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Re: MythTV remote control
by Brian May 09 Nov '19

09 Nov '19

John La Rooy <john.larooy(a)gmail.com> writes: > You can verify whether the remote is sending something by viewing the LED > via your phone camera when you press the buttons. Looking at the keyboard characters generated on another computer, when I press up, I can get one of three responses: * On first press: nothing. * ^[[A - as expected. * ^[[21~ - wtf? If I keep pressing up it often (but not always) toggles between ^[[A and ^[[21~ I wonder if flirc just cannot read my brand of remote reliably (old one from old Hauppauge TV card). Either that or it has some functionality (on first press do X on second press do Y) that I am not familiar with. -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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Re: MythTV remote control
by Brian May 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Rohan McLeod <rhn1(a)hotkey.net.au> writes: > It's definitely not a problem with dirty contacts on the remote ? > My Sony remote gradually "lost buttons" and I was going to replace it; > untill someone suggested pulling it apart and > cleaning the contacts with isopropyl alcohol....now it's like new ! Dad seems convinced that there is nothing wrong with the remote control units. I am not convinced; I might try to test this out some more tomorrow. Maybe (if I can) by pairing a known good spare TV controller. -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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Re: MythTV remote control
by Brian May 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

John La Rooy <john.larooy(a)gmail.com> writes: > I use an older version of this > > https://flirc.tv/more/flirc-usb > > I trained it to translate extra buttons on the TV remove into keystrokes, > but you could use any old remote control you have lying around. Unfortunately that is the very system I seem to be having problems with right now :-( (At least an older version) For some unknown reason it is very unresponsive. Hard to know if flirc is the problem or the older remote control, but we have tried two remote controls (of the same type) and they both have the same problem. Is like you need to press every button at least twice to get flirc to respond. I also tried the TV remote, through the TV and HDMI-CEC. That appeared to be good sometimes, unresponsive at other times. Pity, this would be the most convenient if I could get it working reliably. -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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MythTV remote control
by Tim Hamilton 08 Nov '19

08 Nov '19

Hi Brian, I use a combination of a HP USB(1) and a Logitech universal remote to control my Kodi instance, which runs on top of Ubuntu Mate 18.10. This works well but took a quite a lot of fiddling around with config files, choosing a suitable remote to emulate, customising the buttons and ensuring USB ports remained powered on in hibernate so key presses wake the box. I've also heard good things about Flirc(2) when combined with a universal remote. From reports Flirc is much easier to set up initially and is essentially plug and play, though I've not tested it myself. One other thing to note if you don't have a remote (though it sounds like you do) is Logitech remotes require Windows to run their (terrible) proprietary software, which can be done in a VM but not using Wine. Cheers Tim (1) https://www.amazon.com/HP-5188-1667-Center-Remote-Transmitter/dp/B000Z7XJME (2) https://flirc.tv/more/flirc-usb On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 12:00, <luv-main-request(a)luv.asn.au> wrote: > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:59:00 +1100 > From: Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> > To: Luv Main <luv-main(a)luv.asn.au> > Subject: MythTV remote control > Message-ID: <87r22k5g0b.fsf(a)silverfish.pri> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hello, > > Can anyone recommend a good remote control - ideally USB based - for a > MythTV system that doesn't have or need a TV controller card? > > The current one we have is driving us crazy because it often requires > multiple key presses for MythTV to finally respond. Where as the > keyboard response (or even Android remote) is very good. > > Regards > -- > Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> > https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/ > > > >

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Diomedis Spinellis: How to monitor MySQL / MariaDB query progress
by Rodney Brown 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20191103/ The progress indicator of MySQL or MariaDB long-running commands and queries is extremely extremely and frustratingly coarse. In an index update I’m running now it was stuck in the same state for more than three hours. Thankfully, the pmonitor <https://github.com/dspinellis/pmonitor> tool allows us to precisely monitor the progress of many commands. Here’s an example of its application on MariaDB. Adding an index on a GHTorrent <http://ghtorrent.org/> table with 6 billion records seemed to take forever, stuck in the “Enabling keys” state. ....

