Development Goals for LinuxMCE 0804

• Boot screen
  • Use LinuxMCE logo rather than Ubuntu
  • Use graphical boot on MD's, except on first setup boot.

• Power Savings (all devs)
  • Use tickless kernel
  • Run PowerTOP and eliminate worst offenders

• MythTV 0.21 integration (danielk)
  • Support multiple recording directories
  • Support MythTV as tv show and DVD player from within LMCE
  • Improve LiveTV integration
    • Add MythTV dialog awareness to MythTV_Player
    • Add MythTV signal monitor to MythTV_Player
  • Improve setup wizard
  • Add MythTV (non-livetv) button to Orbiters.
  • Make mythbackend bootscripts respond in standard ways to start/stop/restart without losing restart functionality.
  • Add support for HD-PVR 1212 [1]

• MAME integration (tschak)

• Insteon (petek,ddamron)
  • Integrate PLC/PLM support
  • Support 2-way comms for both controllers

• Z-Wave (hari)
  • Improve job handler - DONE
  • Support 2-way comms - DONE
  • Add setback schedule thermostats - DONE
  • Add multilevel sensor support - pending
  • More reliability and better device support - DONE

• IR (not yet assigned)
  • Support learning for all LIRC supported IR receivers
    • Write LIRC format to PRONTO format converter
  • Support blasting for all LIRC supported IR transmitters

• JavaMO (hari)
  • Fix reconnect after Orbiter reload - DONE
  • Better keypress handling (repeats..)
  • Add VIP Menu Containers (VMC) support for "out of house" mode
  • Implement pointer events - DONE
  • Automatic resizing of the Bluetooth_Dongle Orbiter
  • PnP installation

• I18N (michael)
  • UTF-8 DB conversion (Note: this will only be done if it can be done safely)

• Orbiter theming
  • Create LMCE Orbiter theme to replace basic

• Package cleanup (danielk)
  • Use standard packaging for all GPL licensed code so that it can be integrated into mainline Ubuntu
  • Use dpatch and clean tarballs for external code packaged by builder (mythtv,asterisk,etc.)

• PPPoE support out of the box (not yet assigned)
  • Lots of european customers use PPPoE to connect to the internet. Right now, they have to use external routers, and/or muck around with installing additional software.