Author: Lothar

I’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/ […]

Well, I’ve had a bit of time to look into the new Fedora 15 load and it appears that without doing anything with LIRC at all I have basic directional pad controls on my remote working.  Volume also appears to work.  However, when I install LIRC and point it to lircd.conf.mceusb I get nothing when running irw.  If I do […]

Ok, after a good night sleep I have cooled down enough to be productive again.  I decided to reinstall Fedora 15, this time using KDE as the desktop instead of Gnome.  I’m sure that if I had dug into it far enough I could have figured out how to resolve the windowing issues that I was facing.  Maybe there was […]

Ok, it seems that every time I take a step forward I also take one back.  So before jumping into setting up the remote I decided to take a quick spin through the desktop and then MythTV to make sure the basics still work.  Now I’m very glad I did that.  I don’t know exactly what’s going on here because […]

Welcome back to another exciting entry into what should have been a well planned out and straight forward upgrade from MythTV 0.21 to MythTV 0.24.  Here’s a recap: 1) Upgraded the backend 2) “Upgraded” the frontend 3) Got MythTV working on Windows 4) Performed integration testing 5) Failed integration testing – Frontend no workey.  X-Windows doesn’t load, then no remote […]

Tonight, while pondering my IR receiver, I decided to take it easy a bit and play around with MythTv Player on my laptop.  This has led me to another shortfall of my current setup in that I still need to get Mythweb running.  Mythweb is very handy for use with MythTv Player because the player doesn’t have the ability to […]

I’ve been doing a bit of research today and it doesn’t look good.  Getting the remote working a matter of installing LIRC (either with yum install lirc or else building it manually).  In the past, once it’s installed, I’ve had to load the lirc_imon kernel module which is the driver for my Antec Fusion 430 Black IR receiver.  Then I […]

Today I spent a while poking at the frontend again.  If you will remember from yesterday the changeover didn’t go quite as smoothly as I had hoped for.  When I turned on the frontend I was greeted with a black screen.  Eventually I was able to get to a command line but didn’t get any further before going to bed.  After […]

I think I’m ready to do a full system changeover tomorrow night.  That’ll be the moment of truth.  We’ll see how much I’ve missed at that point.  I’m sure there’s something. Why, oh why, did I have to say that?! So, as it turns out, I did miss a couple of things.  Let’s start with my wife’s laptop.  Fail!  As […]

I am happy to say that after a couple of hours of Googling and poking at my MythTV server, I’ve fixed my issues causing my Windows MythTV install to not connect to my backend.  It turns out that it was a firewall issue no the backend after all.  When I configured the backend originally I had opened up the firewall […]