User:Jspeckman

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