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<div>== Airplayer ==<br />
[http://pwiddershoven.nl/blog/2011/01/05/airplayer.html Airplayer] is a Python app, which can be used to receive video and picture streams via Apple's AirPlay.<br />
<br />
It can be extended using MediaBackends. At the moment there are backends for XBMC, Plex and Boxee. <br />
<br />
To utilize this in LinuxMCE, there need to be an Airplayer device for each Media Director / Output zone.<br />
<br />
The source is available via the [https://github.com/PascalW/Airplayer.git GitHub].<br />
== Others ==<br />
Another bunch of software re AirPlay can be found [http://ericasadun.com/ftp/AirPlay/ here].<br />
<br />
== Proposed Design ==<br />
<br />
As contributed by --[[User:Tschak909|Tschak909]] 04:50, 10 February 2011 (CET)<br />
<br />
=== Goals ===<br />
<br />
* To allow an AirPlay compatible device to send a video to a LinuxMCE DCE controlled Media Player. <br />
* To allow AirPlay compatible devices to access LinuxMCE Media via Orbiter and native device means, to play the media on these devices as clients, with LinuxMCE being the Server.<br />
<br />
Thus being a bi-directional bridge.<br />
<br />
Due to the fact that we want to handle control in both directions, two distinct paths will be taken:<br />
<br />
=== Orbiter to Airplay Device ===<br />
<br />
This is fairly straightforward, using the existing [[Media Plugin]] architecture that has been developed. <br />
<br />
It is separated into two parts. The [[AirPlay PlugIn]] and an [[AirPlay Streamer]] device containing child [[AirPlay Player]] devices. This is very akin to the [[Slim Server Streamer]] and its equivalent [[SqueezeBox Player]] devices. <br />
<br />
See the appropriate sub pages for more in-depth information.<br />
<br />
=== Airplay Device to LinuxMCE Controlled Media Player ===<br />
<br />
This will be filled in, pending some more research. Particularly:<br />
<br />
* Does AirPlay facilitate the sharing of files? Or will this have to be piggybacked atop another existing client such as DAAP? Or Is this something else entirely?<br />
<br />
* the following is a link to a page listing the current Airplay compatible devices:<br />
http://obamapacman.com/2010/11/airplay-compatible-devices/</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=14538User:Bmac22008-06-28T06:23:54Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
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<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Barry McCormick<br />
Douglas Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102<br />
USA<br />
VOIP Phone: 801-438-3590<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
=Mobile Orbiters=<br />
<br />
*Nokia N800 tablet pc<br />
*Compaq Ipaq hx2755 color<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Network Layout=<br />
<br />
As a person who works a lot as a network person, my network often changes to suite the latest thing on my plate. But below is the base portion of my network, and what runs my systems. My network is only 10/100 at the moment, but I intend to upgrade to gigabit at first oportunity. The switch you choose makes ALL the difference in the sound quality of your calls. I had to remove a fairly nice managed 3Com switch from my network and replace it with an an ancient Cisco 300FastHub. That cleared all the echo of my phones.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[[Image:Network flow.png]]</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=Cisco_7970&diff=14537Cisco 79702008-06-28T04:45:30Z<p>Bmac2: /* Download */</p>
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<div>[[Category: Hardware]]<br />
[[Category: Phones]]<br />
[[Category: Orbiters]]<br />
<br />
== Preface ==<br />
[[Image:Cisco7909.JPG]]<br />
<br />
LinuxMCE allows the use of many devices as [[Orbiters]]. One of them is the [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/ps5440/index.html CISCO 7970]. You can use it to control your home as well as to make calls.<br />
<br />
To add a new CISCO 7970 phone as an Orbiter follow these simple instructions (from information in the [http://forum.linuxmce.org/ LinuxMCE support forum]).<br />
<br />
== Preparation ==<br />
<br />
CISCO 7970 phone is plug-in-play device; LinuxMCE adds it automatically when it is plugged into the network. But first, we have to make some preparations. Run an Orbiter. Be sure that no others tasks are running.<br />
Check the DHCP setting of your phone. It should be something like that: "get IP via DHCP and no alternative servers".<br />
Check the range of MAC addresses:<br />
#Go to Advanced --> Configuration --> Device Template.<br />
#Chose manufacturer CISCO. You should see in the right list at least two models: 7970 and 7960.<br />
#Press the button 'Show model'.<br />
#On the opened window check 'Range MAC addresses'. The range contains two big decimal digits. To get correct range for your phone first see its MAC address. A MAC address is six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by hyphens (<strong>-</strong>) or colons (<strong>:</strong>). The first three groups identify a maker. You leave them and fill the rest by 0 and F. For example, if MAC is <strong>00:16:78:CD:01:D8</strong> its range will be <strong>00:16:78:00:00:00</strong> - <strong>00:16:78:FF:FF:FF</strong>. After that you should convert those two values into LinuxMCE representation. To do that run a script <strong>/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac</strong> and pass the hexadecimal values as parameters:<br />
