Many users of Nokia770 claim that the device work unstable as LinuxMCE Orbiter. The Orbiter crashes very often, especially on Video screen. So, I decided to make a brief research to make device more stable. Here is a few suggestions.
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iMON VFD display is included in one of the most popular cases for HTPC – SilverStone. It’s supported by LCDProc. So, there is no any problem to install its driver under Linux. Moreover, MythTV – open source media center front-end allows to display on iMON VFD some useful information such channel number, movie name etc. For all who needs more Linux offers a flexible interface to the all devices in the system. As example, let’s see that Perl script which simulate graphical equalizer on iMON VFD display. I run it in my media center based on SilverStone LC20M. It works fine but unfortunately it doesn’t display real data. At least it may give you some ideas.
Two days I tried to understand why SlimServer doesn’t start under my Plutohome system. It worked fine till power was down during a couple hours four days ago. I saw in the log following output:
05 07/15/07 23:37:22.992 Trying to connect to SlimServer at address: 127.0.0.1:7890
10 07/15/07 23:37:22.993 We can't connect yet to the server. Waiting!
When I run the SlimServer manually I saw that it was killed by some reason:
dcerouter_1:/usr/pluto/servers/SlimServer# ./slimserver.pl --audiodir /home/public/data/audio -cliaddr 127.0.0.1 --cliport 7890 --d_protocol --d_cli --d_server --d_mdns
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6547 SlimServer OSDetect init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6549 SlimServer OS Specific init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6550 SlimServer saving pid file.
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6551 SlimServer settings effective user and group if requested...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6552 SlimServer settings init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.6759 SlimServer strings init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7731 SlimServer Setup init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7803 SlimServer setting language...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7805 SlimServer IR init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7851 SlimServer Buttons init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7867 SlimServer Graphics init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7914 Old SLIMP3 Protocol init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7922 Slimproto Init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7926 mDNS init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7927 mDNS: Initializing..
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7928 SlimServer HTTP init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7998 mDNS: Adding service: SlimServer - _http._tcp - TXT - 9000
2007-07-16 12:52:21.7999 mDNS: Adding service: SlimServer - _slimhttp._tcp - TXT - 9000
2007-07-16 12:52:21.8000 SlimServer CLI init...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.8003 mDNS: Adding service: SlimServer - _slimcli._tcp - TXT - 7890
2007-07-16 12:52:21.8004 mDNS startAdvertising...
2007-07-16 12:52:21.8006 mDNS: stopAdvertising()
Killed
Finally I found in the .slimserver.conf (it’s placed in the /root/bck/root/) that the cache directory is /root. I changed it to /var/cache and after that the SlimServer started successfully!
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Plutohome offers a way to trigger sunrise or sunset event and do specified action at that time. To use that feature you have to specify longitude and latitude on the Wizard :: Basic Info :: Installation Plutohome contains predefined values for many places. If you didn’t find your city you can choose some nearest place or type longitude and latitude directly. After that you have to add a new event handler – Wizard :: Events handler :: Respond to event. To create a new hadler you need just type appropriate description, choose Sunrise or Sunset even from the drop down list and press ‘Add’. After that you’ll able to attach one or more devices and choose a desired command for each of them.
