User:Vitaminjoe

About Me

My name is Joe Ripley, and I live in Canada.

I first started using MythTV back in July of 2006 just before the official release of 0.20.

To me, Myth is the ultimate in PVR technology. It's handled everything that I've needed for television, and has completely changed the way I use my TV. I extend my deepest thanks and congratulations to all of the people who have contributed to make it so awesome. Great work to all the core developers and the great user community that keeps fresh ideas coming.

I subscribe to the mythtv-users, mythtv-dev and mythtv-commits mailing lists. Any postings on these lists or on the MythTV Trac server is done as vitaminjoe. If you need to reach me concerning Myth, contact me there.

My MythTV Setup

I currently (2008-02-06) run one of the later SVN releases (r15797):

MythTV Revision  : 15797M
MythTV Branch    : trunk
Library API      : 0.21.20080202-1
Network Protocol : 39
Options compiled in:
linux release using_oss using_backend using_frontend using_ivtv using_lirc 
using_opengl_video using_v4l using_x11 using_xrandr using_xv using_xvmc 
using_xvmc_opengl using_bindings_perl using_opengl using_xvmc_pbuffer

Note: As the 'M' in my revision number indicates, I've got some custom patches going on in there...

Backend/Frontend

I only have one box with Myth on it at the moment. It runs as a combined Backend/Frontend machine. Here are its specs:

Hardware

• Mainboard: ASUS P5LD2
• CPU: Intel Pentium 4 506 (Prescott) 2.66GHz
• Memory: 1.0 GB of Kingston HyperX PC2-6400
• Hard Disks: Total usable space: 1.5 TB
  • Two (2) 250 GB SATA2 Seagate Barracudas
  • Two (2) 500 GB SATA2 Seagate Barracudas
• Video Card: ASUS Extreme N6600 GeForce (128 MB of RAM, PCI-Express)
• TV Tuners: Both tuners are connected to analog cable supplied by Shaw
  • WinTV-PVR-150
  • WinTV-PVR-150 MCE
• Remote Control: Microsoft MCE Remote

Software

• Operating System: openSuSE 10.2
• Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.2-default #1 Sun Jan 14 12:16:19 MST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
• Web Server: Apache/2.2.0
  • Serves up MythWeb
  • PHP 5.1.2
  • mod_perl 2.3
• LIRC 0.8.2 using lirc_mceusb2
• zSNES 1.51 for Super Nintendo emulation (see MythGame)
• MPlayer dev-SVN-r24593-4.1.0
• FFmpeg SVN-r10560

Contributions

Here is some of the stuff I've contributed so far...

Wiki

The MythWeather plugin is nicely documented now, so, just kicking back and relaxing for now.

Patches

I've submitted patches and enhancements to MythTV over the last couple years. Mostly small patches for MythWeather and the MythWeb Weather module. Here's a list of my patches:

• Ticket #5092 (new patch)
  • Typo in WeatherScreen.php causes screen ordering bug
• Ticket #4596 (closed defect: fixed)
  • Don't add unnecessary data items to Active Screens
• Ticket #4594 (closed defect: fixed)
  • Remove 'background' from MythWeather Inactive Screens list
• Ticket #4519 (closed defect: fixed)
  • MythWeather Environment Canada grabber broken
• Ticket #4416 (closed patch: fixed)
  • Prevent 'uninitialized' variable warnings in EnvCan weather grabber
• Ticket #4226 (closed defect: fixed)
  • Add Wind Chill reporting to Environment Canada grabber
• Ticket #4079 (closed patch: fixed)
  • [PATCH] Fix MythWeather Environment Canada parser
• Ticket #3971 (new patch)
  • Install MythWeather PERL modules into PERL @INC path
• Ticket #3948 (closed defect: fixed)
  • Fix to support negative temperature values in Environment Canada parser
• Ticket #3938 (closed patch: fixed)
  • Add ability to have grabber sub-dirs in MythWeather scripts directory
• Ticket #3834 (new enhancement)
  • Patches MythWeb Weather module to use new MythWeather-revamp sources
• Ticket #3811 (closed enhancement: fixed)
  • Add Environment Canada weather grabber for Canadian locations