/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac 00:16:78:00:00:00<br />
/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac 00:16:78:FF:FF:FF<br />
:As result you will get two big decimal digits. Add them to the phone template and store.<br />
If you have problems with phone installation, it may be related to firmware. The phone should have the latest firmware upgrade. (I didn't have any problem with existing firmware on my CISCO 7970, though).<br />
<br />
Note for '''CISCO 7960 SIP''' users: if your phone fails to register with asterisk then edit /tftpboot/SIPDefault.cnf and append <br />
nat_enable: 1<br />
<br />
== Installation ==<br />
<br />
#Plug the phone power and network cable. Note if you have two network cards on your core you should plug network cable in the right switch.<br />
#During boot of the phone after 2-3 minutes you should see on the Orbiter a message about new device with your phone MAC address was detected. You should click by caption "Cisco 7970" below that.<br />
#After that the phone should be registered with asterisk and you can see a normal CISCO screen. <br />
#However, it'll take another 2-3 minutes to generate a new Orbiter for CISCO7970. <br />
#When this operation finishes you'll see a message on the Orbiter screen. Make a quick reload of router (Wizard -- Reboot -- Quick Reload Router. I also rebooted CISCO 7970 because I didn't see anything in the menu Services).<br />
#Now go to menu Services on CISCO 7970 and chose Orbiter.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
*<u>Problem:</u> Phone boots successfully but there is no any message on the Orbiter's screen.<br />
*<u>Solution:</u> If the message doesn't appear check MAC addresses range.<br />
<br />
== Some useful tips ==<br />
*To reset a Network configuration of CISCO79xx go to menu 'Network Setting' and press the following sequence of buttons: <br />
**#**<br />
*To check network communications between CISCO7970 and CORE run tcpdump on the CORE:<br />
tcpdump -i eth1 [CISCO7970 IP Address]<br />
or to see detailed packets information:<br />
tcpdump -i -vv eth1 [CISCO7970 IP Address]<br />
<br />
Email suggestions to: stepanov.michael [at] gmail [dot] com or leave a comment.<br />
<br />
==Add Directory buttons to Cisco IP Phone==<br />
<br />
=== Download ===<br />
Download the files here: [http://www.unit-e.cc/~tschak/Directory.zip http://www.unit-e.cc/~tschak/Directory.zip]<br />
<br />
=== Synopsis ===<br />
<br />
This set of files adds a working Directory for your Cisco IP phone. It has been tested on my Cisco 7970 phone, but does not use any additional features, so it should work on any of the other Cisco IP phones that support XML services, such as the Cisco 7960. <br />
<br />
It adds the following Features:<br />
<br />
* Directory button now works!<br />
* Works with Contacts from the Pluto phone directory<br />
* Paginates them based on # of entries in phone book<br />
* Shows the phone type.<br />
<br />
=== Installing this Patch ===<br />
<br />
* Unpack the files to the pluto-admin directory. (/var/www/pluto-admin/)<br />
* edit the file /tftpboot/SEPDefault7970.cnf.xml (it just needs to be the default xml for your cisco phone, adjust as needed.)<br />
** Find the <directoryURL></directoryURL> tags, and place '''http://192.168.80.1/pluto-admin/directory.php''' between them.<br />
* Reboot the phone by pressing the settings button, and pressing the following button sequence '''**#**'''<br />
<br />
Once the phone boots, try the directory by pressing the Directory button!<br />
<br />
If there are any problems, let me know --[[User:Tschak909|Tschak909]] ( thom.cherryhomes (at) gmail (dot) com ).</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=Cisco_7970&diff=14536Cisco 79702008-06-28T04:44:55Z<p>Bmac2: /* Download */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category: Hardware]]<br />
[[Category: Phones]]<br />
[[Category: Orbiters]]<br />
<br />
== Preface ==<br />
[[Image:Cisco7909.JPG]]<br />
<br />
LinuxMCE allows the use of many devices as [[Orbiters]]. One of them is the [http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/ps5440/index.html CISCO 7970]. You can use it to control your home as well as to make calls.<br />
<br />
To add a new CISCO 7970 phone as an Orbiter follow these simple instructions (from information in the [http://forum.linuxmce.org/ LinuxMCE support forum]).<br />
<br />
== Preparation ==<br />
<br />
CISCO 7970 phone is plug-in-play device; LinuxMCE adds it automatically when it is plugged into the network. But first, we have to make some preparations. Run an Orbiter. Be sure that no others tasks are running.<br />
Check the DHCP setting of your phone. It should be something like that: "get IP via DHCP and no alternative servers".<br />
Check the range of MAC addresses:<br />
#Go to Advanced --> Configuration --> Device Template.<br />
#Chose manufacturer CISCO. You should see in the right list at least two models: 7970 and 7960.<br />
#Press the button 'Show model'.<br />
#On the opened window check 'Range MAC addresses'. The range contains two big decimal digits. To get correct range for your phone first see its MAC address. A MAC address is six groups of two hexadecimal digits, separated by hyphens (<strong>-</strong>) or colons (<strong>:</strong>). The first three groups identify a maker. You leave them and fill the rest by 0 and F. For example, if MAC is <strong>00:16:78:CD:01:D8</strong> its range will be <strong>00:16:78:00:00:00</strong> - <strong>00:16:78:FF:FF:FF</strong>. After that you should convert those two values into LinuxMCE representation. To do that run a script <strong>/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac</strong> and pass the hexadecimal values as parameters:<br />
