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Oct 10, 2009, 12:00 PM

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Irtrans is a lirc server...so any lirc client should work

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From: mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces [at] mythtv] On Behalf Of Johnny
Sent: Saturday, October 10, 2009 2:34 PM
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Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Hulu releases Hulu Desktop for Linux

> Sadly that may still not work in my case. I'm using IRTrans and it
> isn't using lirc the way it normally works. I added in that line just
> after the local REMOTE ARGS, but it still didn't help.
> Is there anything different I should be doing. I don't have any lirc
> device running. When I do a ps aux command, I just have:
> /usr/sbin/irserver -daemon -pidfile /var/run/irserver.pid -loglevel 2
> -logfile /var/log/irserver.log /dev/ttyUSB0

I am not familiar with IRTrans. Hulu only claims to have support for lirc.
So if you aren't even using lircd, I don't know that there is much you can
do. Maybe you should head over to Hulu support and see what they have to
say.
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Oct 10, 2009, 12:09 PM

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> Irtrans is a lirc server...so any lirc client should work

Then the trick is to figure out how to get it to do the equivalent of
the lircd --release, which from the lircd man page seems to
"auto-generate release events".
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Oct 10, 2009, 3:30 PM

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Greg Mischel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Johnny <jarpublic [at] gmail
> <mailto:jarpublic [at] gmail>> wrote:
>
> Also I thought I would mention to others who may be running
> Ubuntu/Mythbuntu, I did have to go into /etc/init.d/lirc and append
> "--release" onto the startup args for lircd. I did it by adding the
> following in the build_remote_args section:
>
> REMOTE_ARGS="--release $REMOTE_ARGS"
>
>
>
> Looking through my lirc file, I find three instances of REMOTE ARGS. I
> just added the --release in front of the third one, but whenever I use
> the button on my remote (say down), it keeps repeating that key from
> within the program. So in this case, it would bring sound all the way
> down. But I can't use any other remote button until I press a key or
> two on the keyboard. I then have the ability to use another button on
> my remote (which it will continue to run until I press a key or two on
> the keyboard). Any idea?
> REMOTE_ARGS="--device=$REMOTE_DEVICE $REMOTE_ARGS"
> REMOTE_ARGS="--driver=$REMOTE_DRIVER $REMOTE_ARGS"
> REMOTE_ARGS="--release $REMOTE_ARGS --output=/dev/lircd
> --listen"
> -Greg Smith
> Kansas CIty
The README for huludesktop mentions the following:

*** Hulu Desktop for Linux requires that lircd (>= 0.8.2) be run with
the -r
(--release) switch.

If you are using Fedora, you can add the line
LIRCD_OPTIONS="-r"
under the start() section of /etc/init.d/lirc

If you are using Ubuntu, you can add the line
REMOTE_LIRCD_ARGS="-r"
to /etc/lirc/hardware.conf

John
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Oct 10, 2009, 3:33 PM

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Greg Mischel Smith wrote:
> For anyone interested, I created a theme image for Hulu that goes
> along with the Blootube-wide theme.
> Feel free to download it: http://gregms.com/images/hulu-mythtv.png
>
> Used the following to add it into the menu:
> <button>
> <type>HULU</type>
> <text>Hulu</text>
> <action>EXEC /usr/bin/huludesktop</action>
> </button>
>
> Use the following in the blootube-wide/theme.xml file:
> <buttondef name="HULU">
> <image>text-blank.png</image>
> <watermarkimage>watermark/hulu.png</watermarkimage>
> <offset>0,0</offset>
> </buttondef>
>
> This is all on MythTV .21. I'm unsure what would change on .22.
> Haven't had a chance to really test everything out yet. Though I have
> noticed it will freeze part of the time on exiting. I'm unsure why
> that is.
>
> -Greg Smith
Thanks this works well. Now I have to get a more powerful system to use
Hulu which runs at 120+%

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Oct 11, 2009, 7:57 AM

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> Thanks this works well. Now I have to get a more powerful system to use
Hulu which runs at 120+%

