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Core/Hybrid

• MB: MSI with Intel G31 Chipset
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E4500 2.2GHz
• RAM: Kingston 2gb DDRII 533MHz
• HDD: Seagate 250gb PATA
• HDD 2: Seagate 200gb SATA
• HDD 3: Seagate 250gb SATA
• Video: nVidia GeForce 7300GS
• CD/DVD: LG DVD/CDRW
• Case: Generic Biege Full Tower Server Case
• Screen: Chimei 19" LCD
• Tuner: Asus U3100 USB Tuner (Auto Detected in 810)
• NIC: Integrated Realtek Gigabit (Internal Network)
• NIC: Realtek 8139D 10/100 PCI (External Network)
• Remote: AIM Microsoft Compatible remote with mini USB reciever (Needed to install lirc-0.8.5 to make this work)
• OS: LinuxMCE 810 32-bit

Lounge MD

• MB: MSI with Intel G31 Chipset
• Processor: Intel Dual Core E2160 2.0GHz
• RAM: Kingston 2gb DDRII 533MHz
• HDD: None
• Video: nVidia GeForce 8500GT
• CD/DVD: LG DVD/CDRW
• Case: Cheiftec Black Midi Tower
• Screen: Teco 32" LCD TV
• NIC: Integrated Realtek Gigabit
• Remote: Genuine Microsoft Media Centre Remote (mce_usb)
• OS: LinuxMCE 810 64-bit

Master Bedroom MD

• MB: DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D SLi
• Processor: AMD Athlon X2 3800+ 2.0GHz
• RAM: Generic 2gb DDR 400MHz
• HDD: None
• Video: nVidia GeForce 7300GS
• CD/DVD: Lite-On DVD+RW DL
• Case: Generic Biege Midi Tower Case
• Screen: Fujitsu 19" Widescreen LCD
• NIC: Integrated nVidia Gigabit
• Remote: AIM Microsoft Compatible remote with mini USB reciever (Needed to install lirc-0.8.5 to make this work)
• OS: LinuxMCE 810 64-bit

Second Bedroom MD

• MB: Giga-Byte K8NF9
• Processor: AMD Athlon 64 3500+
• RAM: Generic 1gb DDR 400MHz
• HDD: None
• Video: nVidia GeForce 6600GT
• CD/DVD: Sony DVD-ROM
• Case: Generic Biege Midi Tower Case
• Screen: 68cm CRT TV
• NIC: Integrated nVidia Gigabit
• Remote: None (Will add another AIM remote at some point but until then I will use the a keyboard and mouse)
• OS: LinuxMCE 810 64-bit

Internal Network (192.168.80.0)

• TP-Link 5 port gigabit switch

External Network (192.168.0.0)

• D-Link 5 port 10/100 Switch
• Alloy 8 port 10/100 Switch
• Smoothwall Express 3.0 Firewall
• Netgear DG632 Modem
• Minitar MVA111A VoIP ATA
• TP-Link 108mbps Wireless Access Point
• 1 Server (web, mail ect)
• 1 PC
• 2 Laptops
• 1 Mac Mini
• 2 XBox 360 Consoles
• HP LaserJet 2550L
• HP PhotoSmart D5360
• Apple iPhone

Future Additions

• Garage MD (Specs undecided yet but probably just another old AMD system)
• X10 Home Automation Equipment (Attempting to get this to work now but not having much luck as CM15A doesn't seem very well supported)
• Any handheld device capable of running a non-web based orbiter

My experience with 710

After doing days of research on whether or not the specific hardware I had would work with linuxmce I took the plunge and installed 710 Installation went fine after I finally found a DVD drive that would read the entire disc and not produce I/O errors

Once installed everything went hunky dory and worked "out-of-box" so to speak. That is until I got to the TV Tuner, I have an Asus U3100 mini USB Tuner and was aware of the risks as it wasn't already supported my linuxmce 710 or any ubuntu pre 8.10 for that matter. I spent the next 6 hours installing v4l-dvb, hunting down the firmware then finding it was the wrong version so it wouldn't work anyway until I found the one it wanted.

I now had TV and was a happy camper.

Everything else was reasonably simple, I added some Diskless MD's and the process was 100% painless, added my movies with no problems until Amazon went down and I had to install the IMDB patch

I recently got some RC6 IR Remotes and receivers which wouldn't work until I install lirc-0.8.5 but that wasn't too much of a hassle.

Overall I'm quite happy with 710 it did what I wanted it to do when I wanted it to do it.

My experience with 810

I wish I could say I had as much luck with 810 as I did with 710 but that would be a lie :P On the plus-side my TV Tuner was detected "out-of-box" as was everything else I have.

First problem I had was with Video on the core.. after the install I got defaulted to UI1 on 640x480 and couldn't change it, AVWizard simply wouldn't start regardless of what I tried (Button just rebooted the system without loading the wizard, holding shift made all the correct beeps but still no wizard, running it manually from terminal gave me a blank screen) I then decided to install 185 nVidia drivers hoping maybe I would get somewhere with that and I was right, once the drivers installed correctly I was able to access the AVWizard (But only by running it manually from terminal, button on orbiter and shift key still don't do anything but as long as it worked I didn't care)

My remotes has the same problem as 710 (Had to update to lirc-0.8.5 (currently comes with 0.8.3)

Probelm I have now is that the remotes only work in the linuxmce menus. I can only control MythTV using the keyboard and mouse.