[mythtv-users] Special needs dad with MythTV hardware questions

Mark Perkins perkins1724 at hotmail.com
Sun Nov 24 01:04:50 UTC 2013



> Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 18:28:25 -0500
> From: eric at lisaneric.org
> To: mythtv-users at mythtv.org
> Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Special needs dad with MythTV hardware questions
> 
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 6:05 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > +1. I had no real Ubuntu or equivalent experience when I started so my setup time
> > would not be comparable to your setup time, but even with everything setup and
> > running 'smoothly' I do 5-10hrs week on Myth.
> 
> 5-10hrs/wk?  What are you doing that takes that long?  (Not counting
> chatting on this list..)
> 
> Maintaining a MythTV system can take as much time as you want it to
> especially if you get into development, but there seem to be plenty of
> people who manage to get the basic system up and running and stable
> with minimal (but not zero) time investment.  5hrs/wk sounds very much
> on the high side to me.
> 
> Eric
> _______________________________________________

I probably shouldn't pin it all on Myth but as I only use my Mythbuntu system for Myth I kind-of call it all the same. But stuff on my list at the moment:
- sorting out Mythtranscode to get my archives working consistently.
- troubleshooting various things that just pop up like (only in the last week or two)
    - my Doctor Who series recording just stopped recording mid season. No idea why but I assume that the Series ID or some number changed / bad EPG data / something else - still yet to work out what happened.
    - some random recordings don't show any text in Recording screen (like Subtitle, Description, start end times, no text other than Series Name at the top and recording Title in the list). But when I go Edit Metadata all the data is there. If I go to the next recording in the list everything displays correctly.
- improve commflag detection.
- Video playback on my BE/FE combo. Video plays back too fast (say 2x speed or something). I know that I need to get onto the Nvidia drivers but have never been able to get them to work.
- still want to do some more themeing particularly for Mythvideo. The recordings screen has excellent WAF but not Mythvideo yet.
- work out what I need to do to protect against system drive filling up (been a bit of list chatter about this recently). All my recordings are on separate drives but I would like to protect against /var/log/ or /tmp filling up given the apparent disastrous (system destroying) consequences noted.
- maybe setup ability to sleep the standalone FE's to save power / noise / heat.

I guess maybe it's just my lack of experience that means that these things take me a long time. Also I don't necessarily mind the time taken as long as I'm learning something new.

The other 5hrs is probably reading all the list emails to try and pickup on all the latest tips / tricks / enhancements!!

I shouldn't start but setup time for me ran to multiple 100's of hrs. Tuners didn't want to play nice, audio wouldn't output over HDMI, video wouldn't size correctly, incorrect permissions from running mythtv-setup as the wrong user (or something, don't quite recall now), no EPG data, something about putting IP addresses in HOSTS file, it was quite a list at the time. I would have rebuilt my Mythbuntu BE/FE 8-10 times in the first fortnight - ahhhh, fond memories....
 		 	   		  
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