[mythtv-users] Patriot Media Player as UPNP frontend, and on-sale

Dan Rose dan at linuxtrader.com
Fri Aug 20 17:42:41 UTC 2010


On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Tony <cfr131 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks very interesting.  I am looking for another frontend.  How does this
> display recorded shows?  What I want to know is does it just give the
> filename or the recorded show name?
>

The Patriot uses two means, at least,  to pull content from a mythbackend.

    1) Builtin upnp client queries the recording and video list from myth
backend upnp server.    The mythtv builtin upnp server shows the nice-name.
  Show: Episode,  as in "Flashpoint:  Severed Ties"

    2) And the patriot will also auto-login to samba shares for streaming,
or copying to Patriot attached or internal storage.    To get nice nice
names here, you must a) have samba enabled/configured on your mythtv
backend,  (see my excerpt from /etc/samba/smb.conf), and b) from
/usr/share/doc/mythtv-backend/contrib/ you get the script "mythlink.pl"
(make sure you have a current version) which creates the nice-names symbolic
links in show_names.   mythlink.pl makes fresh links for all shows, and can
be ran by hand, by cron, or user-job in mythtv.   I run it as a final step
in a larger user-job, by default it writes to the show_names directory.

/etc/samba/smb.conf

[global]
<deleted text followed by,>
<2 entries to make show_names work right.>
unix extensions = no
wide links = yes

[recordings]
comment = TV Recordings
path = /storage1/show_names
public = yes
writable = no
create mask = 0777
directory mask = 0777
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv

[videos]
comment = Videos
path = /var/lib/mythtv/videos
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0770
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv

[music]
comment = Music
path = /var/lib/mythtv/music
public = yes
writable = yes
create mask = 0660
directory mask = 0770
force user = mythtv
force group = mythtv




>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Dan Rose <dan at linuxtrader.com> wrote:
>
>> Keywords: upnp
>> Keywords: affordable front-end
>>
>> I have one of these as a poor-man's mythtv frontend and I am truly
>> impressed.   They are on-sale new for $55 after rebate, as discussed on
>> Dealnews and points to newegg.com.    ( I paid $65 for mine)
>>
>> I run my Patriot wireless with an 802.11/n usb adapter ($8 that I also
>> picked up from dealnews), but required the right router settings.  I also
>> move my patriot occasionally, and ethernet always works with no special
>> setup.
>>
>> My myth backend is ATSC over-the-air only,  but the patriot player has
>> capabilities well beyond that.
>>
>> More...
>>
>> UPNP streams to Patriot Box Office HD Media Player, better and cheaper
>> than PS3
>>
>> http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1136/1/
>>
>> --
>> Dan Rose
>>
>
Dan Rose
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