One last check before I move to the "Dark Side"...
Have been fighting with this for almost a month.
Our PVR died, a Topfield 2400 series, and I have been thinking for ages that when such an event may happen, I would change tack, and create a full Media Centre, on a decent PC.
So obtained the PC, then had to decide what distro/programs to install.
So far I have been through Mint/striaght Ubuntu, and now Opensuse (my preferred distro anyway), but I am at the point now where I am going to chuck it all, and fork out for Windows, or even go back to a standalone PVR.
If this was just for me, I would have had it up and running weeks ago, but unfortunately the main user is my darling, and she is a bit more particular than I!
Have been concentrating on using MythTV backend as the PVR, and XBMC as the frontend. One of the main reasons for XBMC is that it does Aust. Catchup TV, that works well....
My issues:
1/ The remote. Found that, yes, got the remote working well, on Ubuntu, out of the box. This was using Lirc. All just seemed to come together. But... on opensuse (13.1, x64, KDE, fully patched) have tried both with and without Lirc, but can't seem to get anywhere near a properly configured remote. I am in a bit of a quandary, as to how the flow, for example, without Lirc, gets from the remote, through a config file (ir-keytable -r), and then forwarded to XBMC. Seem to be able to get some of the codes working, but others just elude me.. (sorry about the very technical talk!)
2/ My other issue is the whole putting the device to sleep/wake up for recording, thing.
Has anybody any suggestions for a relatively 'foolproof' fix for any/all these issues (nicely...)?
Sorry to bring this up, but previously have done similar for others in Windows (which I DON'T want to do), and it IS pretty foolproof.
Thanks.
Have been fighting with this for almost a month.
Our PVR died, a Topfield 2400 series, and I have been thinking for ages that when such an event may happen, I would change tack, and create a full Media Centre, on a decent PC.
So obtained the PC, then had to decide what distro/programs to install.
So far I have been through Mint/striaght Ubuntu, and now Opensuse (my preferred distro anyway), but I am at the point now where I am going to chuck it all, and fork out for Windows, or even go back to a standalone PVR.
If this was just for me, I would have had it up and running weeks ago, but unfortunately the main user is my darling, and she is a bit more particular than I!
Have been concentrating on using MythTV backend as the PVR, and XBMC as the frontend. One of the main reasons for XBMC is that it does Aust. Catchup TV, that works well....
My issues:
1/ The remote. Found that, yes, got the remote working well, on Ubuntu, out of the box. This was using Lirc. All just seemed to come together. But... on opensuse (13.1, x64, KDE, fully patched) have tried both with and without Lirc, but can't seem to get anywhere near a properly configured remote. I am in a bit of a quandary, as to how the flow, for example, without Lirc, gets from the remote, through a config file (ir-keytable -r), and then forwarded to XBMC. Seem to be able to get some of the codes working, but others just elude me.. (sorry about the very technical talk!)
2/ My other issue is the whole putting the device to sleep/wake up for recording, thing.
Has anybody any suggestions for a relatively 'foolproof' fix for any/all these issues (nicely...)?
Sorry to bring this up, but previously have done similar for others in Windows (which I DON'T want to do), and it IS pretty foolproof.
Thanks.