HDMI -> Channels DVR
Summary DVRs have been around for a long time, but unfortunately streaming services have locked us in to their cloud DVR solutions. As a long time MythTV t...
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hdtv
The end of PVR’s?
Stand up and take a bow Telesales Broadband (UK Broadband company), the company is investing £20 million in the development of TV-on-demand and personal vide...
WishTV from Brad Templeton
From Brad Templeton’s weblog: Brad Ideas: Changing the nature of TV again He has written a perl script to create a wishlist for MythTV. It is a great idea,...
New HD-3000
A few friends and I have taken a leap. We are putting together an order of 8 HD-3000 High Definition recording cards before the famous Broadcast Flag stuff b...
Automating commercial cutting
One of the nice features of mythtv is that it can do commercial detection, and from that, build a cutlist. My biggest problem, and what kept me from using th...
HDTV Viewing update
Not much earth-shattering to report here. The good news is that I have been recording like a madman, and trying to perfect the process before the new fall se...
Remote happiness
I have followed the advice of Jared Wilson a few months ago and went to Radio Shack and picked up a remote. I got the 15-2117 (with the RF command center)....
Fedora Core 2.0 update
I’m still waiting to upgrade to Fedora Core 2.0, for two reasons.
Fedora Core 2.0
It looks like Fedora Core 2.0 is out, and I’ve heard that HDTV playback is significantly improved with Linux kernel 2.6. I think my next step is to create a...
Mission accomplished
The antenna was installed, and now I can reliably receive HDTV signals for all the major channels in the area. Just as I suspected however; I still can’t vi...
HDTV Here I come?
In my continued quest to create a completely usable HDTV tuner, I am getting closer. Tonight, I have a ‘cable guy’ coming over to install my UHF attic anten...
How I use MythTV
As you might have read (if you checked out the MythTV.org web site) MythTV has a boatload of features. I really only use a few of them, but what I do use, I ...
Enter MythTV
In order to view TV through a Linux based HDTV you need a solid client. I wanted something similar to my Dish Network PVR (the 721) where I could do things l...
Enter the HTPC
After researching the ins and outs of HDTV, I decided that building my own Home Theater PC was the way to go. No, really… Stop laughing. I could put the wh...
Where to start?
Well, This is the first post, so I figure I should probably start out with a bit of history. Ann and I bought a big TV… You know, one of those honkers that ...
howto
Things 3: Hacking my way to TZ aware reminders
Summary I ran across this question posted in the r/thingsapp subreddit. The crux of the question was how to handle the case where you set your reminder for...
FastAPI: Writing a FIFO queue with asyncio.Queue
Summary In this quick post I’m going to describe how to use asyncio.Queue in a FastAPI server for processing incoming requests in the background, and in the ...
python,
Using Beanie ODM
Summary
Making The Great Football Pool a Turnkey Product
Summary I have been running a simple online “Pick ‘em” style football pool for decades – since 1995 – and it’s been a source of enjoyment for my friends and ...
howto,
HDMI -> Channels DVR
Summary DVRs have been around for a long time, but unfortunately streaming services have locked us in to their cloud DVR solutions. As a long time MythTV t...
channels,
HDMI -> Channels DVR
Summary DVRs have been around for a long time, but unfortunately streaming services have locked us in to their cloud DVR solutions. As a long time MythTV t...
homelab,
Making The Great Football Pool a Turnkey Product
Summary I have been running a simple online “Pick ‘em” style football pool for decades – since 1995 – and it’s been a source of enjoyment for my friends and ...
football,
Making The Great Football Pool a Turnkey Product
Summary I have been running a simple online “Pick ‘em” style football pool for decades – since 1995 – and it’s been a source of enjoyment for my friends and ...
nfl
Making The Great Football Pool a Turnkey Product
Summary I have been running a simple online “Pick ‘em” style football pool for decades – since 1995 – and it’s been a source of enjoyment for my friends and ...
tgfp
Using Beanie ODM
Summary