Comments on: Seagate Dockstar http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/2010/08/07/seagate-dockstar/ James' Tech Blog at ultravstudios.com Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:04:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: james http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/2010/08/07/seagate-dockstar/comment-page-1/#comment-1190 james Sat, 27 Nov 2010 22:04:14 +0000 http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/?p=94#comment-1190 Wow, well Gentoo is awesome, but there are some tricks you can play with Debian. You can use ldd to see what mythtv-backend is linked to. Then just recursively figure out which libraries/binaries you really need. There are some articles on the Gentoo wiki about slimming Gentoo down. Furthermore, you could play some games with squashfs and loop-backs to shrink your install. And if it's going onto NAND then something like squashfs would be the best idea because it'll be read-only. Geez, this is turning into a post! I'll see if I can throw something together, but I'm not sure if there's a benefit to using the NAND if you're just going to hook up a HDD. Wow, well Gentoo is awesome, but there are some tricks you can play with Debian. You can use ldd to see what mythtv-backend is linked to. Then just recursively figure out which libraries/binaries you really need. There are some articles on the Gentoo wiki about slimming Gentoo down. Furthermore, you could play some games with squashfs and loop-backs to shrink your install. And if it’s going onto NAND then something like squashfs would be the best idea because it’ll be read-only. Geez, this is turning into a post! I’ll see if I can throw something together, but I’m not sure if there’s a benefit to using the NAND if you’re just going to hook up a HDD.

]]> By: stephan http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/2010/08/07/seagate-dockstar/comment-page-1/#comment-1180 stephan Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:57:01 +0000 http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/?p=94#comment-1180 Wow, and just here I was thinking of switching FROM em/debian to Gentoo. In part for MythTV. The installs balloon when you add any 'real' debian pkgs, the MythTV people seem displeased with the debian-multimedia version, and I'm displeased I needed 240mb of (much GUI and X) junk just to run MythTV-backend. My hope was that by using Gentoo on Dockstar, I could get the MythTV-backend + libqt/perl/apache deps under 100mb and run the backend totally off NAND, with just a real usb hard drive for saving tuner recordings. Am I dreaming? Will it never get that small? Or will I just never get it to compile? Sigh.. Wow, and just here I was thinking of switching FROM em/debian to Gentoo. In part for MythTV. The installs balloon when you add any ‘real’ debian pkgs, the MythTV people seem displeased with the debian-multimedia version, and I’m displeased I needed 240mb of (much GUI and X) junk just to run MythTV-backend.

My hope was that by using Gentoo on Dockstar, I could get the MythTV-backend + libqt/perl/apache deps under 100mb and run the backend totally off NAND, with just a real usb hard drive for saving tuner recordings. Am I dreaming? Will it never get that small? Or will I just never get it to compile? Sigh..

]]> By: ChrisC http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/2010/08/07/seagate-dockstar/comment-page-1/#comment-572 ChrisC Thu, 07 Oct 2010 12:52:42 +0000 http://blog.ultravstudios.com/james/?p=94#comment-572 James- From some of the digging around it looks like you had some success getting the HDHR to play nice with the Dockstar. I've been tinkering with both a MythTV backend and just using the hdhomerun_config util to try and save streams to the dockstar, but no luck so far. I'm able to set channels, and programs, but the stream save just give me an empty file. I thought it could be due to closed ports, but I didn't need to open up any other ports to get the discover and configure stuff to work. any tips/suggestions you have time to provide would be appreciated. Chris James-
From some of the digging around it looks like you had some success getting the HDHR to play nice with the Dockstar. I’ve been tinkering with both a MythTV backend and just using the hdhomerun_config util to try and save streams to the dockstar, but no luck so far. I’m able to set channels, and programs, but the stream save just give me an empty file. I thought it could be due to closed ports, but I didn’t need to open up any other ports to get the discover and configure stuff to work.

any tips/suggestions you have time to provide would be appreciated.
Chris

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