Friday, December 26, 2014

mythtv tweaks dec 2014

1.
mythlounge with ubuntu 14.04 shows xfce4-panel (menu bar) in top:

panel properties:
choose: 'Automatically Show and Hide the panel' and ' Don't reserve space on borders'


2.
Shutdown and reboot commands no longer work in mythtv. Edit sudoer's list

sudo visudo to edit the file:

user_name ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/poweroff, /sbin/reboot, /sbin/shutdown

See also http://askubuntu.com/questions/168879/shutdown-from-terminal-without-entering-password


Above makes reboot, but not shutdown work?

Adding 'sudo poweroff' to custom halt command in mythtv--->setup--->general sorts this.

Tip:
have a look at frontend logs whilst using:
tail -f /var/log/mythtv/mythfrontend.log




3.
x11vnc not working from startup:


4.
dvd drive not working within mythtv:

in frontend playback settings specify location of dvd drive:
/dev/sr0

5.
Get Airplay working:
probably gonna need to have mythboxes and wifi on same subnet for this.


6. Fine tuning of mythsunroom:

nvidia overscan settings=50
mythfrontend gui doesn't resize: adjust pixels of gui in settings: appearance to 1831x1031

x11vnc from startup:
http://robot.wpi.edu/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_an_XUbuntu_VNC_Server#Automatically_start_the_server

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