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  • OMV fix accidentally split mirror RAID

    I had setup a mirrored RAID in OMV and then the PC hardware, not the disks I should emphasize, failed and I needed to move the system disk and two data disks to other hardware. Because I decided to test each disk separately this broke the mirror and in OMV I now saw: Work off… read more…

    OMV fix accidentally split mirror RAID
  • Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager

    I am running MythTV on CentOS7 as per MythTV on CentOS 7 and it has been running fine and for no particular reason after cloning the VM it would not start FPM. When I cloned the VM I selected “I moved it” so it should have just worked. FPM is installed as a service and uses… read more…

    Failed to start The PHP FastCGI Process Manager
  • Converting FLAC to ALAC using xrecode

    I save all my files in FLAC but want to be able to play them on an iPhone with a loss less codec. With Apple devices the only option is ALAC, Apple Lossless Audio Codec. The process I use to archive my discs to FLAC is described in CD Archiving Hunting around I found the… read more…

    Converting FLAC to ALAC using xrecode
  • 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…

    Port-based VLAN on managed switch to ESXi
  • 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…

    Clear cache for add-ons in Kodi
  • 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…

    Cannot mount block device : Error mounting CentOS share on OMV
  • 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…

    Spark Sport – F1 Hyper Stimulator