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MythTV remote control
by Brian May 07 Nov '19

07 Nov '19

Hello, Can anyone recommend a good remote control - ideally USB based - for a MythTV system that doesn't have or need a TV controller card? The current one we have is driving us crazy because it often requires multiple key presses for MythTV to finally respond. Where as the keyboard response (or even Android remote) is very good. Regards -- Brian May <brian(a)linuxpenguins.xyz> https://linuxpenguins.xyz/brian/

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CentOS - Logging DNS request from a wifi hotspot.
by Piers 03 Nov '19

03 Nov '19

Hi there, I have a fans PC that I am using as a wifi hospot that goes into my NBN connection. I haven't really set anything up, just selected create hotspot in Gnome and it just works. I would like to log all of the DNS queries. Is there a simple way of doing that or do I need to set up a connection from the ground up (eg: Squid, BIND, etc). Thanks Piers

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Re: best external cd rom
by Petr Baum 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:11:18 AM Rohan McLeod wrote: > Petr Baum wrote: > > On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:53:25 AM Rohan McLeod wrote: > >> Petr Baum via luv-main wrote: Rohan, > 1/ is the need for an "external" (typically USB) CD/DVD drive because > it needs to connect to a laptop ?; Yes, it is. I would probably copy recovered files to my internal (main) SSD drive first. > -the GUI files-utility correctly recognised a previously burnt M-Dsk as > 23GB (of a 25GB disk) >From what I came across reading of M-Disks is not a problem - but burning them may be. Somebody complained that his attempt to use M-Disk failed on Windows and it was suggested that he should use Nero. I would love to backup my historical photos on M-Disk as a second stage but I prefer to know the HW/SW combination which would be happy with my Ubuntu laptop before I go ahead with this project. Regards, Petr Baum -- <pb-luv(a)baum.com.au> Petr Baum, P.O.Box 2364, Rowville 3178 fax +61-3-97643342 This message was created in naturally virus-free operating system: Linux

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Re: best external cd rom
by Petr Baum 29 Oct '19

29 Oct '19

On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 10:53:25 AM Rohan McLeod wrote: > Petr Baum via luv-main wrote: Rohan, ... > > I have got a big box of about 25 years old CD ROM disks with scanned B/W > > 70-100 years old photo negatives. I was using copies from HDD for many > > years but failure of my server resulted in loss of significant part of > > files. I plan to make another set of copies from original CDs. ... > 3/ When I was investigating this issue I came to the conclusion that > "M-Disk"s were the best current solution; > this involves (a) buying an M-disk capable DVD R/W (most Blue-Ray > drives) (b) a supply of M-Disks (25- 100)GB ... That looks like an excellent suggestion! But... I tried to check Verbatim, who seems to be closest to the original developer Millenniata. They offer "External Slimline CD/DVD Writer" with notice "Software compatible with Windows operating systems only". That may mean included Nero burning SW only, but even that may be a show stopper - in discussion on another site somebody complained that his attempt to use M-Disk failed (on Win...) and it was suggested that he should use Nero. As Nero is included with Verbatim drive it may indicate that not all burning SW would be compatible. It would be nice if there would be some experience with using linux for burning of M-Disk. And I still have to find the best way how to recover data from my old and suspicious CDs... (M-Disk writer may be good enough for that too.) Regards, Petr Baum

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best external cd rom
by Petr Baum 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hi, I have got a big box of about 25 years old CD ROM disks with scanned B/W 70-100 years old photo negatives. I was using copies from HDD for many years but failure of my server resulted in loss of significant part of files. I plan to make another set of copies from original CDs. Some of these CDs had reading problems when new and it is unlikely that readability improved over time. I may use Roadkil's Unstoppable Copier and/or Ddrescue but as a first step I would like to get the best external CD ROM drive available for linux. Can you recommend me what to buy? Thanks, Petr Baum -- <pb-luv(a)baum.com.au> Petr Baum, P.O.Box 2364, Rowville 3178 fax +61-3-97643342 This message was created in naturally virus-free operating system: Linux

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