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

Android (SL4A) bluetooth to Linux (ubuntu)

Posted on by David Vassallo

As a follow up to my recent post I tried to program a very basic launcher. The idea is to pass commands from my android phone to my ubuntu laptop. The android side of things was already catered for by SL4A, I used a fixed version of their bluetooth_chat.py program that comes bundled with SL4A python. … Continue reading Android (SL4A) bluetooth to Linux (ubuntu)