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Martinseidel: New Home Automation System added

2010-08-11T11:03:18Z

New Home Automation System added

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	Waiting for PCLBUS now... Looks good on Hari's example-install.		Waiting for PCLBUS now... Looks good on Hari's example-install.
			''How about HomeMatic? Are there any best practices?''--[[User:Martinseidel\|Martinseidel]] 13:03, 11 August 2010 (CEST)

	== Pictures ==		== Pictures ==

Chewi: /* Pictures */

2008-03-24T17:47:41Z

Pictures

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	Predefinable Tags, like Cheackbuttons onscreen... If they are halfway transparent, they could be on top of the picture. Kind of a tagging-mode. And then have a tag-slide-show... Show everything in folder /public/pictures/2004/10 with the tag "nice landscape". That would be nice for parties.		Predefinable Tags, like Cheackbuttons onscreen... If they are halfway transparent, they could be on top of the picture. Kind of a tagging-mode. And then have a tag-slide-show... Show everything in folder /public/pictures/2004/10 with the tag "nice landscape". That would be nice for parties.

	~~''Italic text~~''What if the jpg images are copied into the folder where flikr is keeping pictures and disconnect that from internet...Will the pictures then appear like looping slideshow... That might be an easier fix.. or is it?		:''What if the jpg images are copied into the folder where flikr is keeping pictures and disconnect that from internet...Will the pictures then appear like looping slideshow... That might be an easier fix.. or is it?''
	''~~Italic text~~''
			::Sure, there are several ideas for manual slideshow-hacks, e.g. in the [http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=2713.0 Forum]... But I'm after a mechanism that is consistent with the general LMCE-idea and GUI, which I'm not that happy with right now (see collections-idea below)...

	== Camera ==		== Camera ==

Garg art: /* Pictures */

2008-03-22T23:44:44Z

Pictures

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	Predefinable Tags, like Cheackbuttons onscreen... If they are halfway transparent, they could be on top of the picture. Kind of a tagging-mode. And then have a tag-slide-show... Show everything in folder /public/pictures/2004/10 with the tag "nice landscape". That would be nice for parties.		Predefinable Tags, like Cheackbuttons onscreen... If they are halfway transparent, they could be on top of the picture. Kind of a tagging-mode. And then have a tag-slide-show... Show everything in folder /public/pictures/2004/10 with the tag "nice landscape". That would be nice for parties.

			''Italic text''What if the jpg images are copied into the folder where flikr is keeping pictures and disconnect that from internet...Will the pictures then appear like looping slideshow... That might be an easier fix.. or is it?
			''Italic text''

	== Camera ==		== Camera ==

Chewi: /* Home Automation */

2008-01-18T10:04:53Z

Home Automation

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	FS20 seems not to work correctly, according to another user...		FS20 seems not to work correctly, according to another user...

			Waiting for PCLBUS now... Looks good on Hari's example-install.

	== Pictures ==		== Pictures ==

Chewi: DVD-shrinking on ripping...

2008-01-18T10:03:38Z

DVD-shrinking on ripping...

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	So changes for secure and easier mode would have to be, that instead of looking at the core, the MDs look into their own table. On the core there is an additional table with collections, that can be added to the local table on the MD. When a user activates a MD, the default non-lockable collection (the original media-table) is transfered. When a user leaves a MD, the table is dropped.		So changes for secure and easier mode would have to be, that instead of looking at the core, the MDs look into their own table. On the core there is an additional table with collections, that can be added to the local table on the MD. When a user activates a MD, the default non-lockable collection (the original media-table) is transfered. When a user leaves a MD, the table is dropped.

			== DVD-shrinking on ripping... ==

			Right now, DVDs are ripped 1to1. So a bunch of data is stored. This takes a lot of HDD for stuff not needed.
			Bonus-Material is not necessary. For someone familiar with german and english, frensh is not necessary.
			And the Movie might be too big. Lesser Bitrates could give a good movie.

			At the same time the menu should be kept alive for the optional inclusion of bonus material.

			Solution: Shrink it.
			# [http://dvd95.sourceforge.net/ DVD95] is an example for this. But it has a GUI and according to the developer, GUI and functionality are closely wired together. But he allowed his code to be reused in LMCE, when I contacted him.

			# [http://lxdvdrip.berlios.de/ lxdvdrip] is a commandline-based program with the same functionality and no interaction. Only parameters do the trick. So it could be utilized. Problem is, that I did not get it to compile yet. Gonna have a look at it soon...

Chewi: /* Encryption/Collections */

2007-11-20T14:42:42Z

Encryption/Collections

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	Is it still interessting to have private and public collections ? Yes... family collections and stuff...		Is it still interessting to have private and public collections ? Yes... family collections and stuff...

			=== How could this be done ? ===
			Have a table of collections at the core, that contains only a single blob of encrypted data.

			This encrypted data is the actual media-table.

			On unlocking a collection, the collection is transfered to the MD and decrypted there (on password prompt) and added to the local media-table.

			There the table of media-data is held as long as the user stays there. When he leaves, the table is droped (in secure mode) or kept and collections are deleted from it on locking a collection.