Supposedly Flash 10.1 for linux will have "nvidia hardware acceleration
support", which many are interpreting as VDPAU. Would be nice given I just
converted all my frontends to Atom 230 + 9400M (Ion). Hulu Desktop runs like
a dog on this machine, even at the lowest video bitrate, and in a window.

jarod at wilsonet

Oct 11, 2009, 2:25 PM

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On Oct 10, 2009, at 6:30 PM, John Finlay wrote:

> Greg Mischel Smith wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Johnny <jarpublic [at] gmail <mailto:jarpublic [at] gmail
>> >> wrote:
>>
>> Also I thought I would mention to others who may be running
>> Ubuntu/Mythbuntu, I did have to go into /etc/init.d/lirc and
>> append
>> "--release" onto the startup args for lircd. I did it by adding
>> the
>> following in the build_remote_args section:
>>
>> REMOTE_ARGS="--release $REMOTE_ARGS"
>>
>>
>> Looking through my lirc file, I find three instances of REMOTE
>> ARGS. I just added the --release in front of the third one, but
>> whenever I use the button on my remote (say down), it keeps
>> repeating that key from within the program. So in this case, it
>> would bring sound all the way down. But I can't use any other
>> remote button until I press a key or two on the keyboard. I then
>> have the ability to use another button on my remote (which it will
>> continue to run until I press a key or two on the keyboard). Any
>> idea?
>> REMOTE_ARGS="--device=$REMOTE_DEVICE $REMOTE_ARGS"
>> REMOTE_ARGS="--driver=$REMOTE_DRIVER $REMOTE_ARGS"
>> REMOTE_ARGS="--release $REMOTE_ARGS --output=/dev/lircd
>> --listen"
>> -Greg Smith
>> Kansas CIty
> The README for huludesktop mentions the following:
>
> *** Hulu Desktop for Linux requires that lircd (>= 0.8.2) be run
> with the -r
> (--release) switch.
> If you are using Fedora, you can add the line
> LIRCD_OPTIONS="-r"
> under the start() section of /etc/init.d/lirc

...which is all kinds of wrong. You shouldn't be editing the
initscript. You should be editing /etc/sysconfig/lirc, where you'll
find (drumroll) LIRCD_OPTIONS="", which gets picked up by the
initscript via the part of the script that sources that file.

--
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Oct 11, 2009, 3:35 PM

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> ...which is all kinds of wrong. You shouldn't be editing the initscript. You
> should be editing /etc/sysconfig/lirc, where you'll find (drumroll)
> LIRCD_OPTIONS="", which gets picked up by the initscript via the part of the
> script that sources that file.

Is the sysconfig directory specific to Fedora? I don't have it on
Ubuntu. I removed my changes to /etc/init.d/lirc and went with the
recommended change to LIRCD_OPTIONS in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. Is
that the correct way to go with a Debian/Ubuntu system?
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Oct 11, 2009, 5:46 PM

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On Oct 11, 2009, at 6:35 PM, Johnny wrote:

>> ...which is all kinds of wrong. You shouldn't be editing the
>> initscript. You
>> should be editing /etc/sysconfig/lirc, where you'll find (drumroll)
>> LIRCD_OPTIONS="", which gets picked up by the initscript via the
>> part of the
>> script that sources that file.
>
> Is the sysconfig directory specific to Fedora? I don't have it on
> Ubuntu. I removed my changes to /etc/init.d/lirc and went with the
> recommended change to LIRCD_OPTIONS in /etc/lirc/hardware.conf. Is
> that the correct way to go with a Debian/Ubuntu system?

Yes, I believe that's equivalent for Debian and derivatives.

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Nov 4, 2009, 8:35 PM

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On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 10:00 PM, DISAFAN <disafan [at] aim> wrote:

>
>
> Since the format has changed, under MythTV 0.22, what is the easiest
> way/place to add the button in?
>
> Especially since themes under development keep changing which would cause
> me to lose that button?
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With the release of 0.22, I now find myself having to add Hulu-Desktop back
to the menu. While I give myself a crash course in this, has anyone already
done this and share what needs to be edited?

jarpublic at gmail

Nov 4, 2009, 8:39 PM

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> With the release of 0.22, I now find myself having to add Hulu-Desktop back
> to the menu.� While I give myself a crash course in this, has anyone already
> done this and share what needs to be edited?

