Great news, MythTV now works on FireTV. I have tested this with all versions of FireTV hardware except the original version (i don’t have this one) and they work to different degrees. You should stay clear of wireless and hard wire in to ensure no issues occur. The new 4k stick definitely shows its hardware prowess here. I also can’t complain about the second gen FireTV. Get all the details at the link below.
here is a quick and simple SQL query to determine what updates supersede and update.
Here is the code, just replace the articleID in the where statement with the update you want to look at.
select distinct
vui.ArticleID,
(select vui3.ArticleID + ',' as 'data()'
from v_UpdateInfo vui2
join v_CIRelationEx vre on vre.ToCIID = vui2.CI_ID
join v_UpdateInfo vui3 on vre.FromCIID = vui3.CI_ID
where vui2.CI_ID = vui.CI_ID and vre.RelationType = 6
group by vui3.ArticleID
order by vui3.ArticleID desc
for xml path('')
) as SupersededBy
from v_UpdateInfo vui
where vui.ArticleID = '4464217'
These delectable delights can be used for just about any occasion. Bacon wrapped chicken bites! The best part is you can garnish them with anything
Doesn’t that look good?
You can add some Garnish of some sort here. I like to add BBQ sauce or a brown sugar/chilli powder mixture (1 cup brown sugar, 1-2 tsp chilli powder). you can play with the chilli powder ratio to find the right mixture you like. To drop some sugar mixture on the top use a melon baller to to create a tight back of sugar in a small ball and drop it on top of the chicken bite. I prefer the OXO melon baller as it has two sizes. I use the small side for this application. The BBQ sauce is very straight forward, put some on the chicken bite and they should look something like this…..
Light brown topping = brown sugar mixture, dark brown = BBQ sauce
And after another 10-15 minutes under some heat this comes out…
Doesn’t that look tasty? 🙂
I am surprised that there is no flash capability in chromium to start out with in Mythbuntu. after some digging around I figured out how to install it. To start Follow the instructions in the Ubuntu wiki. Once you have done that, you need to enable it in Chromium itself as some of it is disabled.
You should be set to go. ESPN, Youtube should all play videos using hardware acceleration now (assuming you installed your graphics driver correctly).
So a few months back I was really excited to see some Desktop PC’s come out using the BayTrail. In paticular I saw the Zotac Pico and the Minix z64 as pretty good starts to using ultra low power x86 SOC’s desktop computers. When the Pico became available I jumped on the chance to get one. What I learned is this thing is full of flaws.
To my dismay, I sent this back for a refund. The Minix z64 is still in limbo and while the LIVA is only a dual-core cpu, it still handles all my MythTV requirements with little problem. I can play a H.264 DTS-MA video at 10mbit rate without any hiccups. Hopefully when the Braswell platform comes out they will be able to address all the flaws and add in simple things like an ethernet port and stop trying to gimmick the public with “Scenario Design Power”.
So I have been playing around with setting up an OpenStack implementation and wanted to automate the deployment of operating systems. The first thing that came to mind is that the default hyper-visor is Linux KVM which obviously is on the Linux operating system. What I needed to do is pre-populate some Machine variables that SCCM could use to select the correct OS, PC Name, Networking Speed, AV install, etc and just boot the machine and everything would be zero touch. My first implementation was a powershell script that used the SCCM powershell module to connect to our SCCM primary and add those variables. The problem I ran into is that since I am supporting OSD on a Non-Windows platform, I needed some other way besides powershell. I am already a user and Fan of Maik Koster’s Deployment Web service. I already knew that Maik had not written any methods for the machine variables in his service. So I searched around on the internet to see if anyone had picked this request up and to my surprise, no one had written this one up.
Now Maik’s Service is written in VB Language but I haven’t coded in VB in at least 15 years. So I decided to attempt to write a service in C# since that is what I have been working with the past 6 years. Web services are pretty much standard coding except for the data you are querying. After a ton of Cheetos, Doritos, Root-beer, Sierra Mist, ho-hos, Christmas Tree Cakes, Santa Brownies, and red velvet Christmas tree cakes I created this….
