[mythtv-users] MythTV Light installation

[Peter Bennett]

On 10/04/2018 05:25 AM, Jim Abernathy wrote:
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> On 10/03/2018 02:27 PM, Peter Bennett wrote:
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>> On 10/03/2018 01:49 PM, Jay Harbeston (ISeePeople) wrote:
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>>>> On Oct 3, 2018, at 10:45 AM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>>>> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 10:29 AM Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com 
>>>> <mailto:mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>> wrote:
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>>>>     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
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>>>> 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).
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>>>> 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.
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>>>> 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.
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>>> 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:
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>>> The ! At the beginning of the line is a comment for xmodmap
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>>> ! 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
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>>> Regards,
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>> You can also use your TV remote if your TV supports CEC The raspberry 
>> pi has CEC support built in.
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>> Make sure you go follow the recommendations in 
>> https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi#System_Performance for the 
>> best performance.
>>
>> Peter
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> 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.
> the index shows:
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> [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 	-
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> What is the current known working version for Mythfrontend??
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> Jim A
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If you click on the raspbian-2017-12-01/ link you will the the files in 
there are called 2017-11-29-raspbian-stretch.
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