MythTV Stuff
MythTV is absolutely amazing. I have setup combined frontend/backend boxes on Fedora
Core 4 and Fedora 7 and have not looked back since. Here are some things that may be useful:
mythfindfile -- mythfindfile-1.00.tgz
MythTV stores files in fairly cryptic filenames, at least to humans. Since I frequently work with these files from another machine, it quickly became tedious to login to mysql to find the file I wanted. This script allows for listing of all recordings, and also optionally renaming them so that the title/subtitle appears in the filename, moving the files on the filesystem and making the necessary database changes.
Usage:
mythfindfile.pl -l: list all recordings/filenames
mythfindfile.pl -l SEARCH_STRING: list all recordings matching case-insensitive SEARCH_STRING
mythfindfile.pl -r: rename all filenames
mythfindfile.pl -r SEARCH_STRING: rename all recordings matching case-insensitive SEARCH_STRING
See the script itself for full details. This has been designed and tested on mythtv-0.19 and may or may not work with anything else.
UPDATE: This search/rename functionality may have been moved into mythrename.
Tips n' Tricks (to be entered into wiki if appropriate)
lirc setup: Lirc can be time-consuming to setup, though the reward is well worth the effort.
I have an ATI Remote Wonder that I successfully setup in both Fedoras. Here is my lircd.conf and
lircrc, and some stumbling blocks I have hit in Fedora.
- No symlink in /dev, so lircd will not start. 'cd /dev; ln -s lirc0 lirc'
- No config file in /etc, so lircd init script will not start. If you cannot find a
pre-existing config file, you will need to run irrecord. Start lircd manually at the
command line: 'lircd &' and then irrecord.
- Both lircd and lircrc should be in /etc (perhaps not lircrc but it is easier).
- Create a symlink to lircrc in your myth user's home: 'ln -s /etc/lircrc ~MYTHUSER/.lircrd'
- Mythtv only reads lircrc in ~MYTHUSER/.mythtv/lircrc: 'ln -s /etc/lircrc ~MYTHUSER/.mythtv/lircrc'
- Irexec for useful power button function (see wilsonet)
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