I have created 3 methods to use, DeleteMachineVariable, GetMachineVariable, and SetMachineVariable. The Get and Set Machine Variables are pretty straight forward, they will return 0 for success and a 1 for failure. For the GetMachineVariable method I added all three parts of the variable. These are the Name, Value, and IsMasked. The IsMasked field accepts $true or $false. In the screenshot below you can see some powershell calls to retrieve results from the web service.
The results of those commands are show in the console output and can be used in anyway you use normal powershell code.
In the results screenshot you can see that there is a variable with a IsMasked that is set to True and the Value for that variable is empty. this seems to be by design. I’m not sure why you would want to use a Masked variable but if you do just know that its not readable by the web service for the value information.
This web service is intended to be an supplement to Maik’s web service. If you want to submit machine variables from the client, you will have to first call GetResourceID method in Maik’s web service to get that resourceID associated with the MAC address of the client.
Setting the web service up is the same as Maik’s and even the logging folder is similar. you will have to modify the Web.config file and change the SiteServer, SiteCode, ADAccount, and ADPassword settings to access your SCCM Primary or CAS. I run a CAS and three primaries and have the web service pointed at the CAS and it works just fine with replication. You could install the web service on each Primary if you like. Additionally, this web service is written in .NET 4.0. You may ask why 4.0 and not 3.0/2.0? The answer is simple, SCCM 2012 R2 is leveraging .NET 4.0 and I wanted to keep things consistent. Besides, who wants to use tech almost 10 years ago…..
Maik’s website
Maik’s Web Service on CodePlex
Download: SCCM_MV
My last problem is related to the way DHCP is handled with ubuntu. Now I could have disabled DHCP and just set everything static but I reload my frontends on a regular basis so I didn’t want to do that every time I setup a frontend. Instead I have created a script to start mythtv after a 10 second delay.
ECS LIVA Setup Part 1
ECS LIVA Setup Part 2
ECS LIVA Setup Part 3
So when i first got the LIVA i was not impressed with it at all. It did not work as I expected it to and felt I got ripped off. Needless to say after figuring out a few tweaks those problems are now gone. Today i will show you the first one that is the most painful.
To give you some background, I have loaded the Intel Graphics driver fine according to Intel’s support page. the problem I ran into is that every time I turned my TV off the HDMI connection would drop and when I turned the TV back on it would show in the logs as reconnected but the TV would still show no input. After trying several different TV’s and Computer monitors I gave up for a few months. One nite i decided to look again and here is what i came up with for a solution.
ECS LIVA Setup Part 1
ECS LIVA Setup Part 2
ECS LIVA Setup Part 4
#cont loop to see connected hdmi and reset display while true do if (xrandr | grep "HDMI1 connected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)" > /dev/null) then xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1920x1080 -r 60.0 fi sleep 10 done
This concludes Part 2, you should now have a fully functional ubuntu pc. Next part i will give you some stuff to tweak a few quirks with Intel and DHCP networking.
ECS LIVA Setup Part 1
ECS LIVA Setup Part 3
ECS LIVA Setup Part 4
I have had this PC since it came out in July and thought i should do a writeup to share my thoughts and how to set it up. ECS has managed to create a nice x86 PC where others have failed with a nice CPU, Video, and Price features. I run Mythbuntu on all 3 of my LIVA’s. I have tried Windows 8.1 on one of them and it does pretty well even though the LIVA only features 32GB hard drive and 2GB ram for the version I have.
All versions of the LIVA are the same except for the hard drive storage which comes in 32GB and 64GB configurations. Feature wise you will find all the latest and greatest connectors on this mini pc. The USB 3.0 connector is a welcome upgrade that you wont find on any of the BayTrail Tablet Chip offerings such as the Zotac Pico. While I do like the fact it has a Gbit ethernet adapter on it, for the purpose of a MythTV frontend its not really needed. In the Next few posts I will show you how to install Mythbuntu and get it ready to watch movies and television.
ECS LIVA Setup Part 2
ECS LIVA Setup Part 3
ECS LIVA Setup Part 4