<div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Greetings Everyone!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">For our May 9th meeting we'll be welcoming Tim Spangler with his talk on DIY cable boxes. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">DIY Cable boxes with Raspberry Pi and a HD Homerun<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Still have FioS TV or Cable and can’t just cut the cord for a particular reason?  A simple Raspberry Pi and a HD Homerun, can drive Xbian and Kodi – allowing you to replace your current FioS / cable boxes with some simple off the shelf hardware and save you the equipment rental fees.  This presentation will cover why you might want to go to the effort, the hardware prerequisites, installation and configuration of Kodi on Xbian, and a brief overview of the HD Homerun app, and a few tips and tricks for an optimal experience.   <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">What about DVR you might ask?  DVR software that is available for a minimal yearly subscription for the adventurous that allows you to record TV to a NAS using the same general setup.  We will also cover a few trials and tribulations of attempting to setup a DVR writing to a NAS using the same equipment.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">About the Presenter:<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Tim Spangler is a Performance and Scalability Engineer for Oracle’s Cloud Monitoring system, OMC.  In his spare time he likes to use technology to solve various problems, such as how to save money on reoccurring equipment rental fees.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">We will be hosted at the UMBC Training Center, located at 6996 Columbia</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">Gateway Dr #100, Columbia, MD 21046. When you walk in  through the main</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">lobby make a right. We will be at the end of the hall in the last room on</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">the right. Our friends at Aplura will be providing the pizza and soda</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">starting at 6:30. The talk will start about 7pm.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">We are looking for speakers for the upcoming months. If you have a topic</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px">you would like to present on, please let me know and I'll get you scheduled.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="http://calug.org">http://calug.org</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://www.umbctraining.com/Home">https://www.umbctraining.com/Home</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://aplura.com">https://aplura.com</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px 0in;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><a href="https://hardenedbsd.org">https://hardenedbsd.org</a></span></font><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><u></u> </span></p></div><br><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Chuck Frain </div><div>GPG Key: B2420431</div><div><a href="http://www.chuckfrain.net" target="_blank">http://www.chuckfrain.net</a></div></div></div>
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