This is an archive of stuff I've slapped at the top of the main page over time...
Quite a few updates to ye olde guide today. Went through and nuked a bunch of old stuff, particularly in the ivtv areas, which wasn't relevant anymore. Also added a few details on the DVB front, updates a bunch of linked references, pointed folks toward the official wiki for plugin setup info and so on...
Oh, and in semi-related news... I've joined forces with the MythDora guys, and we're working on a Fedora Core 6-based release built using the new Fedora distro spin tool, pungi, which is actually authored by a buddy of mine at Red Hat. I'm primarily working on customizing the installer and firstboot bits right now, after finally getting everything in order with pungi (which is more targeted for the upcoming Fedora 7 release than FC6, so there was a bit of work to do to make it play nice). We're still sorting out some driver and MythTV issues, mainly on the DVB front, but I think its almost ready...
Ready or not, here comes Zod. Fedora Core 6 version ready to rock and roll... Just finished going through a bare-metal-to-working-system install following these directions, fixing a ton of inconsistencies that have cropped up along the way, so hopefully, people will find an FC6 MythTV install very painless. Oh yeah, and no adding ATrpms packages at install time just yet, ATrpms needs a bit of extra repo config work to play nice with the installer.
Okay, so Fedora Core 6 is out. I'll try to get around to updating this for FC6 sooner in its lifetime than I did with FC5... One really cool addition in FC6: the ability to enable 3rd-party repositories at install-time. That means both updates and atrpms packages can all be installed in one fell swoop. Hopefully, I'll even get around to an automated kickstart... Oh yeah, its been brought to my attention that some of the ivtvctl commands are no longer valid for ivtv 0.8, which is needed for 2.6.18 kernels (such as the latest FC5 one and all FC6 ones to date). Will try to address that soon as well.
MythTV 0.20 is out, get it while its hot. ATrpms packages are ready and waiting for your installation pleasure. Been running 0.20 since a few hours after it was officially released myself, and so far, so good. :)
Okay, six months and 3000+ miles later, me and the family are now residing in Northern Massachusetts, with me pretty well settled into my job at Red Hat. I finally squirreled away some time away from the wife and kids and work and joys of home ownership to get this update out the door... MUCH tardier than I'd have liked, but life has been a wee bit busy... So anyhow, here's the first official FC5 cut of this document... It really isn't all that different from the FC4 version, just some minor updates here and there. I've been running my own Myth boxes on FC5 since a few days before it was even released to mirrors, really nothing significantly different from the perspective of Myth.
Yes, there will be a Fedora Core 5 version of this doc. I'm now happily running FC5 on all my MythTV boxes, but there are a few drivers that need updated packages built (lirc requires some patches from cvs, ivtv has to bump to the 0.6 tree) before its ready for mainstream usage (not to mention the shipped kernel breaking the nvidia driver). I'm also a bit buried with relocation details, prep for FUDCon Boston 2006 (where I'll be doing a talk on MythTV), work on a MythTV book and starting a new job, so I dunno when I'll actually get all the FC5 bits out the door...
Holy crap, its been a while... Been rather busy with both work and family, haven't had much time for Myth'ing. And yes, I'm aware the ivtv section of this doc is grossly out of date in places, I'll get around to a complete update one of these days... MythTV 0.19 is out, as of a few days ago. I'm already running it, no problems to speak of on my end. Fedora Core 5 is almost out too, and I'll get together an update for that a bit after its released.
Oh yeah, I just accepted ANOTHER new job. This one's definitely a long-term keeper (not that Linux Networx wasn't, but if you know me, you'll understand in a second). I start March 6, and will be relocating to the Westford, MA area (about an hour outside Boston) by May. My new employer: Red Hat. :)
Still extremely busy with the new job, but while sitting in airports and airplanes, I did manage to hack together something that resembles a Fedora Core 4 version of this doc. A bit of a paradigm shift here, this doc now uses yum instead of apt. We'll see how that goes... Sorry for the tardiness, I'd hoped to get this out the door ages ago, but life happens (speaking of which, kid number 2 due within a month...).
I'm starting a new job with Linux Networx next week. Such being the case, I've been rather busy wrapping up with my current job and preparing for the new one (which involves the first two weeks being out of town for some training at company HQ in Utah). Still intending to move this document to Fedora Core 4 as soon as possible though...
