Archive for January 28th, 2010

January 28th, 2010

Neat little logic ‘hack’: remote control power commands. Also, monitoring and auto-restarting an unreliable daemon

This is the kind of thing I just love. Now I have my PVR setup, it’s possible for the power state of the cable box to get kind of ‘out of sync’, with the combination of two different ’setups’ – direct TV, and PVR – that use it, and my Harmony remote control for controlling [...]

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January 28th, 2010

(Another) new tweaking project – MythTV Firewire HD PVR

So I managed to find myself yet another ‘little’ project. I’ve had an HTPC for years, running Freevo; but that’s all it’s been, it just plays videos and music. At the very start I had it set up as an analog PVR, and recorded all of two things on it, but then the sound broke [...]

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