Good work. To me, it looks like a huge step in the right direction.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 3/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Paul Paul</b> <<a href="mailto:paul2004@writeme.com">paul2004@writeme.com
</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I saw some of the comments about my LinuxMCE demo video. Sorry if my voice bothered people. But re: content of the video I have to rebut the claims that I in any way exaggerated the "out of the box" and plug and play nature.
<br><br>True, the hardware compatibility is very small. But, if you do have compatible hardware, it is entirely plug and play. Seriously, I only had to plug in the serial/control port on my Sharp LCD to my pc, and it detected the connection (by monitoring rts/cts change, or looking for new usb/serial devices), and kept pinging the device until it figured out what it was, and then started controlling it. And I only plugged in the hauppauge pvr usb2, and it popped up a 'new tv tuner' device message and asked for my datadirect password/lineup; it even knew I automatically I lived in the
U.S. and would use Data Direct by doing an ip2location lookup first. After that, mythtv was fully configured. Plug in a usb uirt remote dongle, hit the 'menu' button on the wmce remote, the tv turns on, chose media, tv, and myth starts, and the guide data is there. Hit 'power' and it stops. Hit it again to turn the tv off. So you have all the stuff you need in a pvr without every switching to a console, editing a conf file, or doing anything that grandma couldn't do (after installing the software).
<br><br>Don't you feel that is a significant improvement, and a way to get MythTV to a much broader audience? I think that if that happens, more companies will make pvr cards with good Linux drivers, and there will be more hardware to work with Myth. I'll concede several points, including that the LinuxMCE<->Myth integration isn't complete and that my video was lousy, but as far as an architecture that can be built upon to make MythTV easier to get up and going with, I think it's a very good start.
<br><br>No, I don't have any intentions of selling hardware or trying to commercialize LinuxMCE and, personally, oppose it since the whole reason I forked this from Pluto was that being commercial they were too busy taking care of their "paying" clients to concern themselves with the needs of the foss community. And as far as it being simply a 'renamed' Pluto, it took me over 3 months of working on it at least 50 hours a week plus the help of several others to get it to run on a standard distro, like Ubuntu. So it wasn't just a trivial fork. And the PNP functionality to get the PVR card going was my own addition.
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