/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac 00:16:78:00:00:00<br />
/usr/pluto/bin/convert_mac 00:16:78:FF:FF:FF<br />
:As result you will get two big decimal digits. Add them to the phone template and store.<br />
If you have problems with phone installation, it may be related to firmware. The phone should have the latest firmware upgrade. (I didn't have any problem with existing firmware on my CISCO 7970, though).<br />
<br />
Note for '''CISCO 7960 SIP''' users: if your phone fails to register with asterisk then edit /tftpboot/SIPDefault.cnf and append <br />
nat_enable: 1<br />
<br />
== Installation ==<br />
<br />
#Plug the phone power and network cable. Note if you have two network cards on your core you should plug network cable in the right switch.<br />
#During boot of the phone after 2-3 minutes you should see on the Orbiter a message about new device with your phone MAC address was detected. You should click by caption "Cisco 7970" below that.<br />
#After that the phone should be registered with asterisk and you can see a normal CISCO screen. <br />
#However, it'll take another 2-3 minutes to generate a new Orbiter for CISCO7970. <br />
#When this operation finishes you'll see a message on the Orbiter screen. Make a quick reload of router (Wizard -- Reboot -- Quick Reload Router. I also rebooted CISCO 7970 because I didn't see anything in the menu Services).<br />
#Now go to menu Services on CISCO 7970 and chose Orbiter.<br />
<br />
== Troubleshooting ==<br />
*<u>Problem:</u> Phone boots successfully but there is no any message on the Orbiter's screen.<br />
*<u>Solution:</u> If the message doesn't appear check MAC addresses range.<br />
<br />
== Some useful tips ==<br />
*To reset a Network configuration of CISCO79xx go to menu 'Network Setting' and press the following sequence of buttons: <br />
**#**<br />
*To check network communications between CISCO7970 and CORE run tcpdump on the CORE:<br />
tcpdump -i eth1 [CISCO7970 IP Address]<br />
or to see detailed packets information:<br />
tcpdump -i -vv eth1 [CISCO7970 IP Address]<br />
<br />
Email suggestions to: stepanov.michael [at] gmail [dot] com or leave a comment.<br />
<br />
==Add Directory buttons to Cisco IP Phone==<br />
<br />
=== Download ===<br />
Download the files here: [http://www.unit-e.cc/~tschak/Directory.zip http://www.unit-e.cc/~thom/Directory.zip]<br />
<br />
=== Synopsis ===<br />
<br />
This set of files adds a working Directory for your Cisco IP phone. It has been tested on my Cisco 7970 phone, but does not use any additional features, so it should work on any of the other Cisco IP phones that support XML services, such as the Cisco 7960. <br />
<br />
It adds the following Features:<br />
<br />
* Directory button now works!<br />
* Works with Contacts from the Pluto phone directory<br />
* Paginates them based on # of entries in phone book<br />
* Shows the phone type.<br />
<br />
=== Installing this Patch ===<br />
<br />
* Unpack the files to the pluto-admin directory. (/var/www/pluto-admin/)<br />
* edit the file /tftpboot/SEPDefault7970.cnf.xml (it just needs to be the default xml for your cisco phone, adjust as needed.)<br />
** Find the <directoryURL></directoryURL> tags, and place '''http://192.168.80.1/pluto-admin/directory.php''' between them.<br />
* Reboot the phone by pressing the settings button, and pressing the following button sequence '''**#**'''<br />
<br />
Once the phone boots, try the directory by pressing the Directory button!<br />
<br />
If there are any problems, let me know --[[User:Tschak909|Tschak909]] ( thom.cherryhomes (at) gmail (dot) com ).</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=File:Bmac2.jpg&diff=13872File:Bmac2.jpg2008-06-16T21:55:49Z<p>Bmac2: uploaded a new version of "Image:Bmac2.jpg"</p>
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<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Barry McCormick<br />
Douglas Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102<br />
USA<br />
VOIP Phone: 801-438-3590<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Network Layout=<br />
<br />
As a person who works a lot as a network person, my network often changes to suite the latest thing on my plate. But below is the base portion of my network, and what runs my systems. My network is only 10/100 at the moment, but I intend to upgrade to gigabit at first oportunity. The switch you choose makes ALL the difference in the sound quality of your calls. I had to remove a fairly nice managed 3Com switch from my network and replace it with an an ancient Cisco 300FastHub. That cleared all the echo of my phones.<br />
<br />
<br />
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[[Image:Network flow.png]]</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13870User:Bmac22008-06-16T21:41:35Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Barry McCormick<br />
Douglas Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102<br />
USA<br />
VOIP Phone: 801-438-3590<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Network Layout=<br />
<br />
