Revision as of 18:01, 2 July 2008

My Setup

Hardware

Dedicated Core

• 4U Rackmount case
• 350 watt PSU
• Dual Pentium 3 (1ghz)
• 2 Gb ram
• Onboard 100mb ethernet (external net)
• 64bit pci 1gb fiber card (internal net)
• 2 SB Live! cards
• 1 ati rage 128 (just enough video for a dedicated server)
• 1 80 Gb drive (system and audio media)
• 1 250 GB drive (video media)
• 1 CDROM drive

Media Directors

• None (I use XBMC on an Xbox to watch videos)

Orbiters

• Web orbiter
• Windows orbiter installed under wine

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 central location 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

• Linksys WRT-54G running latest dd-wrt firmware
• Cisco Catalyst 3524xl

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