Been a tad bit on the really busy side lately, haven't had much time for updates or the mailing list or my inbox or... You get the picture. Anyhow, just letting everyone know I'm still here, still maintaining this doc when I have the time. Anyhow, the "stable" MythTV branch I'm maintaining seems to be a hit with end-users, we're getting fixes for bugs out there a lot faster (at least for RH/FC systems, where Axel is pulling the fixes back into his released builds even before a new "stable" release is put out). Hm, the next big update to this document will likely come with a switch to Fedora Core 4, since its due out tomorrow (June 6th)... UPDATE: got pushed back to the 13th.
A while back, I volunteered to maintain a "stable" MythTV branch, into which only fixes for the current release version were pulled. Well, the first fruits of that labor are out in the wild now, in the form of a MythTV 0.18.1 release. Notes on what all was fixed can be found on the MythTV homepage, and there were two feature additions, internal channel-change support for DCT-6200 series cable box users (like myself) and the addition of support for the value-add services provided by TechnoVera's LxM Suite. I think these guys are going to have a very positive impact on the future of MythTV, look for more information on that front to surface in the coming weeks...
ATrpms has moved all MythTV 0.18 packages to its stable repository, and I upgraded all my production boxes to 0.18 this past weekend. Very uneventful upgrade, everything still Just Works for me. Time to bump this doc to 0.18 as well! I've also done a bit further work tweaking the look of my page here, though I've recently found out it doesn't render well in Opera (the original theme designer has a new rev which I may need to migrate to). The other thing I've been working on a bit lately is my own weblog (note the link in the black bar above), complete with matching theme. How much I'll use it, I dunno...
Well, MythTV 0.18 is out, but I've not yet had a chance to upgrade my own systems, and there are still some kinks being worked out with the ATrpms packages, due to changes needed to support the new configure scripts in 0.18, so it isn't in the stable repository just yet. I hope to get my own boxes upgraded ever-so-shortly though... So the only real changes in this version are a kernel version bump and the addition of Google AdWords, which hopefully help out both readers and myself. :-)
This version debuts a first crack at instructions for using PVR-150 and PVR-500 cards, along with setup instructions for capture via FireWire from a supported cable box. A number of other small fixes have worked their way in as well. Still trying to catch up...
Fixed the printer-friendly page, you can now set it up to display only what you want before sending it to print. Clicking the link in the sidebar should also pass along whatever settings you've chosen on this page. Some day, I hope to further expand on this show/hide stuff to let users to start by picking their specific hardware and then show them only the relevant parts...
I've finally got a fix that makes sure any video4linux (ivtv, bttv, cx88) drivers and lirc drivers are automatically loaded at boot time, very early on (just as udev starts up). It only took the simple addition of a few lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit. You can grab my diff here. There is also an lircrc file for the new grey Hauppage remote, courtesy of Brad Templeton.
Not much content change here, just a complete overhaul of the show/hide code on this page. I was inspired by Andrew E. Schulman's Debian-nVidia HOWTO, which I recently went through (Debian is the second most popular distro in my house :-). I shamelessly stole some of his css and javascript code and then went crazy with it, adding all sorts of fun php session stuff (which I've never done before, I'm pretty pumped that it actually seems to work). Anywho, there are now numerous sections of information that are collapsed by default, and will expand (and re-collapse) when you click on their headers. Hopefully, this better isolates what information relates to what, and makes it easier to only look at the parts relevant to your system. The controls below can be used to alter the default behavior. Browsers without any javascript support should simply leave everything open, if I've done everything correctly...
I have a feeling the printer-friendly page might be slightly broken by all these changes, I'll see what I can do to remedy that over the weekend...
Revamped the versioning scheme, now just letting things be called by their subversion revision numbers. Having these pages under source control is something I should have done LONG ago. Having the bug tracker linked to the repository as closely as it is helps too (can close bugs via hooks that grab data out of my commit messages). Not that any of this really has anything to do with MythTV, per se, but its making my life easier, and incremental changes much, much easier. It should allow me to get smaller updates out on a more regular basis, as well as making it much easier for people to submit document patches, rather than just telling me something is wrong.
Again, you can get at the source to these pages via a subversion checkout from https://svn.wilsonet.com/svn/mythtvology/trunk or browse the source (and associated wiki, bug tracker, change log, etc.) at http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/.
I'm still behind on updates, but getting there... If you have something new for me, please open a new ticket at http://svn.wilsonet.com/projects/mythtvology/newticket, that'll help much more than an email that'd likely end up buried for a while. (I'm still slogging through emails dating back a few months, adding stuff to the bug tracker as I find it).
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