[[Image:Network-flow.jpg]]</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=File:Network_flow.png&diff=13869File:Network flow.png2008-06-16T21:39:36Z<p>Bmac2: uploaded a new version of "Image:Network flow.png"</p>
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<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Barry McCormick<br />
Douglas Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102<br />
USA<br />
VOIP Phone: 801-438-3590<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Network Layout=</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13858User:Bmac22008-06-16T18:29:32Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
Barry McCormick<br />
Douglas Street<br />
Salt Lake City, Utah 84102<br />
USA<br />
VOIP Phone: 801-438-3590<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13853User:Bmac22008-06-16T15:26:15Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
* ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
*IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
**''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
*SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
*SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
*Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
*no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
*An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a "silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
*Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
*Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
*Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
*Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
*Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
*ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
*Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
*1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
*1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
*2 PCI slots<br />
*built in gigabit network card<br />
*2 IDE channels<br />
*4 sata ports<br />
*built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
*AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
*4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
*Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
*NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
*DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
*Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
*WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
*[[Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-150_MCE]] (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
*DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
*[[USB_UIRT]] with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
*CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
*15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
*Motherboard - ???/<br />
*Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX hone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
==VOIP Provider== <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users in other countries.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7970 Phone==<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7960 Phone==<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
==Cisco 7912 Phone==<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
==Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)== <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
==Analog Cordless Phones==<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
==Fax Machine==<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13843User:Bmac22008-06-16T07:25:15Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, <br />
use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13842User:Bmac22008-06-16T07:21:20Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13841User:Bmac22008-06-16T07:16:58Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and <br />
generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadillac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13840User:Bmac22008-06-16T07:15:42Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and <br />
generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The '''cadilac''' of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed ) protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage, etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13838User:Bmac22008-06-16T07:00:02Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
[[Image:Bmac2.jpg]]<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and <br />
generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=File:Bmac2.jpg&diff=13837File:Bmac2.jpg2008-06-16T06:58:18Z<p>Bmac2: uploaded a new version of "Image:Bmac2.jpg"</p>
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<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and <br />
generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Kitchen Media Director=<br />
<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????<br />
<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13625User:Bmac22008-06-15T06:22:39Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives'''<br />
NONE - this system network boots using PXE, so no drives needed, which makes it quieter, use less power, and <br />
generate less heat<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13624User:Bmac22008-06-15T06:20:31Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives''' - NONE<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13623User:Bmac22008-06-15T06:18:40Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
