I thought that this was an interesting concept if you want to have another 3D screen around that isn’t your TV. The author seemed to like the product. However, for the price ($700) I would take a look at a smaller 3D capable TV. We live in a three-dimensional world, and display […]
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I recently posted that MythTV 0.24.2 was released. Well, one of the developers of MythTV has posted to the list a proposed schedule for MythTV 0.25. This is the first schedule that I’ve seen with actual dates. Keep in mind that these are targets and not hard deadlines. MythTV devs have always said that they will release updates when they […]
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SilverStone has been in the HTPC case design business for a long time now. They make some very nice cases that are used by many in the community. Recently, the folks over at Benchmark Reviews got their hands on the SST-GD06B which we recently reviewed as well. Depending on your needs, this may be a case to consider looking at. […]
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It looks like I’m behind the times again. Over the weekend the MythTV project has released version 0.24.2. This release is mainly a backport of bug fixes that will be added into 0.25 once it is released. This release is not meant to provide any new major features. You still need to wait for 0.25 for that. However, if you […]
Read moreI’m happy to say that after weeks of work (I can’t believe that it actually took that long. I’m so ashamed) I have a frontend that works very nicely. I should have posted this a few days ago but I’ve been happily enjoying my new setup. For the most part it’s been working great. I have really been enjoying the […]
Read moreSo, there was one more enhancement that I decided to make to the frontend before putting it back into service. While I was looking into getting the suspend function mapped to a button on my remote, I ran across this page on the MythTV wiki. While the command shown for suspending the PC didn’t work for me, I did like the […]
Read moreToday was spent primarily on cleanup work. Most of the time was creating the lircrc file for MythTV to use, which maps the remote control button codes to commands within an application. Luckily for me I had a backup of the lircrc files that I had been using before the upgrade. The only problem is that all of the button […]
Read moreSo today I was doing a bit of stress testing of the frontend system to make sure that it was ready for me to put back into use. It turns out there were still a couple of bugs to work out. You may recall from this blog post that I ended up using Fedora 15 with KDE as the desktop […]
Read moreWell, it turns out that I’m a moron. Apparently everything was pretty much working for me already. I had all of the pieces, I just didn’t put them together correctly. After days of work I finally have LIRC recognizing my remote inputs properly. Basically what happened is that I configured the startup script for LIRC to load the correct driver […]
Read moreI guess I got a little distracted today. In doing some of my research for using LIRC with my iMon IR receiver that is part of the Antec Fusion 430 Black case, I ran across a couple of web pages that discussed getting the LCD screen working with LCDProc. So that’s what I did today. Now when I go through […]
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