MythTV installfest notes, 3-March-2007

2007-03-05 Thread Ted Roche
Thirteen folks attended the alpha MythTV installfest. A good time was had by all. Pizza was eaten. Pictures were taken (http:// www.flickr.com, keyword search on gnhlug mythtv). Several people got machines working, and others got some great pointers. We learned a great deal about how to run

Re: MythTV web signup page

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 23:23 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/4/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That is because they have not been created yet. Some people on the mailing list like to be told what will happen, then be told what is happening, then be told what has happened.

Re: MythTV installfest notes, 3-March-2007

2007-03-05 Thread Bill Sconce
Two comments. at the end... ___ On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:47:59 -0500 Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thirteen folks attended the alpha MythTV installfest. A good time was had by all. Pizza was eaten. Pictures were taken (http:// www.flickr.com,

Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
Hi, At the 0.1 installfest pilot, Bill Stearns brought a box called HDHomerun, sold by 9thtee.com (who sell upgrades to Tivo): http://www.silicondust.com/wiki/products/hdhomerun http://www.9thtee.com/hdhomerun.htm It has two HD Digital tuners built in, an IR receiver for handling IR signals

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11:49 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Should we be looking at the HDHomeRun I'd say yes... and Cablebox/Firewire solution for the real Installation Fest? ...and not sure. If we do this, we'd really need people to bring their cable boxes with them, obviously. How well a

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:51 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11:49 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Should we be looking at the HDHomeRun I'd say yes... When it comes in, I will tell you and we can get together to try it out with a real cable feed and OTA feed. and

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 05 March 2007 12:04:23 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:51 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11:49 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Should we be looking at the HDHomeRun I'd say yes... When it comes in, I will tell you and we can get together to

MythTV installfest notes, 3-March-2007

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
I have moved the subject back to MythTV Installfest notes, since this has less to do with MythTV in general and more about the installfest. On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 13:28 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: On 3/5/07, Ted Roche [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pizza was eaten. And thanks to the fine gentleman

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 12:52 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 12:04:23 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 11:51 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 11:11:49 Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote: Should we be looking at the HDHomeRun I'd say yes...

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Ben Scott
On 3/5/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jarodas an owner of HDHomeRun, could you enlighten us on why someone would not just buy one of those and plug it into their low-end Pentium box that has a lot of disk and a 100 Mbit/sec ETHERNET controller as a back end to MythTV?

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Monday 05 March 2007 15:06:33 Ben Scott wrote: On 3/5/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jarodas an owner of HDHomeRun, could you enlighten us on why someone would not just buy one of those and plug it into their low-end Pentium box that has a lot of disk and a 100

Re: Thinking outside the (MythTV) box.....

2007-03-05 Thread Jon 'maddog' Hall
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 16:34 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Monday 05 March 2007 15:06:33 Ben Scott wrote: On 3/5/07, Jon 'maddog' Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So Jarodas an owner of HDHomeRun, could you enlighten us on why someone would not just buy one of those and plug it into their