'''Projector'''<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
Generic PC built to be the MD<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
Nvidia 7200 PCI card<br />
<br />
'''Hard drives''' - NONE<br />
<br />
'''DVD Drive'''<br />
DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
'''Remote'''<br />
WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
'''TV Capture Card'''<br />
Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
'''Satellite Box'''<br />
DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
'''IR Control'''<br />
USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
'''TV'''<br />
CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
'''Stereo Reciever'''<br />
15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
One of the MAJOR subsystems, and in my opinion, one of the most powerful and useful subsystems in LMCE is the<br />
Asterisk/FreePBX phone system. It allows you to do cool things like assign extensions to family members, give<br />
everyone in your family their own mailbox, etc. Connected to a VOIP provider, your phone system can now do<br />
things that it never could before. Forget the phone company and run your own phones the way you want them to run.<br />
<br />
'''VOIP Provider''' <br />
Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7970 Phone'''<br />
The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7960 Phone'''<br />
Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Cisco 7912 Phone'''<br />
A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
'''Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA)''' <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
'''Analog Cordless Phones'''<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
'''Fax Machine'''<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13620User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:58:02Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider <br />
-Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13618User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:54:45Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[Category:User Setups]]<br />
[[Category:VOIP Setups]]<br />
[[Category:Standard Definition Setups]]<br />
<br />
My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
'''Motherboard'''<br />
<br />
ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
'''Processor'''<br />
AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
'''Memory'''<br />
4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
'''Video Card'''<br />
GeFORCE Nvidia 8600GT PCI-E 16x with 512 Meg of Memory<br />
<br />
'''Hard Drives''' <br />
IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
''Software Raid managed by LMCE''<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
'''DVD drive'''<br />
Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
'''Media card reader'''<br />
no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
'''Case'''<br />
An old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
'''Mouse and keyboard'''<br />
Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
'''Serial Port card'''<br />
The new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
<br />
'''Bluetooth'''<br />
A cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider <br />
-Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) <br />
I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
Internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones<br />
My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. These along with all the analog phones are set up on a seperate extension. <br />
While you can't call a specific one of them, you can call the analog extension and ring them seperately. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine<br />
YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13611User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:44:11Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram.<br />
<br />
Hard Drives- IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
Software Raid managed by LMCE<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
DVD drive - Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
Media card reader - no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
Case - old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
Mouse and keyboard - Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
Serial Port card - the new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
Bluetooth - a cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider - Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) - I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones - My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine - YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13610User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:42:01Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram.<br />
<br />
Hard Drives- IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
Software Raid managed by LMCE<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
DVD drive - Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
Media card reader - no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
Case - old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
Mouse and keyboard - Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
Serial Port card - the new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
