Fedora 18 + MythTV

Yet another Fedora upgrade.

background:

been running fedora for the past few years at home; 
Started when I found a machine from a local store that came with it pre-installed (!).

So been updating to the "even" builds, on my mythtv machine ever since.

last update was Fedora 14 -> 16, but did make some mistakes on it then:

did not get the boot sequence correct, and grub was not installed correctly;

ended up installing older second hard disk to boot, and left all my videos on a second "data disk"

Further note:  This machine has "evolved" over time;  Original motherboard died twice, finally gave up and picked up a new motherboard, with a different cpu, went from celeron to amd e350


this time:
Fedora 18 install on a clean 2GB disk, then manual copy the mysql mythtv database + data files.  Did this via an external usb and a netbook on my network...

beginner gotcha: straight scp will make copies of symlinks.... if you have created a subdirectory of symlinks, you end up with two copies of all the files!

Notes so far:

mythtv not in the default fedora repos.
added repo and installed vanilla mythtv+mythweb
copied over the mysql database.






have almost 1TB of video files... that takes a LONG time to copy over a slower network and /or external USB drive or WiFi ...

if you can: use USB3, eSata, or connect both drives to the internal sata !

on initial start: mythtv upgraded database:  nice!
(I let it, as I had the original)

running now:

still have some issues with selinux;

did not allow mysql or mythweb to run;  need to manually setup these


will add further details as I think of them...

red Wii mini review

our old "classic" Wii seems to have a lot of trouble reading disks;  Thought it was just scratches

Finally a brand new game disk failed to read (a holiday gift)

so went out and picked up the "only in Canada" red Wii mini.

Comments:

• reads old "bad disks" just fine.  Mostly the Lego {x} series were problematic on our older "regular" Wii
• do miss the SD card for looking at pictures ;
• do not mind the missing WiFi ;  Could try a usb network port, but have not yet.
• we never used the wireless connection to our DSi
• odd red colour does make it look a bit out of place, sitting next to the TV
• electronic store's 30 day return policy made it low risk

theory:

the older Wii 's DVD drive mechanism appears to be failing:

guesses:

• spinning speed
• led power
• head alignment
• phase of the moon?

Could have tried to break open the case and manually replace, but the red mini was inexpensive enough to spend the time playing the games, rather than soldering ;)

now that we have a second Wii... looking at the homebrew channel for the older one...

Adafruit's WebIDE on latest Raspbian

trying out Adafruit's web ide

initial notes, quick in no particular order...

1) for me did not install via script;
there were some failed dependencies;
(my network may not be the fastest, so likely some time outs)

so the system was not installed.  reran the install script a few times, and it failed at different points.

finally just ran the partially installed startup script as if I had installed manually from git and noted which packages failed to load/install, and installed them manually via sudo npm .

2) version I installed is hardcoded for user pi;  initially tried with a different userid, and system scripts were coded for pi;
-could fix this, but for initial tests, have switched over to pi user.

3) success;
first project running "hello world" and loops!  Very cool.

4) npm is new for me:
lots of "magic" of nodejs ... I'm new to npm and node.js .  IDE does not use python, to teach python?  I was expecting something like idle (icon is on raspbian default desktop)

5) may try c for next set of tests.

6) interesting, IDE is setup for bitbucket, not github?
(I see the ide itself on github)
-could fix this in the code, but leaving with defaults for now.
(I have a github account, created a new account for bitbucket)

New Raspbian running

new raspbian image running. Detected wireless out of box. Found driver is loaded from "staging" area, so hope it will eventually get promoted.

trying turbo mode.

penguinspuzzle does still lock up occasionally.

One slight oddity:
wireless keyboard does not startup all the time.
unplugging wireless usb radio dongle, and plugging back in re-enables.

Fedora on Raspberry Pi, fedoraspberry? pi-dora?

Tried out one of the Fedora 17 images
I use Fedora on my netbook, so it was familiar

Notes:
The video settings are different than raspbian. Noticed due to running on a SD TV
Pygame was not installed by default, but a quick

 yum install 

enabled it, and could run wormy.

Fedora 17 + acer aspire one SD Card reader fix

my netbook : Acer Aspire One D257-1814

did not recognize the SD card reader with the default Fedora 17 build. Googled and found that a missing "staging" module was required:

having previously installed rpmfusion:

yum install kmod-staging
modprobe keucr

(did reboot)

now inserting my SD card brings up the file dialog!

necessary to rebuild raspberry pi images.

Update: 2014
Fedora 20 "just works"
out of box.
no new mods required.

Raspbmc and MythTV, via WiFi, no extra codec

MythTV videos playing on the Raspberry Pi

notes:
MythTV setup on Fedora creates files that do not play on a default setup; but if they have been transcoded, they play.
All defaults, did not change MythTV settings.
TV card:Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-USB2 MPEG2 Encoder/Tuner