- Reinstall ubuntu 10.04
- Run update manager
- Use synaptic to install chrom browser, mythtv front end
- Install xbmc per http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Installing_XBMC_for_Linux
- Configure chrom browser
- Enable all installed plugins in chrome
- Upgrade adobe flash player so can access youtube. Notwithstanding adobe docs you must install as it is NOT part of chromium on linux.
- No audio. Set preferences->sound->output to internal audio analog stereo.
- Verified that can watch youtube and have audio.
- chmod /usr/share/icons so I can easily write custom icons there
- Set custom icon for mythtv and xbmc so they are more visible
- Configure mythtv
- Set password
- For some reason can not watch live tv. The DB also appears to be corrupt.
- Not sure what was going on but a reboot seemed to help. There were many 0 length recordings. I've deleted them. I'm somewhat suspicious that there was a power issue and the machine went down leaving a lock on a file outstanding. It bears watching.
- Along the way I foolishly enabled OpenGL on Amazon. This breaks the UI so it's not possible to unset it. After MUCH work discovered that the fix is to "mythfrontend -O ThemePainter=qt" and reset it to "Qt".
- Configure xbmc
- Configured weather for Sudbury, Charlotte, and Seoul
- Configured picutres
- Installed and configured Picasa
- Installed and configured Facebook
- added pictures_nas0000
- Configured music to music_nas0000
- Configured videos
- Added videos_nas0000 & recordedtv_nas0000
- Installed and configured mythbox addon in videos
- Added a source for mythtv per http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=MythTV
- Set system->preferences->visual effects to extra to jazz up the interface a bit
- Enabled remote desktop
- Set screensaver preferences to AntSpotlight, 2hrs, unselect activate and lock. This will hopefully stop the screensaver and lock when watching tv with no interaction. Set power management preferences to never/never with spin down enabled as default.
- Installed and configured hulu desktop. Not sure I really like the way it works but we'll see.
- Setup desktop applications for
- XBMC & MythTV
- Pandora & Art Bell
- Hulu desktop & hulu
- Netflix (but can not watch on demand)
- Weather - Intellicast, NOAA, Weather Underground
- News - PBS Newshour, CNN, ABC, You Tube
- Networks - USA, Syfy, ABC, NBC, TNT, WB
- Went to medibuntu (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu) to get some help with playing dvds.
sudo wget --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/$(lsb_release -cs).list && sudo apt-get --quiet update && sudo apt-get --yes --quiet --allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get --quiet update
sudo apt-get --yes install app-install-data-medibuntu apport-hooks-medibuntu
sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2
- Upgraded mplayer components
- Installed vlc. Mplayer will not play DVDs. VLC will.
- Installed acidrip, dvd::rip, and vobcopy to support dvd rip
- Had some issues ripping DVDs I'd previously ripped. These were resolved by installing medibuntu and libdvdcss2 above.
- Recopied DVDs that were lost
Things are now back, more or less, to where they were before. I'll still need to make show links but otherwise things are well.
- Upgrade roku to use http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ROKU_HD_Frontend
- Build new system
- Finish the tivo slide support
- Setup mythnettv properly
- Buy and install blu ray drive in Ohio TV system.
- Finish freenas install
- Improve antenna. Bow tie is better but could use better still. Also consider array of fractal and large fractal.
- Remove passwords that popup
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