Bluetooth - a cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider - Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) - I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones - My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine - YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun<br />
to do just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13609User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:40:13Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram.<br />
<br />
Hard Drives- IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
Software Raid managed by LMCE<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
DVD drive - Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
Media card reader - no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
Case - old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
Mouse and keyboard - Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
Serial Port card - the new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
Bluetooth - a cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 5600+ retail with AMD fan<br />
<br />
Memory - 4 GIG DDR 800 ram<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider - Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) - I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones - My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine - YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do <br />
just to say I did.<br />
<br />
<br />
=Master Bedroom Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ???/<br />
<br />
Processor - ?????</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13608User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:37:35Z<p>Bmac2: </p>
<hr />
<div>My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
Hard Drives- IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
Software Raid managed by LMCE<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
DVD drive - Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
Media card reader - no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
Case - old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
Mouse and keyboard - Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
Serial Port card - the new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
Bluetooth - a cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.<br />
<br />
=Phone System=<br />
<br />
VOIP Provider - Broadvoice with a second number and the international package so I can place obscene calls to lmce users<br />
in other countries.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7970 Phone - The cadilac of phones. These have the color touch screen, can act as an orbiter (remote control) and handle <br />
handle multiple extension, custom wallpapers, custom rings, etc. Very much plug and play when you follow the<br />
wiki page on this phone set up by TSCHAK. Mine is running the Cisco SCCP ( or skinny as it is nicknamed )<br />
protocol. If you can catch one of these on ebay at a reasonable price, get it. They are a very nice phone<br />
with built in speakerphone, headset jacks, hold, transfer, etc.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7960 Phone - Just one step down from the 7970, but can be bought at a much cheaper prices used on places such as ebay. <br />
This model has 6 phone line/extension capability, but no color and no touchscreen. It is a very nice solid<br />
phone, like most Cisco products. Mine is running SCCP and was set up using the directions for the 7970, which<br />
defaults to the sccp protocol.<br />
<br />
Cisco 7912 PHone - A single line phone with no fancy features like speakerphone, multiple extension, but a good solid phone with<br />
a very clean looking silver top and a nice quality small monochrome display on it. I picked mine up for<br />
around $20 + shipping on ebay. Like all my phones, it is running SCCP protocol.<br />
<br />
Analog Telephone Adapter (ATA) - I bought an unlocked linksys PAP2T-NA adapter. Make sure if you are buying an adapter off the<br />
internet that the model has the -NA on it. Any model without the -NA is locked to a provider like Vonage,<br />
etc. While they CAN be unlocked, it is a very painful process, and does not always work, depending on a ton<br />
of factors when you start hacking them. My advice, if you have one, search the internet and play, but buy<br />
yourself one that is unlocked by design and use it. Even if you unlock one of the vonage ones, they can still<br />
possibly give you trouble. I think mine cost me like $48 or so online. This adapter is wired to the phone<br />
wires (cat 3 type original phone lines) that are running through the house. So we can plug in any standard <br />
phone device, and can plug the satellite dish STBs to the phone line for programming updates. The second port<br />
of the ATA is set up as a fax line to receive faxes, or send them if needed. I changed the default fax line<br />
in LMCE to aim at this extension. <br />
<br />
Analog Cordless Phones - My wife has a set of the uniden cordless phones that has the base one that plugs into an analog phone<br />
line and the other 2 handsets attach to it wirelessly. The entire reason I put the ATA in was so she could<br />
keep those phones and use them. <br />
<br />
Fax Machine - YES I know it is old school, but I have it, and an analog port, so what the hell. It is a 8 or 9 year old SHARP<br />
UX-510 Plain paper fax. My plans are to set up a more sophisticated fax system with lmce, but, this was fun to do <br />
