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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 […]

When choosing the perfect chassis for a home theater PC (HTPC), something that is more “consumer electronics” (CE) looking is often desired. Missing Remote reader, Kirby Baker, didn’t just buy off the shelf in his quest. He modified a TiVo Series 1 chassis and built an extremely capable HTPC inside. Kirby did an awesome job and it is a lot of fun […]

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 […]

Well, up until this point, everything has progressed exactly as planned.  As with all things that I do though, something must go wrong.  Well, now I have hit my first big speed bump with this build process.  Today I set my backend system to run the 0.24 install that I made a couple of days ago and that is still […]

I’m in the beginning stages of rebuilding my Windows Home Server box.  Feel free to check out my original blog for the current setup.  (Note that the blog hasn’t been entirely reformatted for the new site.)  There, I stated that my intentions were for my first media server to last a minimum of 5 years.  The fact that I’m writing this […]

So far in this process of bringing my MythTV setup up-to-date I have upgraded my primary backend to 0.24 (but put the old hard drive back in so that it is compatible with the rest of the house running 0.21 still) and my primary frontend to 0.24 (but put in the old hard drive so people can still watch TV). […]