Home Theater PC
This is a place to capture my notes about my Home Theater PC setup.
HW Specifications
16 TB of Hard drive Space
Graphics
- Resolution
- Outputs (HDMI)
- Performance per watt
- Idle Power
- Vulkan Support
Initial Debian Install
TBD
NODM And ICEWM
Using Deb-Multimedia
Installed Packages
Session and Window Manager
How to Setup MythTV
Over the Air(OTA) the TV
Antenna selection
Frequencies
| Band | Chan | Lo Freq | Hi Freq | Mid | 1/4 Wavelength |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VHF Low | 2-6 | 54 MHz | 88 MHz | 71 | 106 cm |
| VHF High | 7-13 | 174 MHz | 216 MHz | 195 | 38.4 cm |
| UHF | 14-36 | 470 MHz | 608 MHz | 539 | 13.9 cm |
106.3 cm ~ 3 * 35.4 cm ~ 7 * 15.2cm
Cable TV
How to setup HD Homerun
- An external tuner is less sensitive to RF interference from the PC
- A dedicated 2-node Ethernet network prevents interruptions to streaming
Remote Control
Microsoft MCE Remote
Logitech Harmony Hub
Custom Solution
Requirements
- RF remote and media keyboard (Bluetooth, Zig-bee, proprietary)
- Control IR devices
- Control Bluetooth devices
- LIRC
- script-able (python, LUA, JavaScript, bash)
- TV without unique input buttons.
- a way to re-sync state
Streaming from device
- Leapcast
Music
- Mythtv
- MPD
Ten Foot Interfaces
- YouTube Lean-back
- Disney plus
- CW seed
- CWTV
- Netflix
- Amazon Prime
- fireplace
- HBO
- Hulu
- Steam Big Picture Mode
- Odysee
- Web Browser
- Kiosk Mode
- WebTvRemote
- Interesting hobby project plugin for chrome and firefox
- designed for Twitch and YouTube
- Maybe can add Disney+
- https://github.com/maoserr/webtvremote
- https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/webtvremote/ocjgpmhfpnjinnonlaljhelgccinoome
- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-tv-remote/
Games
- Steam Big Picture Mode
- Debian Packages
- Emulators
Alternatives
- Kodi
- Plex