foreword

I’ve switched from a Raspberry Pi 1 Model B to a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B because my DVB USB device recordings on RPI1 were clipped.

I hope this changes using the much stronger RPI3.

My DVB USB device: Sundtek MediaTV Pro III

let’s start

preparations

Just download and flash the Raspbian LITE image from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y vim wget
date
sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata
date
sudo raspi-config
sudo reboot

installing MediaTV Pro III (skip this if you use another tv device)

wget http://www.sundtek.de/media/sundtek_netinst.sh && \
chmod 777 sundtek_netinst.sh && sudo ./sundtek_netinst.sh

cat << EOL | sudo tee /etc/sundtek.conf
use_hwpidfilter=on
device_attach=systemctl restart tvheadend
EOL

building TVHeadend from sources

since the official wiki building page seems a bit outdated here are my notes

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Hey there,

especially on mobile or all-in-one desktops like the iMac you might want to turn off the Display manually. For example if a long dd command is running.

To do so, you can use the small command xset with which you can control many display and energy saving tasks.

Switch Off

xset dpms force off

Switch On

xset dpms force on

or you could just move the mouse or press any key on the keyboard

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Hey there,

you might have found several Tutorials about how to configure Wake On WAN or WAN.

Unfortunatly most of them lack of a good description how to get it work over a router.

In my case I’m using a OpenWRT Router which I want to use to Wake my LAN PCs from the WAN side of my Network. Well after this tutorial you should be able to achieve this goal with any router ;)

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Foreword

As you may know, there are a lot Docker Containers out there, you’re able to use. You may have experienced some troubles with some of them.

I started creating my own Dockerfiles around March 2014.

Here are some Answers about my personal build Dockerfiles (but some of them were forked). You’ll recognize them if there start with marvambass/ (which means there are created by the user marvambass - which is me)

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Good morning

Today I’ll post you my experiences with Rasberry Pi, XBMC and my BOSE Companion 5 System.
Note: This Guide works also with other USB-Soundcard Devices!

Unfortunatly it didn’t run out of box. Okay to be honest, it did run under my openelec - but then it stopped working without a reason. This may be fixed at this time. You can try it. Especially with this new informations you gain on this Guide.

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