just to say I did.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=User:Bmac2&diff=13607User:Bmac22008-06-15T05:15:48Z<p>Bmac2: New page: My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac ...</p>
<hr />
<div>My username is bmac2, I am not a JR, or anything like that, on an old bbs in the late 80s early 90s one bbs required there to be at least one number on your username, and i was using bmac (short for Barry McCormick) and I added a 2 to it. Been using that name almost exclusively online since.<br />
<br />
I was born in Alabama and have both my BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alabama. I lived in Texas for about 10 years total, 4 years in the army at Ft. Hood, over a year in Austin, then a good 3 in Houston. I then lived New Orleans from 1997 until 2001 when I moved to Salt Lake City, Utah for family reasons.<br />
<br />
My LMCE setup is currently as detailed below. It is far from being complete, but I am being hounded by our resident wiki nazi ( g you KNOW who you are!!!) so here goes.<br />
<br />
=Core/Hybrid=<br />
<br />
I use a hybrid core in my setup. I have my office/workspace/media room in the basement of my house. Since my core is down here it makes more sense for me to use it as a hybrid and not have another computer running.<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Processor - AMD 4600+ Retail box processor with AMD branded CPU Fan<br />
<br />
Hard Drives- IDE - Maxtor 300 GB hard drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 1TB green power hard drive<br />
Software Raid managed by LMCE<br />
SATA - Seagate 300 GB drive<br />
SATA - Western Digital 160 GB drive<br />
<br />
DVD drive - Dual layer Memorex DVD/CD/CDR reader/writer<br />
<br />
Media card reader - no name media reader that reads 6 types of media cards. Fits in a 5 1/4 drive bay<br />
<br />
Case - old case I have had for a while, nothing special except I put a brand new "quiet" power supply in it for the new<br />
motherboard. The power supply is a CG Super Power brand that I got at a local store. 480 Watt Supply with a <br />
"silent fan". The size was based on my running the 4600+ processor and 6 hard drives, plus dvd, etc.<br />
<br />
Mouse and keyboard - Logitech wireless ergonomic mouse and a generic HP keyboard. My core sits next to my desk, so <br />
I don't uses any fancy remotes for it, just a mouse and a keyboard.<br />
<br />
Serial Port card - the new motherboards do NOT have serial ports, so I bought a PCI-E X1 slot serial port card. I need <br />
two serial ports, one for my projector control via serial interface, the second to try to get a vfd <br />
display working on the system.<br />
Bluetooth - a cheap targus generic bluetooth dongle (avoid these, at least get a trendnet or better!!!!)<br />
<br />
<br />
=Projector=<br />
<br />
<br />
Optoma DLP projector Model EP-721<br />
Native resolution 1024x768, but capable of1080i.<br />
Projector actually made by a division of Epson. Nice projector for under $500.<br />
<br />
=Den Media Director=<br />
<br />
Motherboard - ABIT AN-M2 ver 2.0 Socket AM2 940 Processor with 2000MT/s system bus<br />
Micro-ATX form factor (244mm x 244mm)<br />
1x PCI-E X16 slot <br />
1x PCI-E X1 slot <br />
2 PCI slots<br />
built in gigabit network card<br />
2 IDE channels<br />
4 sata ports<br />
built in sound card with digital out<br />
<br />
Hard drives - NONE<br />
<br />
DVD Drive - DVD reader/writer<br />
<br />
Bluetooth - Trendnet Bluetooth dongle<br />
<br />
Remote - WII controller set up as a remote<br />
<br />
TV Capture - Hauppauge PVR-150 (non mce and non remote version)<br />
<br />
Satellite Box - DirecTV Dual tuner pvr Satellite box, model R-15<br />
<br />
IR Control - USB-UIRT with a set of IR extender dongles<br />
<br />
TV - CRAPPY Zenith 36 inch TUBE tv. Hope to make it go away soon.<br />
<br />
Stereo Reciever - 15 year old low end Onkyo receiver.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=DVD_Install_And_Custom_Partitions&diff=13159DVD Install And Custom Partitions2008-06-04T15:28:45Z<p>Bmac2: /* Marking The HDD As A LinuxMCE Installation */</p>
<hr />
<div>Usually, a DVD install will create a standard partitioning schema, where the harddisk is split into 3 areas<br />
sda1 = / (everything except the last 12GB)<br />
sda5 = swap (2GB)<br />
sda6 = /mnt/recovery (10GB)<br />
<br />
This setup caused a problem because the harddrive space available where 1.8TB. And the BIOS and/or grub had problems installing relevant files.<br />
<br />
== Partition the disk ==<br />
Before the real installation, the harddisk needs to be partitioned and setup the way we want to. To that, we boot with any live CD, or the LinuxMCE Installation DVD. I used the LinuxMCE installation DVD. Booting will present the menu, where we want to install LinuxMCE. We don't choose anything, but press <ALT><F2> to get a prompt.<br />
<br />
Execute <br />
sudo fdisk /dev/xxxx<br />
where /dev/xxxx is the device you want to partition<br />
<br />
Now use fdisk to create the partitions. The first partition should be big enough to hold LinuxMCE. I chose 80GB, to be on the save side. After that create an extended partition for the rest of the available disk space. Within the extended partition, first create a logical partition for the swap of say 2GB, then a logical partition for the rescue partition of 10GB. The rest of the space, you can partition to your liking. I ended up with this<br />
sda1 = / 80GB<br />
sda5 = swap 2GB<br />
