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Contents
What is Pluto?
Pluto is the only solution seamlessly combining:
- media & entertainment with a server for music, movies and tv shows, plus a PVR and DVD Player,
- a home automation system to control everything in the home with touch-screen tablet and Bluetooth mobile phone controllers,
- a phone system with video conferencing,
- a security system that feeds you live video on your mobile phone when something happens, and lets you speak to visitors through your stereos, and
- a home PC solution.
A typical Pluto system consists of a Core: one PC acting as a dedicated server and interface to all the sub-components. The Core includes our own plug-and-play back-end so it listens for and auto configures all sorts of devices like network audio players (such as Squeeze Box), IP phones and cameras. The Core automatically exposes a network boot for any other PC's or thin clients you want to use as Media Directors, which you hook up to your TV/Stereo's to use as set top boxes, complete with a media player, PVR, video conferencing, intercom, and a GUI to control everything in the home. All Media Directors work together seamlessly as a total whole-house solution.
News
Release .40 launched, check change log
Features
Screenshots
Download
Getting Started
Support
User's Manual
Configuring Pluto Home
Configuring Pluto Home
FAQ
- Development status for all modules
- What does an appliance solution like Pluto cost?
- Why buy a licensed Pluto product? What's the difference?
- Do I need Pluto? Can I use the projects by themselves?
- What if you don't have a driver for my home automation devic
- How are media files organized?
- What scenarios are created automatically?
- I'm a Linux user already. Should I use Pluto's distribution
- I want my software to run on Pluto but it isn't open source
- Will you host, compile and support the Pluto plug-ins for my
Development
Documentation by Device Templates
Change logs
Documents
Installation
Installation
Equipment
PC Hardware & Peripherals
Why dual network cards?
Sound Cards
Recommended Accessories
Software
Building from source
Kick-Start CD
Installers
Windows
Installing on a new platform
Network Boot for Media Directors
Encrypted DVD's
Wiring Considerations
Choosing Locations
Quick Start Guides
Picking the right components
Installing the software
Installing the hardware
Tell Pluto about your home
Testing and troubleshooting devices
Real world example
Setting up MythTV
Using Pluto
Usability issues
Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting
Reset the password for the Pluto Admin site
I can't access my media files over the network
How do I login to a Linux console?
svn default properties
Adding new computing apps
PlutoVIP
Short Howto on Wiki
Creating a new page
To create a new page you don't realy need a wiki-link that points to it, you only need to write this in your location bar:
http://plutohome.com/wiki/index.php/My New Page Name
This way we will not have links pointing to death / unfinished pages.
Categories
Look on the Categories page to see the categories the where allready entered and click on one of the categories to see the documents related to it. If you want to add your document in a existing category or wish to create a new one, add this wiki tag for each category at the end of your page:
[[ Category : First Category Name ]] [[ Category : Second Category Name ]]
Tree like structure using Categories
MediaWiki uses the concept of categories to help you separate information in logical related pages. Sometimes you want to create a tree-like structure to organize that information, this can be done by using the concept of subcategories. To make a category X to act as a subcategory of category Y, just add the wiki tag: [[ Category : Y ]] in the X category description page, this way you will make Y category the parent of X category.
