On Mon, February 25, 2008 1:34 pm, Karl Cunningham wrote: > On 2/25/2008 12:57 PM, Lan Barnes wrote: >> I love my Myth and wouldn't have it any other way, but if you want it to >> "just work," be sure to do comparison shopping against whatever the dish >> provider would supply you with ... and remember to put some value on >> your >> time. > > Lan -- knowing what you do now, if you were given all the hardware all > put together, how much time do you think it would take you to get a > system up and running to the same state as what you already have. > > Just trying to get some idea of the magnitude of the task. (Like I need > another project...) > > Karl >
For a competent Linux person, I'd say a day to a week. A day (or less) to slap the cards in, boot w/ a distro (Knoppix, MythDora, UbuntuMyth, etc), wire it up and open an account with the service for TV listings (approx $35/6 months). A week if anything refuses to work out of the box. However, Myth just goes on and on and on (photos, music, internet, DVD ripping and mastering, hell, I think I saw a recipes section in the meuns). So where do you stop? Also, it's in 0.2xx, and the mailing list is chock-a-block with people having problems. Many are Linux naifs, but there are still issues. For example, I was having front end freeze-ups. Turns out if you leave it on the recording selection screen (which has a thumbnail screen to preview the show you have the cursor over); and if you let the thumbnail run to the end; then when you exit, the front end won't reload the menu. That's an ssh and reboot for me because the startup is complex enough that I don't want to risk dinking with it. I love Myth for the flexibility and power. As a true C/S, I can stream recordings to any computer on my home network, opening up our television capabilities so no one has to wait for anyone else. And Myth will flag and skip commercials, which AFAIK is verboeten in commercial products. Still, it can be a time sink. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
