Digdilem

I use and love Munin. With it I can keep tabs on 28 of my servers and desktops and create some really pretty graphs.

However, when using a lot of machines it's a little bit clumsy to review the same information across a lot of machines. So I wrote a cgi script to let me review more.

This script will show all the machines' graphs for the same period (day, week, month or year) for whatever type you want. CPU, memory, disk usage, load, sensors - etc etc.

On doing a dist-upgrade of ubuntu this weekend, and after sorting out the million little problems that become apparent, one with myth-tv reared its head. The files weren't being renamed correctly.

If you don't know, myth-tv creates files like "5287_20100704195600.mpg". I like to have them named something "Build_A_New_Life_In_The_Country_-_2010-06-30,_1-56_PM_-_Untitled.mpg" so I can browse the pvr machine's network share and play the files from either laptop, my desktop and my Popcorn Hour plugged into the big telly.

I run the network between four physical rural sites. One is the main office, two satellite offices and one home worker (me!)

This has previous been kept up by using DG834's throughout each site, which each have a nice VPN pointy-clicky setup. Not knowing much about VPN this was a blessing.

Honestly, I do do other things with my life than play around with TV systems.

But... No sooner had I found as near to the perfect dvr software as I think exists (Myth-TV), my signal against starts deteriorating. I'm in a valley with nothing like a clear line of sight to any repeater TV aerial, so my signal bounces up the valley a few times and is very weak and echoey when it gets here. With the set top box also struggling to maintain signal and no analogue signal, I started to get more and more frustrated with freeview. (DVB-T)

root@pvr:/tv# apt-get remove vdr vdradmin
root@pvr:/tv# apt-get install mythtv mythweb

My continuing search for the "Ultimate DVB PVR" has got a whole lot closer. Finally I've gotten Myth installed.