[mythtv-users] MythTV Sirius Satellite Radio Integration

Josh TwoOneSix at thatclothingco.com
Sun Apr 8 07:25:24 UTC 2007


David Kramer wrote:
> Josh wrote:
>   
>> Well, I have finally sat down and integrated Sirius Satellite Radio with 
>> both of my MythTV frontends. It was so easy to get setup I figured I'd 
>> create a Wiki article to document how I did it. I'm actually pretty 
>> happy with the results and I hope people find it useful.
>>     
>
> Excellent directions.  I never heard of sipie before, and am very
> excited about being able to stream Howard and Boombox under Linix.  I
> had it working in just a few minutes.  Though no GUI comes up.  Is there
> a way to tell what the missing component is if you just see the song
> list come up on the command line?
>
>   
>> Take note that this is a "hack" (as I point out a few times in the Wiki) 
>> and NOT a real plug-in so it doesn't do a lot of the things I originally 
>> wanted it to do... I started to develop a plug-in and then they 
>> announced the Sirius-XM merger. Then on top of that, I stumbled upon a 
>> python script called sipie (which is what ended up being the core of the 
>> Wiki article) and decided that I didn't need to invest a lot of time 
>> into a plug-in that could end up being defunct in a few months. At any 
>> rate, check it out and let me know what you think and please feel free 
>> to correct the Wiki or add any useful information you discover.
>>     
>
> Mel Karmazin has already stated that even after the merger, all hardware
> from both manufacturers will continue to run.  I see no reason why the
> streams would be any different, if that's the case.
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Do you have the dbus-x11 package installed? When I got a name at the 
command line but not in the GUI that was my issue.

-- 
Josh





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