User's Manual
LinuxMCE is a single solution that consists of several pieces, and each has its own User's Manual.
To get started you will want to read the documentation on Getting Started
You then control and use your LinuxMCE system with Orbiters. Orbiters is just our way of saying "remote control". Every media director has an on-screen Orbiter that you can use to control the system with your TV. But you can also run the same Orbiters on touch-screen panels. See the Orbiter
LinuxMCE is a modular system and you can add all sorts of plug-ins to do various tasks. You will set these up using the LinuxMCE Admin web site, and on each page there is a help button that will take you directly to the documentation for that plug-in. You can also browse the online LinuxMCE Home Software to see the User's Manuals for all the plugins.
If you have any questions you can visit our forums by clicking on Support / Forums, or request live assistance by choosing Live Support.
User's Manual Sections
- Security & Privacy Issues
- What can I do with LinuxMCE?
- Control LinuxMCE using a Windows device as an Orbiter
- Control LinuxMCE using a Symbian Series 60 mobile phone with Bl
- Control LinuxMCE using other types of mobile phones
- Control LinuxMCE using an Infrared remote
- Add support for new remote controls
- Automatic diskless boot of media directors
- Change the look and feel of the Orbiter
- Create my own skins or GUI for LinuxMCE
- Translate the GUI into another language
- Use network audio players for a whole-house music solution
- Control a TV or cable/satellite box
- Watch a DVD/Listen to a CD
- Have LinuxMCE automatically control the TV and Stereo
- Rip a CD/DVD to the Core
- Watch/Listen to media stored on the Core
- Play the same media in multiple rooms simultaneously
- Search for media by attributes using the Orbiters
- Flag media stored on the core as private
- Flag whatever media I am watching now as private
- Catalog media with attributes
- Control regular A/V equipment
- Control A/V equipment with RS232/USB/Ethernet
- Make LinuxMCE do something when I start media
- Have my media follow me
- Make announcements
- Control the media director's volume using either a receiver
- Use a satellite/cable box with the PVR
- What modules are in development?
- Control lights/climate using scenarios
- Control lights or climate with a floorplan
- Make things happen at set times or intervals
- Make things happen when I enter a room
- Have my lighting or climate settings follow me
- Make things happen at sunrise/sunset
- Have external devices control LinuxMCE
- Monitor surveillance cameras
- Arm or disarm the alarm using the Orbiters
- Automatically take pictures when sensors are disturbed
- Have LinuxMCE notify me of security alerts
