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TriLUG meeting

Thursday, 12 February 2015

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Welcome

  • Phones and pagers on silent
  • Membership forms available
  • “TriChug” post meeting drinks
    • Ba Da Wings (Mission Valley)
    • Local beers on tap
    • Food

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Sponsorship and Donations

  • We appreciate your donations.
    • Please use the donation jar or talk to a steering committee member to donate
    • Credit cards welcome
  • Please ask your employer to sponsor.

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Your Steering Committee

steering@trilug.org

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Chair

Barry Peddycord III

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Vice Chair

Brian Gerard

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PR Officer

Bill Farrow

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Treasurer

Michael Hrivnak

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Webmaster

Jack Hill

http://trilug.org/anti-harassment

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Thank you

The following people have helped TriLUG:

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  • Pilot Server Backup testing
    • Jon Mainguy

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Community Announcements

  • Splat Space (a community hackerspace) has moved to a new location:
    • 800 N. Mangum St, Durham
    • http://splatspace.org/
  • Carolina Con 2015
    • March 20th-22nd 2015 in Raleigh NC
    • http://carolinacon.org/

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TriLUG Server Hack Night

Theme: Backups

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There are many projects, large and small, that we can use your skills on. Come help us tweak, tune, and update our LUG server.

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Thursday 19 February, 7pm - 9pm @ Webassign (NCSU)

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Have a Job / Need a Job

  • Anyone who knows of open positions.
  • Anyone who would like a new job.

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Tonight: Un-Meeting

Welcome to the Grand Experiment!

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  • Sign-up sheets for the topics in the lobby.
  • Join a panel, or volunteer to drive a topic!
  • Mark which topics you know about, and which ones you want to know more about (or both).
  • We'll use your votes (and number of panelists) to determine the order.

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And Now, Pizza

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Vim Plugins

Useful Vim Plugins and How To Manage Them

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Vim Plugins

Driver: Brian Gerard

Panel

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MythTV & XMBC

"Linux in your living room"

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MythTV & XMBC

Driver: Bill Farrow

Panel

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MythTV & XMBC

Kodi = Linux and Android Medial Player

(aka XBMC)

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MythTV & XMBC

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MythTV & XMBC

MythTV - Linux DVR

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MythTV & XMBC

MythTV

Guide

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MythTV & XMBC

Hardware:

  • Asus Chromebox m004u ($140)
    • 1.4 GHz Intel Celeron 2955U
    • 2GB DDR3 RAM
    • 16 GB SSD HDD
    • Intel HD graphics
    • USB 3.0
  • External HDD
  • HD HomeRun

(Dual Network Tuner)

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MythTV & XMBC

One Remote to Control them all

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MythTV & XMBC

One Remote to Control them all

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  • Linux Infrared Remote Control (lirc)
  • Media Center Edition (MCE)
    • USB
    • IR Blasters

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MythTV & XMBC

Linux Infrared Remote Control (lirc)

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  • Mythtv config (out of the box)
  • XBMC (Kodi) config (out of the box)
  • irexec - tie buttons to run custom scripts

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MythTV & XMBC

Samsung TV

  • Ex-Link (RS232)

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MythTV & XMBC

#!/bin/bash

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 9600

# Turn TV Off

echo -ne "\x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x01\xd5" > /dev/ttyUSB0

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# Last byte is a simple checksum

# Power Toggle - \x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\xD6�# Power On - \x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x02\xD4 �# Power Off - \x08\x22\x00\x00\x00\x01\xD5 �# Channel Up - \x08\x22\x03\x00\x01\x00\xD2 �# Channel Down - \x08\x22\x03\x00\x02\x00\xD1 �# Volume Up - \x08\x22\x01\x00\x01\x00\xD4 �# Volume Down - \x08\x22\x01\x00\x02\x00\xD3 �# Mute Toggle - \x08\x22\x02\x00\x00\x00\xD4

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MythTV & XMBC

MythTV

    • mythtv.org
    • mythbuntu.org

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XBMC (Kodi)

    • kodi.tv
    • openelec.tv

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Samsung TV Hacks

    • avsforum.com

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GitHub Flow

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GitHub Flow

Driver:

Panel

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Permissions and Filesystem Concepts

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Permissions and Filesystem Concepts

Driver: Brian Gerard

Panel

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