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The first ever LinuxMCE gathering, and if you weren't there then, well... you've missed it! Everybody else: please dump your stories, pictures, videos, etcetera here. | The first ever LinuxMCE gathering, and if you weren't there then, well... you've missed it! Everybody else: please dump your stories, pictures, videos, etcetera here. | ||
| − | [[image:linuxtag2008team.JPG|thumb|300px|center|From Left to Right: KR, Zaerc, Hari, DanielK22, | + | [[image:linuxtag2008team.JPG|thumb|300px|center|From Left to Right: KR, Zaerc, Hari, DanielK22, possy, ddamron, TSCHAK]] |
== Timeline == | == Timeline == | ||
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=== Sunday May 25 === | === Sunday May 25 === | ||
| − | Zaerc arrives late in the afternoon at the trainstation in Hamburg and is picked up by Possy | + | Zaerc arrives late in the afternoon at the trainstation in Hamburg and is picked up by Possy. They both ride to Berlin in the "possy-wagon" and are welcomed by Katrin and Hari into their home where Dan is also staying. |
=== Monday May 26 === | === Monday May 26 === | ||
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=== Wednseday May 28 === | === Wednseday May 28 === | ||
| − | The first day of the show. Daniel finished setting up MythTV with DVB-t. Dan and Zaerc set up their laptops as extra Media Directors. | + | The first day of the show. Daniel finished setting up MythTV with DVB-t. Dan and Zaerc set up their laptops as extra Media Directors. KR ("|kr|") whom we know from the chatroom comes by as a visitor. |
| − | After the show closed at 6pm (for visitors at least) one of the major sponsors had arranged a tap with free beer. Lateron we went to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. Where Hari ordered a very "special" beer for Dan, who had enjoyed the free beer earlier just a little to much. And there was much rejoicing when, halfway through, Dan discovered his "special" beer was actually alcohol-free beer. | + | After the show closed at 6pm (for visitors at least) one of the major sponsors had arranged a tap with free beer. Lateron we went to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. Where Hari ordered a very "special" beer for Dan, who had enjoyed the free beer earlier just a little to much. And there was much rejoicing when, halfway through, Dan discovered his "special" beer was actually alcohol-free beer. KR joined us for dinner a bit later, he wanted to stay for the next days as well. Zaerc offered KR the fold-out couch in his appartment so he wouldn't have to sleep in his car. |
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| + | German TV station ZDF films in our booth. A member of the press came by early in the show and told us he was going to come back with a film crew. Later that day, he kept his word. | ||
=== Thursday May 29 === | === Thursday May 29 === | ||
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Daniel's wife Jessie arrives in Berlin. | Daniel's wife Jessie arrives in Berlin. | ||
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Daniel had gotten us all tickets for the LinuxTag social gathering party, but strangely enough he didn't show up himself. There was lots of good food, cold drinks, interesting people, a band playing and a DJ afterwards. | Daniel had gotten us all tickets for the LinuxTag social gathering party, but strangely enough he didn't show up himself. There was lots of good food, cold drinks, interesting people, a band playing and a DJ afterwards. | ||
| − | At the end of the party Dan, | + | At the end of the party Dan, KR and Hari decided to promote LMCE some more with a few wrestling demonstrations in a hallway with huge glass windows on both sides, fortunately nobody got hurt. |
=== Friday May 30 === | === Friday May 30 === | ||
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There was a successful [http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/conf/events/vp-samstag/details.html?talkid=192 presentation by Daniel in the London room between 12am and 1pm], Dan was there to capture it on video. The slides are available in [http://www.linuxmce.org/misc/lmce_presentation_linuxtag2008.pdf PDF format] and [http://www.linuxmce.org/misc/lmce_presentation_linuxtag2008.odp OpenOffice.org format]. | There was a successful [http://www.linuxtag.org/2008/en/conf/events/vp-samstag/details.html?talkid=192 presentation by Daniel in the London room between 12am and 1pm], Dan was there to capture it on video. The slides are available in [http://www.linuxmce.org/misc/lmce_presentation_linuxtag2008.pdf PDF format] and [http://www.linuxmce.org/misc/lmce_presentation_linuxtag2008.odp OpenOffice.org format]. | ||
| − | Suddenly we get a prize from the organization for having one of the best 2 booths at the show, a shiny new nokia810. Everybody is dead tired at the end of the afternoon, but we wait until closing time before packing everything up not to dissapoint the last visitors that came by. At 6pm we took everything down and moved most of it back to Hari's house. He stayed at home to get some rest while the rest of us went out to dinner. After Dinner Michael and Ladislav had to go home, and Possy was to tired to join us for drinks so he went for a nap in the | + | Suddenly we get a prize from the organization for having one of the best 2 booths at the show, a shiny new nokia810. Everybody is dead tired at the end of the afternoon, but we wait until closing time before packing everything up not to dissapoint the last visitors that came by. At 6pm we took everything down and moved most of it back to Hari's house. He stayed at home to get some rest while the rest of us went out to dinner. After Dinner Michael and Ladislav had to go home, and Possy was to tired to join us for drinks so he went for a nap in the possy-wagon. |