			On Follow-Me, the table is transfered to the new MD, IF the pincode (or a password instead) on the new MD was correct and deleted on the old one.

			So changes for secure and easier mode would have to be, that instead of looking at the core, the MDs look into their own table. On the core there is an additional table with collections, that can be added to the local table on the MD. When a user activates a MD, the default non-lockable collection (the original media-table) is transfered. When a user leaves a MD, the table is dropped.

Chewi: /* Encryption */

2007-11-12T08:42:45Z

Encryption

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	I want to have recordings from the camera whenever motion is detected. If someone breakes in, i want to give the police a picture and video of the intrudor. best to be streamed to a web-destination. uploaded on the fly in 1minute-files. and a continuous on the hard-disk.		I want to have recordings from the camera whenever motion is detected. If someone breakes in, i want to give the police a picture and video of the intrudor. best to be streamed to a web-destination. uploaded on the fly in 1minute-files. and a continuous on the hard-disk.

	== Encryption ==		== Encryption/Collections ==

	=== Scenario: ===		=== Scenario: ===
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	You can unlock them to search through them and watch them.		You can unlock them to search through them and watch them.

			=== Collections ===
	These Sets could be called repositories or collections. That could make searching easier.		These Sets could be called repositories or collections. That could make searching easier.

Chewi: Encryption

2007-11-12T08:42:01Z

Encryption

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	== Camera ==		== Camera ==
	I want to have recordings from the camera whenever motion is detected. If someone breakes in, i want to give the police a picture and video of the intrudor. best to be streamed to a web-destination. uploaded on the fly in 1minute-files. and a continuous on the hard-disk.		I want to have recordings from the camera whenever motion is detected. If someone breakes in, i want to give the police a picture and video of the intrudor. best to be streamed to a web-destination. uploaded on the fly in 1minute-files. and a continuous on the hard-disk.

			== Encryption ==

			=== Scenario: ===
			If you're using LinuxMCE with a Roommate or in a Flat Sharing or together with you neighbors, you might not want them to be able to watch your intimate home video and they don't want you to watch theirs. But either one of you or both does have root privileges. So what now.

			When transfering a movie to LinuxMCE, you cannot allow them to use it. Copyright forbids it.

			=== Solution: ===
			Use encryption. For the file itself, so nobody can see the content and for the database so nobody can see what movies you have and for the movie thumbnail.

			The Idea is to use a field in the database that marks encrypted entries. When accessing this media / media directory, you're asked for a password with a full keyboard (like when entering the usernames in the setup dialog).

			This (its hash-value) is then used to encrypt the file using e.g. AES.

			For the media-searching (db-entries and cover art) I must come up with a good encryption scheme. e.g. use a master-password for the marked entries. Or use Encryption Sets of movies.

			=== Ecryption Sets ===
			You setup an Encryption Set and give it a name and a password.

			You then add the movies you want encrypted (files, db-entries (meaning titles), coverart) to that set. They are encrypted with the pass/symmetric key defined by the encryption set.

			You can then lock an encryption set so the movies are not accessable anymore and are also not shown in the media-search

			You can unlock them to search through them and watch them.

			These Sets could be called repositories or collections. That could make searching easier.

			You have a collection of vacation movies, a collection of party-movies, a collection of children movies and a collection of horror movies.

			Why would you want to be able to search through any of those at the same time ?

			On the other hand it might be interessting to add a movie to several collections ? No... That would be too similar to the genre tag. Collections are distinct.

			Is it still interessting to have private and public collections ? Yes... family collections and stuff...

Chewi: /* The Audio Stuff */

2007-10-11T08:28:42Z

The Audio Stuff

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	:''Streaming would probably be a nice feature, there are people looking into integrating video-streaming possibilies already, see the forum for the discussion.''		:''Streaming would probably be a nice feature, there are people looking into integrating video-streaming possibilies already, see the forum for the discussion.''
	:--[[User:Zaerc\|Zaerc]] 07:09, 7 October 2007 (MST)		:--[[User:Zaerc\|Zaerc]] 07:09, 7 October 2007 (MST)

			Another interessting part would be, to have the lyriks somewhat similar to gmpc. as linuxmce is inteded to be always onscreen, that would be something to fill the screen with, besides artist-pic and cover-art...

			speeking of which, why is the coverart not displayed at all, when playing a song ?

	== Asterisk ==		== Asterisk ==

Zaerc: /* Asterisk */

2007-10-07T16:09:57Z

Asterisk

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	Why does pluto-admin only allow me to define one phone line ? see 1st usecase above...		Why does pluto-admin only allow me to define one phone line ? see 1st usecase above...

			:''You may want to try "from-pstn" instead of "from-trunk" (which could create a loop I think). And you can do a lot more setup from the integrated AMP website (web-admin: Advanced > Configuration > Phones setup) it has more options to setup call routing and a second line.''
			:--[[User:Zaerc\|Zaerc]] 09:09, 7 October 2007 (MST)

	== Sources ==		== Sources ==