{"id":157,"date":"2007-04-25T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T21:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2007\/05\/17\/mythtv-case-sweetness\/"},"modified":"2021-10-20T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T01:01:51","slug":"mythtv-case-sweetness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2007\/mythtv-case-sweetness\/","title":{"rendered":"MythTV case sweetness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<center><a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/images\/news\/MythTV_LCD.jpg?ssl=1\"><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bitpost.com\/images\/news\/MythTV_LCD_closeup.jpg?ssl=1\"><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p>I took my time and tried to pick the best case I could for my MythTV box. I ended up picking an Antec case that included a beautiful chassis, great cooling features including separate airflow chambers and two large silent sidepanel fans, a generous mini-ATX form factor with just enough room for all the gear, silicone-cushioned drive mountings, and a couple cool bells and whistles &#8211; a large volume knob and LCD display panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have loved everything about the case, but I always figured it was going to take some serious hacking to get the volume knob and LCD panel to ever work under linux. When I finally sat down today to tackle the job, I found out there was lots of support! Apparently the knob\/LCD\/infrared port combination are a packaged product called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soundgraph.com\/Eng_\/Products\/imon25.aspx?topMenu=2&amp;subMenu=1&amp;leftMenu=25\">Soundgraph iMon<\/a>, and they have become a popular addition to many media center cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a little guidance, I have the front panel totally hooked up to MythTV now, which does a great job of filling the display with all kinds of juicy information: the currently playing song, the currently playing TV show or movie, the current recording, the time (when otherwise idle), etc. To get the volume knob working, looks like I&#8217;ll need to rig up lirc mo betta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my time and tried to pick the best case I could for my MythTV box. I ended up picking an Antec case that included a beautiful chassis, great cooling features including separate airflow chambers and two large silent sidepanel fans, a generous mini-ATX form factor with just enough room for all the gear, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,12,4],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-projects","category-mythtv","category-projects","tag-hardware"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-2x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions\/2470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}