sda6 = /mnt/recovery (10GB)<br />
sda7 = rest (1.7xTB)<br />
Instead of using fdisk you can use any other tool you might have. Just make sure to have partitions 1,5 and 6.<br />
After creating the partitions, the partitions need to be formatted.<br />
sda1 = mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1<br />
sda5 = mkswap /dev/sda5<br />
sda6 = mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda6<br />
sda7 = mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda7<br />
The first three are important. The partitions you are creating after the recovery partition, can be anything you like.<br />
Now the partitioning is the way we like it.<br />
<br />
== Marking The HDD As A LinuxMCE Installation ==<br />
LinuxMCE would repartition the harddisk now, if you would just start the DVD installer. We need fool LinuxMCE Installer into believing we already have a LinuxMCE installation. To do so we have to create a single file. If you are using the LMCE DVD, it has created the /media/target directory to use below, but if you are using another live CD/DVD, then you need to mount /dev/sda1 somewhere on your system to create the following files inside of the sda1 partition.<br />
mount /dev/sda1 /media/target<br />
mkdir /media/target/etc<br />
touch /media/target/etc/pluto.conf<br />
Done. A restart of your system with the DVD in the drive, and LinuxMCE installer will prompt you, if you want to keep your installation. I chose option 2, meaning just the home dir. LinuxMCE installer will now go ahead and install the new system, while preserving your partitions.<br />
Upon restarting, AV Wizard, and House Setup, all other partitions will be detected, and you will be asked, how you want to use them. Choose LinuxMCE directory structure, and everything is fine.</div>Bmac2http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php?title=Installing_HADesigner&diff=10449Installing HADesigner2008-04-28T16:28:02Z<p>Bmac2: /* For those who already know what they're doing */</p>
<hr />
<div>HADesigner allows user interfaces to be manipulated in an existing LinuxMCE installation. However its install process is not immediately intuitive.<br />
<br />
== For those who already know what they're doing ==<br />
<br />
The instructions must be performed on a Windows machine, preferrably one running Windows 2000 or later.<br />
<br />
# Install the Microsoft .NET Framework, version 1.1 [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=262D25E3-F589-4842-8157-034D1E7CF3A3&displaylang=en Download Link]<br />
# Install the Microsoft .NET ODBC Data Provider [http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=6ccd8427-1017-4f33-a062-d165078e32b1&displaylang=en Download Link]<br />
# Install the MyODBC Adaptor [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/odbc/3.51.html Download Link]<br />
# Add a grant to allow your HADesigner box to access your Core, make up a username and password.... (USE mysql; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON pluto_main.* TO odbcuser@192.168.80.xxx IDENTIFIED BY 'odbcpassword'; FLUSH PRIVILEGES;)<br />
# While installing the myodbc adaptor, use the '''odbcuser''' and '''odbcpassword''' you specified in the GRANT to test the connection from the installer and make sure it works correctly.<br />
# Create a System DSN using the ODBC Administrator, called linuxmce, using the '''odbcuser''' and password you specified above, and use '''pluto_main''' as the database. (This is under "Control Panel" -> "Administrative Tools" -> "Data Sources (ODBC)" You may need to enable the "Classic" view in the explorer shell for the "Control Panel" "folder")<br />
# Copy the files from /usr/pluto/orbiter/skins to C:\PlutoSkins on your HADesigner box. This is so that you can see the skin graphics correctly, as they are only stored with relative paths within the database.<br />
# Download and unpack the HADesigner ZIP. [http://www.zeebop.com/data/linuxmce/designer19_02_2007.zip Download Link], decompress it into some directory, say "C:\HADesigner".<br />
# Launch HADesigner, and in the configuration dialogue box that appears, enter the following information:<br />
#* Skins Directory: C:\PlutoSkins<br />
#* Database Connection: dsn=linuxmce<br />
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With all of this done, the HADesigner should now work.<br />
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If you run HADESigner after following these steps and it is trying to connect to the local machine instead of the core for the database, you must edit the registry to correct a wrong entry that somehow got inserted. The steps are as follows:<br />
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# Run regedit from the run option on you windows machine<br />
# Go to the following hive: <br />
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'''Comupter\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Pluto\OrbiterDesigner'''<br />
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Once in that hive, edit the ConnectionKey to correct the dababase login. Your data should look something similar to the following, only instead of the odbcuser and odbcpassword, replace with yours created above:<br />
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'''driver={MySQL ODBC 3.51 Driver};server=dcerouter;uid=odbcuser;password=odbcpassword;database=pluto_main;'''<br />
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Now HADESigner should find your correct database and work properly.</div>Bmac2