User:Bozza

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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 (Due mid September 09)
  • 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.

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