Home Theater PC
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This is a place to capture my notes about my Home Theater PC setup.


HW Specifications
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16 TB of Hard drive Space
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Graphics
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- Resolution
- Outputs (HDMI)
- Performance per watt
- Idle Power
- Vulkan Support

Initial Debian Install
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TBD


NODM And ICEWM
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Using Deb-Multimedia
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Installed Packages
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Session and Window Manager
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How to Setup MythTV
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Over the Air(OTA) the TV
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### Antenna selection
- https://www.youtube.com/c/antennaman
- https://www.instructables.com/Homemade-TV-antenna/

### 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


- https://www.antennaweb.org/

Cable TV
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How to setup HD Homerun
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1. An external tuner is less sensitive to RF interference from the PC
2. A dedicated 2-node Ethernet network prevents interruptions to streaming


Remote Control
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### 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
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- Leapcast


Music
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- Mythtv
- MPD

Ten Foot Interfaces
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- 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
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- Steam Big Picture Mode
- Debian Packages
- Emulators


Alternatives
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- Kodi
- Plex