User:Jspeckman
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My Setup
Hardware
Dedicated Core
- Located in cabinet in basement near patch panel and speaker runs
- 4U Rackmount case
- 350 watt PSU
- Supermicro 370DLE Dual Pentium 3 (1ghz)
- 2 Gb ram
- Onboard 100Mbit ethernet (external net)
- PCI-X 1Gbit fiber card (internal net)
- 2 SB Live! cards
- 1 ati rage 128 (just enough video for a dedicated server)
- 1 80 Gb IDE drive (system and audio media)
- 1 250 GB IDE drive (video media)
- 1 CDROM drive
- 1 4 port usb hub
- 2 APC SmartUPS 900's modded to use 2 lawn tractor batteries each (these power core and network infrastructure)
Media Directors
- None (I use XBMC on an Xbox to watch videos)
Orbiters
- Web orbiter
- Windows orbiter installed under wine on laptop
Automation
- 1 CM11A
- A couple of X10 switches and outlets
Audio
- 2 zones of whole house audio completed so far (this system is being designed for background music)
- All speaker wiring goes to a rack in the basement.
- Volume is controlled via mechanical volume knobs in each room.
- Zone 1 - first soundcard -> amp ->ceiling speakers on first floor.
- Zone 2 - second soundcard -> car amp ->pair of car speakers in outdoor housings on patio
Climate
- DS9490R w/ no sensors currently attached
- GSD weather retrieval plugin NOAA Weather
Network
- 44 Cat5e drops throughout the house and patio (minimum 4 ports per room)
- DSL internet connection
- Linksys WRT-54G running latest dd-wrt firmware
- Cisco Catalyst 3524xl 24 port 10/100 switch w/ 2 GBIC ports
- 4 port internet vlan
- Core and WRT-54G connect directly to internet
- WRT-54G is firewall, DNS/DHCP server for rest of network
Software
- LinuxMCE 704 (haven't had time to upgrade to 710)
- Latest Squeezecenter (replaced SlimServer shipped with LinuxMCE) Upgrading SlimServer
- Squeezeslave on the core for distributed audio