SphinxTV
The purpose of this gem is to provide an installer/configurator to ease the setup of a Mac Mini as a media server. MythTV is the primary focus for this installer (MythTV + Big Cat in the OS makes for the Sphinx name.) Included in the modules is Shepherd, an Australian TV grabber which integrates well with MythTV and allows for a great free TV guide on the MythTV side of things.
At this point SphinxTV is regarded to be in extreme Alpha. It is on Github in the interests of the people that are alpha testing it for me. I intend to continue to develop and expand on this as time allows (this is a hobby project for me at this point.)
The goal is to have a website up and running in the coming months that will help detail the setup of a very functional home entertainment system using Mac Mini hardware.
Gem Installation
Easy:
sudo gem install sphinx_tv
Using SphinxTV
Prerequisites
You must have the Xcode command line tools installed to use SphinxTV. Xcode is freely available on the Mac App Store. The command line tools can be installed from the preferences in Xcode under the downloads tab.
Setup
sphinx_tv setup
Turn on the modules that you wish to install and configure.
Download
sphinx_tv download
Option step but will just do all the necessary downloading for the modules that have been configured in the setup stage.
Installation
sphinx_tv install
This runs through the install of each module. If the download wasn’t run seperately, then the downloads will be done on-demand at ths start of the module install.
Configuration
sphinx_tv configure
Post installation configuration.