[Luna] Luna Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7

[Andrew Roazen]

Kyle wrote:
> Would you be available to meet a little earlier to get it all started?
I spoke with someone earlier today who regretfully informed me that 
Shoemaker has no cable, so it's kind of pointless to demonstrate a TV 
tuner-based platform there. Is there another location on the USGS campus 
with cable? Alternately, would it make more sense to do this outside of 
conventional LUNA meeting at another location with both broadband and 
coax (e.g. my office)?
> > I have a USB receiver I picked up at Fry's that I'm willing to part 
> with.
>
> I'd be happy to buy it from you, yes!  I have a universal 
> (programmable) remote.  I actually intend to hide the box as much as 
> possible, so I'll velcro the IR-RX to the entertainment center instead.
It's got a delightfully chunky cover lens so theoretically it should 
catch a signal from anywhere. The mini-mic receiver dangling out of my 
case is quite good at catching signal, so this ought to be at least as 
good. Since we're not using the Hauppauge remote, we need to map your 
remote's button/pulse table and change the Haup remote config file to 
reflect it.
> > Wifi's another story...
>
> Hmm, this is no good.  I assume that you can get around this one way 
> or another.  If nessesary, I suppose I could just buy another wifi 
> bridge, or worst case senario, go without the networking.  I also saw 
> that Myth can be used in conjunction with Mandriva (or at least it has 
> been tried and documented).
Wifi works. It's just a catch-22 situation where the keychain manager 
responsible for remembering the router's passphrase is forgetting its 
own master password (not the router's). Enter that master password and 
it unlocks all the other keys and opens wifi access pretty as you 
please. Bear in mind this annoyance may be a fluke, and in the worst 
case it only rears its head on reboot.

As far as doing without networking is concerned, I don't recommend it. 
Myth, like TiVo, requires a network connection to get its TV listings at 
the very least, and some of its most useful features are tied to 
networking.

Remember, this box has a web interface accessible from any household 
computer. Besides using that to remotely control programming and view 
listings, I realized last night that the thumbnails in "Previously 
Recorded" were hotlinks to the actual MPEGs on the Myth box. Myth docs 
claim you need a Linux mythfrontend client to manage a /streaming 
/server-client relationship between boxes... however, I have a feeling 
that replacing the web interface's file hotlink with an exec 
<http://us2.php.net/function.exec> to VLC's CLI for streaming 
<http://www.videolan.org/doc/streaming-howto/en/ch03.html> (and an embed 
for the moz-VLC plugin 
<http://www.videolan.org/doc/vlc-user-guide/en/ch07.html> on the client 
side) would make this a more platform neutral solution.
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