Re: [Discuss] MythTV, Kodi, and HDHR tuners

[aldo_albanese]

This group is always full of knowledge and patient with users that like to 
learn this great Linux platform.  Interesting you mentioned about the hdhomerun 
plug in.  I used it yesterday,  not sure what the differences are but MythTV 
handles these stream files better than directly from hdhomerun to kodi.  When I 
see hd channels from hdhomerun they come all pixels while with MythTV not.  To 
be more exact,  I tried several pvr programs and almost no one can handle these 
files better than MythTV.  My only challenge is moving around Linux and play 
with all these commands like nfs,  etc.   This group surely is getting me 
there. 

Thanks to all

div Original message /divdivFrom: Tom Metro 
tmetro+...@gmail.com /divdivDate:03/26/2015  9:21 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
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[Discuss] MythTV, Kodi, and HDHR tuners /divdiv
/divaldo albanese wrote:
 I'm glad that this post is asking more questions about cablecard, Mythtv
 and etc. I did not want to go off the topic of linux too much.

I consider MythTV, Kodi, etc. to be on topic for BLU as they all run on
Linux. But you will reach an audience with more expertise with those
projects on their respective mailing lists and forums.


 My understanding is that Mythtv uses the stream file from HDHomerun
 and it pass it along to Kodi.

I thought that MythTV had a tuner driver that could talk directly to the
HDHR over Ethernet. It didn't rely on a third party tool to stream the
video to a file.

Once the HDHR is set up as a tuner in MythTV, a MythTV client (there are
several) add-on for Kodi I would expect to stream live video from it
using the MythTV protocol, just as it would with any other tuner type.


 I was thinking to mount the recording directory to
 Qnap and stream from there...

According to:
http://kodi.wiki/view/HDHomeRun

there is direct support (via add-ons) in Kodi to view streams directly
from HDHR tuners without involving any other computers or intermediary
files.

I'm not sure how conflicts are handled when MythTV and Kodi both compete
for available tuners on the HDHR. It may be first-come first-served, or
there may be no protection preventing you from flipping channels on a
tuner in Kodi that MythTV thinks it is using for a recording.


 It needs to pass the wife acceptance (The hard part)...

After you've owned a DVR for a while, the appeal of live TV (except for
news, and sports ball, if you're into that) diminishes. I hardly ever
attempt to use live streaming from my MythTV server. If I want live TV,
I switch to the cable box.

-Tom

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[Discuss] External network scanning service

[Matt Shields]

I've used a number of open source tools such as nmap, Nessus, Saint.  I'm
looking for a SAAS that I can add my subnets and they will scan them daily
and check for open ports and known vulnerabilities, etc and send us a
report.

They don't necessarily need to be full pen testing, but it would be nice if
as they were scanning they could detect things that are being exposed.  For
example, years ago before I knew to turn off Apache httpd's mod_info/server
info, I remember being able to use open source tools to figure out what
version of Apache, PHP, and the operating system.  The report should have
the ability to mark things as known/acceptable, and the report be sent if
something changes.

Also, would be helpful if they offered some type of certification to show
our clients.

Matt
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Re: [Discuss] External network scanning service

[Tom Metro]

Matt Shields wrote:
 I'm
 looking for a SAAS that I can add my subnets and they will scan them daily
 and check for open ports and known vulnerabilities, etc and send us a
 report.

I asked a similar question back in June:

http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40blu.org/msg09068.html

Although my expectation was that a SaaS solution wouldn't do the job as
some exploits need to be performed on the same network segment, although
so few potential attackers would have that access, a SaaS approach is
probably good enough.

The answer I got back was, Isn't that what Metasploit is for?

So why the lack of SaaS offerings? Is it due to technical reasons or
because of fear of liability? (A search did turn up
https://www.qualys.com/; I can't find pricing on their site.)

It sure seems like there ought to be a market for this.

 -Tom

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