Well, it turns out that I’m a moron. Apparently everything was pretty much working for me already. I had all of the pieces, I just didn’t put them together correctly. After days of work I finally have LIRC recognizing my remote inputs properly. Basically what happened is that I configured the startup script for LIRC to load the correct driver […]
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With the holiday shopping season in full effect, the Internet is awash in gift guides. These gift guides are ostensibly prepared to help us find the right gifts for our friends and family, but let’s face it, we really use them to get a final rundown of the year’s best tech gadgets and make our own Santa wish lists. At least we […]
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So there you were Thanksgiving evening, the turkey carcass forgotten at the table, the football games done, and a house full of family overstaying their welcome, and you needed a movie to pacify the increasingly cranky kids that everyone was trying to ignore. If you pulled up YouTube in search of a movie rental then you had the opportunity to […]
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Today Verizon has announced plans to release their Fios TV services to the Xbox 360 platform. Users will have to subscribe to the Fios Internet and TV services in order to gain access to the service on your xbox. Another interesting fact is Verizon will sell a triple play package that includes, TV, Phone and Internet services for $89.00. As part of […]
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The idea of being able to take your content wherever you go is one that has taken off since the launch of Slingbox–which supports connecting your set top box to their specific device, and then being able to control and stream that signal to your computer (or phone or Boxee Box) from anywhere in the world. Monsoon Multimedia is aiming […]
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As previously noted, I’m working on upgrading the server in my house, which currently runs Windows Home Server (v1). While I don’t plan to use Windows Home Server 2011 for anything but backups, this guide should assist others who are thinking about how to upgrade WHS to WHS 2011, particularly migrating all your data out of the drive pool. This […]
Read moreI guess I got a little distracted today. In doing some of my research for using LIRC with my iMon IR receiver that is part of the Antec Fusion 430 Black case, I ran across a couple of web pages that discussed getting the LCD screen working with LCDProc. So that’s what I did today. Now when I go through […]
Read moreI’ve done a bit more research into this remote control thing and found a couple of commands to use for debugging. First is ir-keyboard. If I run ir-keyboard with no options it will show me what device is found, what protocols it is capable of and which one(s) it is using. In my case the output looks like: Found /sys/class/rc/rc0/ […]
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So my primary reason for purchasing the Hauppauge Colossus was to digitize a small VCR library. Some purchased movie titles others non-professional and non-purchasable. It seems my wife’s Dad bought almost every Disney movie on VCR during the limited release cycle. Since my 4yr old isn’t going to complain about simulated surround vs TrueHD, I figured capturing the upscaled image after […]
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Integrated graphics performance has reached a point that I rarely find myself wishing for a video card in my HTPC, but if I were to decide that was what I needed , I would be looking for two things: a passively cooled card to eliminate fan noise and an Nvidia GPU so that I could try out the hardware accelerated […]
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