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This is mainly a place I will put down notes at this stage for reference.

New Zealand based setup

= Hardware =

== Lounge - Core Hybrid ==
 - Antec Fusion Case
 - Gigabyte Motherboard
 - Intel CPU
 - 4GB RAM
 - NVidia 8600GT - currently running VDPAU basic but should handle at least normal.
 - Onboard NIC and a PCI-E gigabit NIC
 - Hauppauge NOVA-TD-500 tuner (both tuners work but not currently pnp)
 - USB-UIRT
 - Philips TV
 - Onkyo Receiver

== Office - Test MD ==
 - Intel MB with 3.2Ghz processor
 - 2GB RAM
 - ATI graphics
 - Underpowered machine so TV is jumpy. Need to get Nvidia card with VDPAU which should fix problem

== Climate ==
Toshiba RAS Air Con controlled by USB-UIRT in Lounge. 
Scenarios - OnHeat, OnCold, Off, Temp up, Temp down


= Software =

== Phone ==
Using www.2talk.co.nz works with Sipgate template but dial pattern in outbound and trunk needs to be changed to xxxxxxxxxx

= Install process =
 - Run through snapshot DVD install
 - Setup Avwizard rooms, users and onkyo receiver
 - Web Admin - Add TV card WinTV-NOVA-T-500 - quick reload and then wait 5mins for it to setup then scan channels from mythtv backend.
 - Web Admin - Change Hardware acceleration to VDPAU
 - MythTV - Set 'Current Video Playback Profile' to VDPAU Normal (need to try High)
 - MythTV - Disable Realtime priority threads (ticket opened to have this fixed http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/830 )
 - MythTV - Enable 'Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows' - stops channel changes and lockouts when recordings are on
 - MythTV - Enable 'Allow live TV to move scheduled shows' - stops channel changes and lockouts when recordings are on
 - Add Remote
 - Add Air Con
 - Add web orbiter 2
 - Add N800 orbiter
 - Add phoneline
 - Setup Air Con Scenarios

= To Do = 
 - TV card needs to be PNP.
 - Build receiver template using existing onkyo and adding channel up and down, discrete power, zone2.
 - Work out TV template (currently can modify philips to suit TV but turns off at times when need to stay on).
 - Setup remote template properly and submit
 - Get some Z-wave equipment
 - Irrigation - maybe rain8