Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Posted on by David Vassallo

Scenario: When using Ubuntu Trusty (14.04.3LTS) Gephi 0.82 initializes but gets stuck on "Loading Cached Objects" Solution: The default Gephi startup bash script does not correctly initialize the JAVA path (it uses $jdkhome) The solution is simply to add the following to the beginning of the startup script (~/gephi/bin/gephi) export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default-java jdkhome=$JAVA_HOME The full script is … Continue reading Lessons learned: Gephi not starting up

Lessons Learned: Setting up TVHeadend for live TV streaming in Malta

Posted on by David Vassallo

I recently had the opportunity of setting up a system which captures free-to-air channels and streams them over IP for use by TV set-top boxes such as RaspBMC (or plain old XBMC). We decided on using the excellent TVHeadend. The system was made up of two components: A TVHeadend server. This was simply a desktop … Continue reading Lessons Learned: Setting up TVHeadend for live TV streaming in Malta