I don't know if this will be true for everyone, but my custom buttons
like my Hulu button carried straight over and were still there when I
updated to .22.
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Nov 4, 2009, 11:49 PM

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On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Johnny <jarpublic [at] gmail> wrote:
>> With the release of 0.22, I now find myself having to add Hulu-Desktop back
>> to the menu.� While I give myself a crash course in this, has anyone already
>> done this and share what needs to be edited?
>
> I don't know if this will be true for everyone, but my custom buttons
> like my Hulu button carried straight over and were still there when I
> updated to .22.

I suppose it depends on *how* you upgraded. I had Mythbuntu and
upgraded to 9.10 (which has 0.22) and lost my custom menus.

Fixing those menus is way down on my todo list though...
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Nov 4, 2009, 11:54 PM

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2009/11/5 Robert Dyer <psybers [at] gmail>:
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Johnny <jarpublic [at] gmail> wrote:
>>> With the release of 0.22, I now find myself having to add Hulu-Desktop back
>>> to the menu.� While I give myself a crash course in this, has anyone already
>>> done this and share what needs to be edited?
>>
>> I don't know if this will be true for everyone, but my custom buttons
>> like my Hulu button carried straight over and were still there when I
>> updated to .22.
>
> I suppose it depends on *how* you upgraded. �I had Mythbuntu and
> upgraded to 9.10 (which has 0.22) and lost my custom menus.
>
> Fixing those menus is way down on my todo list though...

I am not Mythbuntu user but why don't you make changes in a xml which
you save in your ~/.mythtv/ folder? This should never be overwritten.
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:44 AM

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> I am not Mythbuntu user but why don't you make changes in a xml which
> you save in your ~/.mythtv/ folder? This should never be overwritten.

This is where I made the changes for my buttons. I have a library.xml
file that I just copied over from
/usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu/library.xml to my ~/.mythtv/
folder. Then I added the following button in:

<button>
<type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
<text>Hulu</text>
<action>EXEC huludesktop %F</action>
</button>
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:54 AM

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On 11/05/2009 03:23 AM, mythtv-users-request [at] mythtv wrote:
>> > With the release of 0.22, I now find myself having to add Hulu-Desktop back
>> > to the menu. While I give myself a crash course in this, has anyone already
>> > done this and share what needs to be edited?
>>
> I don't know if this will be true for everyone, but my custom buttons
> like my Hulu button carried straight over and were still there when I
> updated to .22.
>
Think it is worth proposing that a button for launching Hulu Desktop be
added into themes defaultly if Hulu is installed, like a plugin?

A lot of people asked for Hulu support in MythTV. This seems a simple
way of getting it.
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Nov 5, 2009, 6:59 AM

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Anyone have a good icon to use for hulu? Right now I'm not using
anything. Hulu is working pretty good for me though. Two things about
it that is a blessing and a curse. It's a binary executable (closed
source), don't know what it's doing. It's a binary executable that
seems to be statically linked or at linked with the most common
libraries, no compile, easy install, literally just copy the executable
to where you want it to be. Several other projects I'd like to try
could benifit from the latter. Boxee is one of them, that thing is a
bear to compile/install under anything other than ubuntu.

Johnny wrote:
>> I am not Mythbuntu user but why don't you make changes in a xml which
>> you save in your ~/.mythtv/ folder? This should never be overwritten.
>
> This is where I made the changes for my buttons. I have a library.xml
> file that I just copied over from
> /usr/share/mythtv/themes/defaultmenu/library.xml to my ~/.mythtv/
> folder. Then I added the following button in:
>
> <button>
> <type>TV_WATCH_RECORDINGS</type>
> <text>Hulu</text>
> <action>EXEC huludesktop %F</action>
> </button>
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