User:Kezza

This is mainly a place I will put down notes at this stage for reference.

New Zealand based setup

Hardware

Lounge - Core Hybrid

- Antec Fusion Case
- Gigabyte Motherboard
- Intel CPU
- 4GB RAM
- NVidia 8600GT - currently running VDPAU basic but should handle at least normal.
- Onboard NIC and a PCI-E gigabit NIC
- Hauppauge NOVA-TD-500 tuner (both tuners work but not currently pnp)
- USB-UIRT
- Philips TV
- Onkyo Receiver

Office - Test MD

- Intel MB with 3.2Ghz processor
- 2GB RAM
- ATI graphics
- Underpowered machine so TV is jumpy. Need to get Nvidia card with VDPAU which should fix problem

Climate

Toshiba RAS Air Con controlled by USB-UIRT in Lounge. Scenarios - OnHeat, OnCold, Off, Temp up, Temp down

Software

Phone

Using www.2talk.co.nz works with Sipgate template but dial pattern in outbound and trunk needs to be changed to xxxxxxxxxx

Install process

- Run through snapshot DVD install
- Setup Avwizard rooms, users and onkyo receiver
- Web Admin - Add TV card WinTV-NOVA-T-500 - quick reload and then wait 5mins for it to setup then scan channels from mythtv backend.
- Web Admin - Change Hardware acceleration to VDPAU
- MythTV - Set 'Current Video Playback Profile' to VDPAU Normal (need to try High)
- MythTV - Disable Realtime priority threads (ticket opened to have this fixed http://svn.linuxmce.org/trac.cgi/ticket/830 )
- MythTV - Enable 'Avoid conflicts between live TV and scheduled shows' - stops channel changes and lockouts when recordings are on
- MythTV - Enable 'Allow live TV to move scheduled shows' - stops channel changes and lockouts when recordings are on
- Add Remote
- Add Air Con
- Add web orbiter 2
- Add N800 orbiter
- Add phoneline
- Setup Air Con Scenarios

To Do

- TV card needs to be PNP.
- Build receiver template using existing onkyo and adding channel up and down, discrete power, zone2.
- Work out TV template (currently can modify philips to suit TV but turns off at times when need to stay on).
- Setup remote template properly and submit
- Get some Z-wave equipment
- Irrigation - maybe rain8