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Port-based VLAN on managed switch to ESXi
This exercise is driven by a need to connect my MythTV’s 3 HDHomeRun network tuners to my MythTV server. This is filled with various challenges:My MythTV runs in a VM on a VMware ESXi 6.0 server The ESXi server only has one network adaptor, NIC. Experience has shown that the HDHomeRuns are more reliable on… read more…
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Clear cache for add-ons in Kodi
I have been doing some work with MythTV and the Kodi MythTV addon. This has been around upgrading my MythTV from 0.25 to 0.29 which is quite a steps and I have had to go back and forth between versions. One of the biggest challenges is that I am using Kodi on Windows 10 as… read more…
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Cannot mount block device : Error mounting CentOS share on OMV
I needed to have a scheduled job to copy files from my MythTV server to my Open Media Vault server, but when I tried to mount the Samba/SMB share I got the following: root@nas2:/mnt# mount -t cifs \\\\192.168.202.44\\public /mnt/192.168.202.44 -o domain=CANTABRIAN,user=backup,pass=mypassword mount: block device \\192.168.202.44\public is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: cannot mount block device \\192.168.202.44\public… read more…
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Spark Sport – F1 Hyper Stimulator
Friday Spark Sport brought in the folks from Hyper Stimulator and put down a couple of their cars in the atrium at Spark City and let us have a go and boy was it fun. I really enjoyed it and those that tried had a great time also. In our case we were driving a… read more…
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Kapa Haka by Westmere Primary School
The kids from Westmere Primary School came to the Spark NZ atrium to perform a Kapa Haka. Originally intended for another audience which didn’t work out at the last minute they moved to Spark City in Auckland and boy they put on a great show. The costumes were fantastic, the singing was great and the… read more…
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MythTV on CentOS 7
MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed firstly in CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV then in CentOS 7 VM for WordPress… read more…
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Monitor all queries to MariaDB
Want to see what is being run against your MariaDB this is what to do. Firstly you need to enable logging to a file of all queries. You do this by running: SET GLOBAL general_log=1; SET GLOBAL general_log_file=’/var/opt/rh/rh-mariadb102/log/mariadb/maria_general.log’; Problem is you need special permissions and in practical terms the easiest way is to run it… read more…
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Installing Tomcat 9 behind Apache on CentOS 7
There are a number of posts on how to do this. I have created this post mostly for my own records so I know I will continue to have a record of what I have done. Setup Ensure you have at least JDK 8, I have the RPM “java-1.8.0-openjdk.x86_64” installed by this point. Create a… read more…
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CentOS 7 VM for WordPress and MythTV – Post install setup
In the post CentOS 7 base VM for WordPress and MythTV I described how to create a base CentOS 7 VM. This post describes follows on from that post and describes the post installation tasks to make the VM a good solid base for me to run WordPress or MythTV. When setting up a Linux server… read more…
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Rename a CentOS 7 host
Simple and official way to rename a host: hostnamectl set-hostname centos7-base.cantabrian Then restart the host. You should find the new name is reflected in the file: /etc/hostname Note: You only need to edit “/etc/resolv.conf ” if you are changing workgroups or domains. Get hostname details You can use hostnamectl to get other details by running:… read more…