Back to Mythtv

So I gave up on the google voice...What a facade. So now back to mythtv..... Seems oss support was dropped. Glad I found out AFTER i upgraded to 10.10 from 10.04...

So....I wound up exporting my mythtv database,saving my ebdid.bin file,and my custom xorg.conf file and blasted the drive again with a nice neat install of mythbuntu.

How here is the only thing.....I really want to grab some stuff off of on-demand and the only way to do that is using composite video...OK, thats fine. BUT the setup guides for myth are terrible.

So maybe once I get it working I will update the wiki @ www.mythtv.org/wiki/

Google Voice and Asterisk

So I thought I would try the google voice with the Centos/asterisk .iso

Here is what I have done so far.

Download the .iso from here.

(32bit) http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisknow/i386/asterisknow32.iso
(64bit) http://www.asterisk.org/downloads/asterisknow/x86_64/asterisknow64.iso

Dug up an old pent3 with 512 megs of ram and a 40 gig hard drive
Dropped in the cd and booted from cd...

Once installed I set the networking options, gave the machine a static ip and set dns

Upon reboot I found that I couldnt ping anything on the outside world. Turns out I had to setup dns name resolution. So I did this.

nano /etc/resolv.conf Dropped in my router ip of 192.168.1.1

Saved the file, and was able to do a nslookup on google.

Now to update. From the prompt, yum list updates  this will go out and check what needs to be udpated
Install the updates with this yum update then once they are all in reboot, O wait, dependency not meet. Sheesh.

Yum update skip something or other, ok dependency resolved

Never mind, it crapped out....Forget this yum,dumb update.. Format the disk and go back to ubuntu LTS and
install it from there...

Mythbackend

Log files! GRRR.... You know, it would be nice if there would be some sort of logic when building log files. If there is an error, put it in english....Not freaking cryptic crap that beginning folks dont understand. What happens is that you spend hours looking for what "MIGHT" be the solution but it never is...

Yeah ok this timed out...
MythSocket(ffffffffb2d88218:49): readStringList: Error, timed out after 30000 ms.

WTF is this?
MythSocket(ffffffffa3501340:55): writeStringList: Error, No data written on writeBlock (932 errors)

Why not? This is a stock install..

Attempted to add a rate 32000 Hz, which is not in the list of allowed rates

Mythtv with Windows

I thought I would try to run the windows version of mythtv on an old p3 workstation that I had sitting here. No I wasnt crazy enough to try to compile the whole thing, I cheated. I downloaded the pre-compiled version and ran it. Weird thing is that it is asking for a security pin. But on the backend its set to 0000. Which from my understanding was to not need a pin.....

I haven't got past that part yet to figure out why It is complaining about this. I did find that my mythtv user didn't want to connect to mysql because of the freaking mysql permissions. Trying to find the answer to the stupid 1045 error is like trying to pick the winning power-ball numbers while you are walking the plank on a pirate ship.

Anyways, more to come later....

Issues

Having some issues with mythbuntu at the moment. Well, maybe not the software but the fact that we moved to Charter cable. Since charter is pretty lame about sending channel ids and encrypting most of there channels, the amount of shows to get recorded will probably go down.

Anyways, thinking about backing up the database and re-creating the entire system. Of course the few things that I need to do is save my xorg.conf file, save my custom ebdid.bin file (so audio gets passed correctly) and I think thats about it for now. Maybe some other things that I will remember.

One thing that bugs me is that I opened a Bug about mysql, and there hasnt been any activity on it in like 3 months, I think what the dev's want me to do is remove mysql and reinstall. This is a pretty lame excuse coming from a nix community. Thats more along the line of a windows thing to do.

Mythbuntu

We have now updated all the upcoming shows for this new seson, lets hope mythbuntu doesnt choke on recording 4 channels at once. I guess I need to get my big server in place....