[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation

Jim Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:47:33 UTC 2018



On 10/04/2018 05:45 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:
> On 4/10/18 7:25 pm, Jim Abernathy wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 10/03/2018 02:27 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/03/2018 01:49 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:45 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     3) Buy one of those mini keyboard remotes that can be used 
>>>>> with Android.  You'd have a full keyboard.  Most of them work with 
>>>>> a radio signal and you don't have to use line of sight like with 
>>>>> an IR remote.  Some tilt (they have some kind of gyroscope) and 
>>>>> they have really awkward mouse control.  Some of them have a 
>>>>> touchpad, like a laptop, and you can move the pointer with that.  
>>>>> They're cheap, probably less than $25
>>>>>
>>>>> I bought this one: http://a.co/d/2lJGK6R and it's not available 
>>>>> but there are several others (This one is Amazon's Choice: 
>>>>> http://a.co/d/4SHvnFH and as you can see, it's less than $15).
>>>>>
>>>>> If you go this route, I'd look around for the one you want as 
>>>>> you're the one who is going to have to use it.  Some have touch 
>>>>> pads and some don't.  You can find these remotes all over the 
>>>>> internet.
>>>>>
>>>>> It's just $15 bucks and you can use it in just about any USB 
>>>>> device.  It emulates a keyboard.  You can program a few IR 
>>>>> commands too like your TV Power.  Mine learns commands from 
>>>>> another remote control but only for a few buttons. It works pretty 
>>>>> much out of the box; there is almost no configuration needed.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I too have one of the remotes you link to above with the ‘gyro 
>>>> mouse’ I rarely use that function with mythtv as all the other 
>>>> buttons on the arrow/media control side function fine for most 
>>>> mythtv functionality.  I did do an xmodmap to map some of the media 
>>>> control side buttons to mythtv functions. Here is the contents of 
>>>> my xmodmap that I used:
>>>>
>>>> The ! At the beginning of the line is a comment for xmodmap
>>>>
>>>> ! keycode 426 = P   # this is magnify +
>>>> ! keycode 427 = P   # this is magnify -
>>>> ! keycode 171 = <   # this is the >>| button
>>>> ! keycode 173 = <   # this is the |<< button
>>>> ! keycode 216 = >   # this is the >> button
>>>> ! keycode 176 = <   # this is the << button
>>>> ! keycode 225 = R   # this is the search button
>>>> keycode 166 = Escape
>>>> keycode 135 = M
>>>> keycode 179 = S
>>>> keycode 158 = E
>>>> keycode 163 = I
>>>> keycode 172 = P
>>>> keycode 216 = greater
>>>> keycode 176 = less
>>>> keycode 225 = R
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You can also use your TV remote if your TV supports CEC The 
>>> raspberry pi has CEC support built in.
>>>
>>> Make sure you go follow the recommendations in 
>>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance for the 
>>> best performance.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>
>> On the Wiki it says to use the 2017-11-29 version of Raspbian 
>> Stretch. But the link has no such version that I can find.
>
> It is inside raspbian-2017-12-01/
>
>> the index shows:
>> -
>>
>>
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2016-11-29/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2016-11-29/> 
>> 2016-11-29 16:32     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-01-10/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-01-10/> 
>> 2017-01-10 18:12     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-02-27/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-02-27/> 
>> 2017-02-27 15:24     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-03-03/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-03-03/> 
>> 2017-03-03 17:48     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-04-10/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-04-10/> 
>> 2017-04-10 18:51     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-06-23/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-06-23/> 
>> 2017-06-23 07:14     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-07-05/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-07-05/> 
>> 2017-07-05 17:43     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-08-17/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-08-17/> 
>> 2017-08-17 09:17     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-09-08/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-09-08/> 
>> 2017-09-08 12:13     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2017-12-01/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2017-12-01/> 
>> 2017-12-01 10:22     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2018-03-14/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-03-14/> 
>> 2018-03-16 18:07     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2018-04-19/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-04-19/> 
>> 2018-04-19 15:40     -
>> [DIR]     raspbian-2018-06-29/ 
>> <http://downloads.raspberrypi.org/raspbian/images/raspbian-2018-06-29/> 
>> 2018-06-29 03:28     -
>>
>>
>>
>> What is the current known working version for Mythfrontend??
>>
>> Jim A
>

Thanks, I just found it inside 2017-12-01 when your email came in. 
Thanks again.

Jim A




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