[mythtv-users] Hardware databases

[Gareth Glaccum]

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From: Brian Phillips <brian.phillips at gmx.net>
Sent: Tuesday, 27 January, 2009 4:24:36 PM

I know there's a stigma around programs contacting their producers, but if
this were done in an open fashion, and no "lucrative" data were shared, I
think it would help out greatly in these hardware database efforts that
always seem doomed from the beginning.  I know I would opt-in to something
like this.  It would also be valuable as a documented statistic of users'
hardware.  This could be persuasive to hardware manufacturers if it can be
shown that a large portion of their customer base is associating with
MythTV.

Just my two cents...

Brian
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I would have no problem running a script sent to the mythtv-users list. Trouble with your suggestion, (personally I wouldn't care), is that it should really set a prompt on one of the front-ends that goes off after 100 hours (at least to ask, sometimes [I have done it] a front end just isn't capable, and should be marked as poor hardware):
'Remember a couple of days ago you said you wouldn't mind sending us your hardware information? If you are still happy to perform this, please mark out of 10 the performance of your hardware, otherwise press cancel'

I think that a script to the mailing list will be the quickest implementation, will be open source (probably bash/perl or the like, so you can actually see what it grabs), and most likely to be run by people who have either got a well working system, or have now got a working system after having their problems solved by the list, and will thus have less false-positives. 

If it is a new feature to be put into myth, it would have to be 0.22 at least, which means that the hardware info is not going to be quickly gained.
Gareth
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