LAN + Networks

Another pointer I found at this site:

http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/10/16/mythtv-button-sounds/

is about how to add sounds to MythTV remote buttons being pushed - kinda handy.

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I came across this blog article

http://outflux.net/blog/archives/2005/10/

about setting the proper dpi (dots per inch) for the MythTV screens. He points to this article:

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Display_Size

which has a fairly complete outline of how to make this change happen.

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Second part - have kitchen webcam send regular pictures

Found this great blog with instructions ... looks like since I want to use SSH (scp really) to copy the images around, that I'll have to set up SSH passkeys for the webcam user.

http://girasoli.org/?p=66

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Managed to set up the new firewall computer to work with the Kensington USB Webcam using the se401 kernel module. New comp had a different USB type than the previous Intel motherboard, so new kernel time! (didn't realize that until an hour into debugging why webcam no longer output pictures :-/

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Ok, so the latest version of MythWeather in gentoo as of this date is still having issues because the data from the weather info provider changed in format. So, I decided to grab the latest from MythTV - apparently the mythweather-revamp work has replaced the broken older version of MythWeather.

So grab the latest plugin from mythtv.org's svn repository: (I put mine in the directory mythtrunk-2007-07-22)

# svn co http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/trunk/mythplugins/ mythtrunk-2007-07-22
[snip]
Checked out revision 14027.

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