[06:27] hi mythbuntu IRC channel- anybody home [06:34] okay throwing out a quick question if anyone could help Id be greatful- Ive got a frontend/backend mythbuntu server setup attached to a projecter for movie viewing in my house. I want to be able to remotely control it via laptop [06:35] in order to have it play music. However I want the sound to come out of the mythubuntu server itself- not from the remotly connecting laptop.. so myth frontend in that remote laptop isnt an option. [06:36] Is there any way to do something like this other than doing a remote desktop session? I was kind of hoping mymote etc would allow you to browse your music etc collection and have them play but you need to have a screen up (the projecter in this case) in order to navigate the pages [06:36] I want to navigate and play stuff on the server, from the servers speaker output etc, with a remote interface or laptop. [06:38] But I dont want to have to turn on the projector every time I want to play an audio file... I hope Im making sense this is kind of a convoluted question [06:38] anyway if anyone has any advice Id appreciate it and thanks for your help in advance [08:10] scott__: i've seen that the 0.25/master series has a frontend webinterface that can be enabled which allows you to control that. I'm not sure how much of that is in 0.24/fixes. [08:11] it's a good question for the main #mythtv-users channel as it's not ubuntu specific [08:16] Hi Dekarl ok Ill try throwing it out there to mythtv-users channel. Thanks for your help :-) [08:29] oh and, your best bet is when the americans are up, as that is where the devs are [11:29] scott__: the answer should be that the telnet interface is what you want. See http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Telnet The reason I say "should" though, is because its ability to control and interact with mythmusic is pretty limited. [11:29] [www.mythtv.org] Frontend control socket - MythTV Official Wiki [11:32] Looks like a a change in 0.25 should improve that limitation. [11:46] ok now i have a new problem after following the steps in the forum post for upgrade issues [11:46] i get a login screen up, but login fails - no error i just get bounced back to the login screen [11:46] after digging turns out this is logged to /var/log/auth.log [11:48] lightdm: pam_succeed_if(lightdm:auth): requirement "user ingroup nopasswdlogin" not met by user "mythtvuser" [11:52] has anyone tested vnc with 11.10 [11:53] cause that doesnt work atm either [11:53] it was configured with mcc before the upgrade, and if i manually start X and run mcc i can see it is still selected [11:56] hmm [11:56] i seem to have a /var/lib/lightdm/.Xauthority file [12:21] TandyUK, did you search on that auth.log message? There are a number of forum hits that I don't have time to read right now, as well as this one: http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=1117897 and probably others. [12:21] bbl [12:21] [arstechnica.com] Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Headaches - Ars Technica OpenForum [12:42] -rw------- 1 root root 15048 2011-10-14 01:22 .ICEauthority [12:42] theres the fking problem [12:42] need to remove that file as well as .Xauthority [15:04] TandyUK, did you run any graphical programs using sudo? [16:28] tgm4883: not to my knowledge but hey ho [16:29] having lirc problems now... my remote wasnt working so through mcc i set it to no additional remote, and it removed the config and lirc [16:29] now when i select lirc, it pops up as if it is going to install oething, then disappers [16:30] doing a manual install says well it used to lol [16:31] it was saying no package lirc but a couple of apt-get updates has fixed that [17:29] how can I add "-v jobqueue" to the mythbackend without hacking the upstart script? [17:37] dekarl: for sure you could rename mythbackend to something else (mythbackend.real) and then put a "script" (which could be just a single line) which calls mythbackend with the argument added (along with any arguments passed on the command line, using $* or $@ [17:38] BTW, thanks for helping to answer other questions here and elsewhere! [17:39] dekarl, hacking the upstart script shouldn't be too big a deal though, it's a really trivial script and if it changes on upgrade merging the change shouldn't be too much work (compared to old init scripts) [17:39] mrand: ok, I was looking for some MBE_FLAGS= configuration option [17:40] we haven't changed it in a LONG time anyhow [17:40] so i don't see it being something that you need to do on every apt-get upgrade or so [17:40] I was just wondering as the "-v this,that" is not so uncommon ;) === dekarl is now known as dekarl_zzz === Toast__ is now known as Toast [23:33] mythbuntu 11.10: can't play sound with aplay while mythfrontend is playing. Any thoughts ? [23:53] dscoular, sounds like expected behavior; no pulseaudio or anything being used? [23:53] especially if you are using digital audio, expected behavior [23:56] Hmm, yes, there's no pulseaudio... I had thought that alsa supported mixing via dmix... I can have 2 aplay samples play at the same time [23:56] alsa does support dmix, but i'm not sure all hardware supports that [23:57] If I have aplay playing simultaneously in two windows... why doesn't mythfrontend allow simultaneous play through dmix et al ? [23:57] not so sure then, that does sound a bit odd [23:58] I'm sure it used to work fine... as I have X10 motion detectors play a sample when someone is at the door and I'm it used to work while watching mythtv [23:58] s/ I'm it/I'm sure it/ [23:58] well if you don't find a solution, an alternative could be to have it send an OSD message [23:59] I'll pester the mythtv users list I guess [23:59] thanks for your help