User:Tortho
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Info:
Location: Lillesand, Norway
Occupation: Vessel Manager for Wilhelmsen Ship Management
Gender/Age: Male, 1976
IRC: Tortho
Core:
Hybrid: (Located in a closet oposite to the living room)
- Asus M3N78-EM onboard: GeForce 8300, GbLan, DVI, HDMI, 1394, Raid
- AMD Phenom II 940 Quad Core 3000Mhz
- 4GB OCZ DDR2 PC2-6400 Gold XTC
- 4 X 1GB Western Digital Caviar Greepower 7200RPM SATA II, 32MB
- Coolermaster Midi Tower w/Chieftec 450W Power, 3 X Silent Fans
Media Director:
- A HP laptop with the screen removed as MD.
AV:
- Sharp Aquos LC-52X20E (52" LCD), Connected to the Hybrid.
- Sharp Aquos LC-46D65E (46" LCD), Connected to the MD
Home Automation:
- Aeon Labs Z-stick (USB Static Zwave Controller)
- 2 X Duewi Art.No.05433 (7) - ZW Edan 300 light dimmer
- 2 X Duewi Art.No 05431 (3) - ZW ES 1000 light switch
- 1 X ACT HomePro ZRM230 light switch (Only left paddle controlling the load is detected and working in LMCE)
- 8 X Z-Wave smoke detectors. Everday Technology SD-728V1-I / Everspring SF812 / Flex-control SF812-1 Smoke Detectors
Additional Accessories:
- The broadband router w/wifi for "External Net"
- D-Link Dir 655 Wireless N router for "Internal Net"
- UPS
- An old server running ClarkConnect for experimenting with mail, web, proxy and other setups
The Installation:
- Started with installing the 8.10 Alpha from Repo.
- Later upgraded with apt-get to the beta version.
- Created the Diskless Boot for the MD.
- Installed Squid proxy on the core.
- Added a Dyndns account to access the core from work.
Current Status:
- Media added and working well
- Controlling light switches & dimmers
Current Issues:
- HDMI Video stopped working after the latest upgrades (From Alpha to Beta)
- RS232 Serial connection to the TV does not work.
- Tagging of media does not work. (When it comes to "category" of the media.
- Tried Trust USB Bluetooth Dongles which was detected by LMCE, but it does not detect any Bluetooth devices.
- Tried Billiton USB Bluetooth Dongle which did detect some equipment like phone and laptop, but never managed to get the phones to work as an orbiter.
- Everspring Smoke Detectors not detected by LMCE
Plans:
- Get the above issues fixed
- Extent the automation part
to be continued...
