11b Adapter - not working
    • Dlink DWL-120 802.11b Adapter - not working
    • DVD Playback
      • looks great - Latter 49 and The Fifth Element Super Bit
    • IR remote not setup yet
    • Live TV / TV recording not tested yet
  • July 13, 2008 - yea! HD TV
    • DVD Playback
      • Catwoman goes black and back to the Mythtv menu
    • Live TV / TV recording - works
  • July 14 - now setup with Schedules Direct for a 1 Year Schedules Direct's website

More to come...

Comcast in Maryland

I had the best luck scanning with "us-Cable-HRC QAM256"

  • from the command line I found 218 digital channels most are encrypted.
  • From with in Mythtv setup
  • had to rescan after I moved
    • "US-Cable-STD QAM256" - all clearQAM channels I have access to I think
    • "US-Cable-HRC QAM256" - no channels
    • "US-Cable-IRC QAM256" - missing clearQAM channels ( MHZ ones )
      • the digital music channels show up as 115#.... but they are not even useable
    • this weekend comcast changed the must carry channels and I had to remove and re-add them.

SSH



jaakan@jms1000:~$ ssh 192.168.1.101
jaakan@192.168.1.101's password: 
Linux MYTHTV64 2.6.24-19-generic #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 21:01:46 UTC 2008 x86_64

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.

To access official Ubuntu documentation, please visit:
http://help.ubuntu.com/

MythTV status for localhost
===========================
Status..........: Sun Jul 20 2008, 10:30 PM
Total Disk Space: Total space is 230,741 MB, with 37,435 MB used (16.2%)
Guide Data......: No guide data!

Encoders:
MYTHTV64 (1) - Recording
MYTHTV64 (2) - Idle

Recording Now:
CSI: NY (WJZ-DT) Ends: 23:00:00

Scheduled Recordings:
2008-07-21 00:05:00 - Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (WBALDT)
2008-07-21 09:00:00 - Rachael Ray (WMAR-HD)
2008-07-21 15:05:00 - Are You Being Served? (MPT-HD)
2008-07-21 20:30:00 - How I Met Your Mother (WJZ-DT)
2008-07-21 21:00:00 - Two and a Half Men (WJZ-DT)
2008-07-21 21:31:00 - The New Adventures of Old Christine (WJZ-DT)
2008-07-21 22:00:00 - CSI: Miami (WJZ-DT)

Schedule Conflicts:
Unable to access MythTV Perl API.  Try with --verbose to find out why.

Last login: Sun Jul 20 18:58:31 2008 from 192.168.1.102
jaakan@MYTHTV64:~$ exit


issues

  • http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=776014
    • "Error Could not create a symlink to /var/lib/mythtv/videos, the local MythVideo directory for this hostname (pvrbox). Please create a symlink to your MythVideo directory at data/video in order to use the video portions of MythWeb."
      • ssh to the mythbox or open a term on it
      • cd /var/www/mythweb/data/
      • sudo rm ./video
      • sudo ln -s /var/lib/mythtv/videos ./video
      • sudo rm ./video_covers
      • sudo ln -s /var/lib/mythtv/videos ./video_covers
  • Hauppauge HVR-1250 setup
    • this will not show up from a non-updated 8.04 install
    • if you install with 8.04 you need to run all the updates before it will find your card out of the box
    • pick DVB v3 - it will say Samsung ...
  • How to fix edited channel listing
    • do the this as root or with sudo
    • #mythfilldatabase --manual --refresh-all


  • Thermaltake Mozart Media Center -- VC4000SNS Silver/ Black Aluminum / Steel ATX Desktop Computer Case
    • the power button just broke. I heard a pop. I was looking at logs from a game that crashed. the vim locked up. I opened htop that locked up. I rebooted and the computer doesn't make it to POST, 5 seconds and it shuts off. I pulled out everything rebuilt it a number of times over 24hours. I gave up and almost when to a computer shop to hunt for parts. I took a guess, grabbed my other desktop and swapped the wire that goes to buttons and it worked.

missing and added channels by comcast

  • it's about that time comcast start changing channels around
    • added
      • MASN HD
      • VS / GOLF ( it's back )
      • Oxygen
      • Bravo
    • missing
      • FOOD Net HD
      • CNN HD
      • CineMAX HD West ( more like 576p )

Gaming

  • I only really play a few games but here they are
  • and yes I play them while shows are going recorded
  • if you install games via the repository they will should up in MythTV's menus under games after a scan for new games is run.