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MythBuntu doesn’t support AutoIP

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

MythBuntu (and Ubuntu I assume) don’t support the AutoIP standard.
(Auto IP is basically a way for devices to form ad-hoc networks…if you don’t have a static IP, and are not assigned a dynamic IP via a dhcp server, you try out a random address in the 169.254.x.x network (255.255.0.0 netmask) and as long as ARP [...]

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Discovery Error 4001 : Silicon Dust HDHomeRun error

Sunday, December 20, 2009

I was in the process of changing out my MythTV backend machine, and when configuring the new machine, I took a look on SiliconDust’s website for a firmware update for my HDHomeRun (HDTV Network tuner box). I hadn’t updated it since late 2008, and sure enough, they were five or six firmware versions farther along. [...]

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Waiting for a HD HomeRun before starting the MythTV backend

Saturday, February 14, 2009

My mythtv box uses a SiliconDust HDHomeRun external network based tuner. Every so often (1 out of 5 boots) the network subsystem does not get started up before the mythtv-backend daemon. This causes an error where the mythtv-backend does not find the tuner, so it can not record any shows.

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