Re: Mythtv users + Comcast subscribers
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Christopher Rutter christopherrut...@gmail.com wrote: Very interesting... I've been trying to get my MythTV setup off the ground and the reason for my procrastination has been this (getting my channel lineup configured). I have a HDHomeRun connected to comcast basic cable (no boxes), I read on the SilconDust forums [1] a while back that someone has figured out a way to get the lineup from SilconDust's resources website [2], I never pursude it because I thought it was a sloppy solution, and a few people on the forums said to avoid it if possible. After re-reading the forum thread it looks like SilconDust has built an API for their lineup server [3], so that we might be able to use that instead of the python scripts. Just curious Greg, are you using a HDHR? Yes Anyone out there using a HDHR? If so have you tried setting up your channel lineup using this solution [1]? or the solution Greg mentioned? Results? I haven't seen the python script before, so I haven't tried that. With the new project I mentioned, it looks like they are trying to integrate that with with the HDHomeRun. When I initially tried scte65scan-0.2.1 it failed to generate anything for a table listing. Even though I just bought the HDHomeRun, at this point I figured I should check the firmware version. $ hdhomerun_config get /sys/version 20080427 What?! It's over a year old. That could definitely be causing some problems with the new channel magic. Get the firmware at http://www.silicondust.com/downloads/linux e.g. wget http://download.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/hdhomerun_atsc_firmware_20090415.bin hdhomerun_config discover (to get the DEVICE_ID) hdhomerun_config DEVICE_ID upgrade ~/Documents/hdhomerun_atsc_firmware_20090415.bin Now when I run scte, I get results ./scte65scan -H 1015C390 -p -v -f2 us-Cable-Standard-center-frequencies-QAM256 tables.csv There is even one VCT_ID that gives about 80 channels. (I receive about 80 clear QAM channels with Comcast Digital Starter in Newburyport, MA.) But, they don't match up with what I've found manually :-( So, at this point I'm going to install MythWeb - because I've read that it's a lot easier to edit the channels in that interface -- and edit the channels manually. p.s. Wow, the Mythweb interface is SO much better than the onscreen channel editor instructions for editing channel info. I'm going to make that note on the MythTV site wiki -- Greg Rundlett Web Developer - Initiative in Innovative Computing http://iic.harvard.edu camb 617-384-5872 nbpt 978-225-8302 m. 978-764-4424 -skype/aim/irc/twitter freephile http://profiles.aim.com/freephile ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
[OT] Experience with getting participation in school web site by teachers
This is totally off-topic (except that we use Linux for all of the server infrastructure there), but I figured some of you may have some insight on this issue. We have an elementary school as a client. They want to have a more dynamic web site with teachers / classrooms having more up-to-date web presence. Web presence defined as any of web page(s), blogs, wiki, etc. Each classroom sub-site could be different. They just want to have something which teachers would update with minimal effort for those who won't/can't expend more effort. As most places, there are a few zealous ones, a bulk of if-it's-not-too-much-trouble (or, to be honest, I-don't-have-enough-time-as-it-is) ones and a few no-way-no-how ones. They do not have a clear idea of what they want to present, nor to whom. (I know that ought to be the first thing, but they simply don't know yet.) This is brain-storming phase. They tried a website some years ago, with each classroom having a web page, but it bogged down. They were using various web editors (Publisher mostly), and most people got tied up in the effort of creating web pages that looked good to them, versus content that was useful to others. I am not looking for ways to inspire them (though I will be happy to listen to any). I am looking for tools to make it easy for them to update content (broadly defining content) and provide an overarching structure to make it easy-to-find. They have four Linux servers (Mandriva), with the usual LAMP. We are planning on overhaul of their Linux servers this summer to address performance (on their email server/web filter) and storage issues (they are doing much more video editing and space has gotten tight). This summer would be a good time to put any new infrastructure for this in place. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, - 603-206-9951 *** IT support excellence for thirty years ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
Re: [OT] Experience with getting participation in school web site by teachers
I setup WordPress for a personal blog and for two non-profit organizations that I'm involved with. It's designed to work with the LAMP stack. In fact, in one case, we ended up switching web hosts (IIS/Windows/ColdFusion server to Linux/Apache/PHP) just to make it easier to get WordPress setup. In any case, I think WordPress would be an excellent fit for your requirements. The pages are all editable using a rich text editor in a modern web browser (like recent versions of Firefox). For your case, I think the effort would be minimal enough for each teacher to edit their static pages and blog posts. Uploading pictures with thumbnails is very easy. You can also upload a bunch of themes to your server and then each teacher could pick a theme and even fairly easily switch themes while preserving the underlying content. One of the neat things is that a change history is kept for the pages/posts so you can easily see what changed. --Peter If your curious, here's the sites that I've had a hand in creating or maintaining over the last 6 months or so: http://www.dobratz.us/blog - baby pictures. This was my first foray into WordPress and it was created with a 2-week-old at home and under the duress of receiving many emails from relatives near and far complaining about not having enough baby pictures. The wordpress instructions claimed that it takes 15 minutes to install. It took me 30 minutes (file permissions needed modifying, PHP file upload limit needed and increase). http://www.litchfieldchurch.org/ - this is a new URL for my church and new website. It replaced the old website which was handcrafted using static HTML pages with updates every 3 months or so. http://www.nashabitat.org/ - replaced an existing handcrafted site with ColdFusion. Updates ot the site were spotty, and sometimes would take 6 months. One tricky thing here was a web form, but we found a WordPress plugin to handle this: http://www.deliciousdays.com/cforms-plugin On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Dan Jenkins d...@rastech.com wrote: This is totally off-topic (except that we use Linux for all of the server infrastructure there), but I figured some of you may have some insight on this issue. We have an elementary school as a client. They want to have a more dynamic web site with teachers / classrooms having more up-to-date web presence. Web presence defined as any of web page(s), blogs, wiki, etc. Each classroom sub-site could be different. They just want to have something which teachers would update with minimal effort for those who won't/can't expend more effort. As most places, there are a few zealous ones, a bulk of if-it's-not-too-much-trouble (or, to be honest, I-don't-have-enough-time-as-it-is) ones and a few no-way-no-how ones. They do not have a clear idea of what they want to present, nor to whom. (I know that ought to be the first thing, but they simply don't know yet.) This is brain-storming phase. They tried a website some years ago, with each classroom having a web page, but it bogged down. They were using various web editors (Publisher mostly), and most people got tied up in the effort of creating web pages that looked good to them, versus content that was useful to others. I am not looking for ways to inspire them (though I will be happy to listen to any). I am looking for tools to make it easy for them to update content (broadly defining content) and provide an overarching structure to make it easy-to-find. They have four Linux servers (Mandriva), with the usual LAMP. We are planning on overhaul of their Linux servers this summer to address performance (on their email server/web filter) and storage issues (they are doing much more video editing and space has gotten tight). This summer would be a good time to put any new infrastructure for this in place. Does anyone have any suggestions? -- Dan Jenkins, Rastech Inc., Bedford, NH, - 603-206-9951 *** IT support excellence for thirty years ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/ ___ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
