Weekend Update

Status

Okay, it again has been a while. The Myth is functional, and recording shows happily. We have now recorded 12 stages of "Le Tour de France", as well as a bunch of HGTV stuff. I have a few 'bugs' to work out still, but I do have the channel changing working, recording, LIRC (mostly)... I also have some stuff on my list that I just haven't spent the time to get done.

Bug List

General Fedora bugs

• Upon reboot, need to run ivtv-tune -c 3 to reset tuner to channel 3


• Upon reboot, have to manually reconnect to the wireless network, it will not autoconnect despite being told (in an angry voice) to do so.

Myth bugs Some of these seem not to be Myth bugs at a first glance...

• After a period of time (about 20 minutes) power save kicks in and shuts off the monitor... this ONLY happens from within Myth, not when using XINE, VLC, or just in the OS in general. Movement of the mouse brings it back to life.


• Sometimes, commercial flagging doesn't occur... but only sometimes


• Volume control isn't functioning... you see the on screen message that mute is on/off, or that volume is going up/down, but it doesn't. Volume can be controlled from the OS though.

Unfinished Business

Okay, I still have some stuff that I haven't finished, but with watching the tour, having our place up for sale, and riding my bike, I've been too busy... I shall overcome, however, eventually.

• Finish mapping remote buttons


• Get VFD and volume knob working


• Configure network for external access (includes setting up Open LDAP, finish configuring my firewall server, DHCP server and DNS server)

It is getting pretty close. It is working well enough for my Tour needs...

We have a signal

Ok, it has been a while, but I have been travelling with work, and putting in some longer days. Also, we went away for a cycling vacation in MA, so that took up some potential "Myth" time.

So, I had a special guest host in yesterday to provide some assistance with the remaining work. He is my friendly, neighborhood "Myth Evangelist". Here is the "punch list" of tasks we had to work on:

1. get a capture to work without myth, just using the hardware
   
2. get a capture to work in myth
   
3. make sure live tv works (proves playback and capture at once)
   
4. configure IR to work with the easiest remote (PVR 150)
   
5. configure IR to work with intended remote (Silverstone provided remote)
   
6. sign up for TV listings, and populate the database
   
7. schedule a recording, and start playback after it begins
   
8. get channel changing to work
   
9. make sure mythtvweb is working from within firewall
   
10. get VFD working
    
11. get volume knob on case working
    

So, we got 1 - 7 working (mostly/kinda). Never got the PVR150 remote to work,but got the Silverstone one to work. There was also a strange issue that appeared with the Myth display, where it seemed to revert to the old 8 color VGA scheme... turned out to be an NVidia driver issue, that once resolved, worked fine. Item 7 was only partly successful as well, when the recording started, it started with a name of "", so it was unable to find it, or know when to stop recording... we had to restart the backend at this point. Some of this may have to do with the configuration of the signa... we are using an RCA D11 receiver for DirecTV, and I don't have the proper cable to perform the channel changing... this should be remedied by tomorrow.

So, we have a lot of the tasks complete, and most started. I need to still do the following now:

• Finish the IR configuration - some of the buttons aren't mapped, so I just need to map those across to Myth.
  
• I have the instructions for the VFD and volume knob tasks, will save those for last, nice to have features
  
• Getting cable tomorrow for channel changing... hope this also resolves the capture of the name of the content for recording. May have to tweak this a bit though.
  
• setup the external MythTV web for programming...
  

My goal is to have it all complete by July 7 in time for the Tour de France... here's hoping.

Again, a special thanks to the friendly, neighborhood Myth Evangelist.

P.S. No pictures today, but, I hope to get some up on Wednesday of it in action...