| − | The remaining party of Dan, Thom, Daniel, Jessie, | + | The remaining party of Dan, Thom, Daniel, Jessie, KR and Zaerc went for some drinks in a place that Hari and Katrin had taken Dan earlier, it had a really nice alternative atmosphere. Some crazy things happened but we all enjoyed ourselves and had a really great time. Dan spent the night on the couch at Thom's appartment to give Hari some desperately needed alone time with Katrin. |
=== Sunday June 1 === | === Sunday June 1 === | ||
| − | Possy, Thom and Dan leave for Poland in the possy-wagon to visit Thom's girlfriend Quynh ("grebe"). Daniel and Jessie take off for a short vacation touring through Germany. And before driving home himself, | + | Possy, Thom and Dan leave for Poland in the possy-wagon to visit Thom's girlfriend Quynh ("grebe"). Daniel and Jessie take off for a short vacation touring through Germany. And before driving home himself, KR drops Zaerc off at the central station of Berlin, from where Zaerc took the train back home. |
== Equipment used == | == Equipment used == | ||
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Image:IMG_0544.JPG|Insteon Equipment | Image:IMG_0544.JPG|Insteon Equipment | ||
Image:IMG_0546.JPG|Insteon RemoteLinc and Thermostat | Image:IMG_0546.JPG|Insteon RemoteLinc and Thermostat | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0548.JPG| | + | Image:IMG_0548.JPG|Cisco 7905G IP Phone |
Image:IMG_0550.JPG|Nokia N800 weborbiter | Image:IMG_0550.JPG|Nokia N800 weborbiter | ||
Image:IMG_0551.JPG|Nokia N800 viewing IP Camera | Image:IMG_0551.JPG|Nokia N800 viewing IP Camera | ||
Image:IMG_0552.JPG|TSCHAK and his eeepc | Image:IMG_0552.JPG|TSCHAK and his eeepc | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0554.JPG| | + | Image:IMG_0554.JPG|D-Link IP Camera |
Image:IMG_0555.JPG|Symbian Orbiter on Nokia 7650 | Image:IMG_0555.JPG|Symbian Orbiter on Nokia 7650 | ||
Image:IMG_0558.JPG|Powerfile C200 & Hari's MD | Image:IMG_0558.JPG|Powerfile C200 & Hari's MD | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0559.JPG| | + | Image:IMG_0559.JPG|Cisco 7970G IP Phone |
Image:IMG_0560.JPG|Fujitsu TabletPC Orbiter | Image:IMG_0560.JPG|Fujitsu TabletPC Orbiter | ||
Image:IMG_0561.JPG|Toys!!! | Image:IMG_0561.JPG|Toys!!! | ||
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Image:IMG_0563.JPG|GlobalCache GC100-06 (rear) | Image:IMG_0563.JPG|GlobalCache GC100-06 (rear) | ||
Image:IMG_0564.JPG|ZWave PIR | Image:IMG_0564.JPG|ZWave PIR | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0566.JPG|ZWave Thermostat | + | Image:IMG_0566.JPG|Danfoss ZWave Thermostat |
| − | Image:IMG_0567.JPG|ZWave Thermostat (apart) | + | Image:IMG_0567.JPG|Danfoss ZWave Thermostat (apart) |
Image:IMG_0569.JPG|ZWave Switch | Image:IMG_0569.JPG|ZWave Switch | ||
Image:IMG_0571.JPG|Digium IP Phone Adapter | Image:IMG_0571.JPG|Digium IP Phone Adapter | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0572.JPG| | + | Image:IMG_0572.JPG|Digium IP Phone Adapter (bottom) |
Image:IMG_0574.JPG|IRTRANS | Image:IMG_0574.JPG|IRTRANS | ||
Image:IMG_0575.JPG|IRTRANS Side (ethernet) | Image:IMG_0575.JPG|IRTRANS Side (ethernet) | ||
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Image:IMG_0582.JPG|Zaerc grinning | Image:IMG_0582.JPG|Zaerc grinning | ||
Image:IMG_0585.JPG|ddamron filming around | Image:IMG_0585.JPG|ddamron filming around | ||
| − | Image:IMG_0586.JPG| | + | Image:IMG_0586.JPG|Possy talking to visitor |
Image:IMG_0640.JPG|Hari & TSCHAK | Image:IMG_0640.JPG|Hari & TSCHAK | ||
Image:IMG_0777.JPG|DanielK | Image:IMG_0777.JPG|DanielK | ||
Latest revision as of 15:09, 11 April 2011
Contents |
The first ever LinuxMCE gathering, and if you weren't there then, well... you've missed it! Everybody else: please dump your stories, pictures, videos, etcetera here.
Timeline
Please improve/expand/correct...
Saturday May 24
Dan ("ddamron") arives at Berlin airport, and is picked up by Hari after some delay. Dan wanted to make sure he'd have no problem if he took his equipment back home again, which aparently confused some officials.
Sunday May 25
Zaerc arrives late in the afternoon at the trainstation in Hamburg and is picked up by Possy. They both ride to Berlin in the "possy-wagon" and are welcomed by Katrin and Hari into their home where Dan is also staying.
Monday May 26
This day was mostly spent playing around with Hari's system at home while preparing and testing a lot of things we were going to use in the booth. Amongst others we:
- Played around with setting up MDs
- Checked in a template for the camera
- Tested several orbiters on mobile phones and nokia webpads.
- Playing with some not-recommended setups (just to see if it COULD work)
Special Thanks to Katrin for putting up with 4 geeks taking over her precious TV.
Tuesday May 27
Daniel ("danielk") arrives at the airport around 10am and is picked up by Hari, we all meet at Hari's house, before going to the convention center. After checking in and receiving our passes we arrive at the booth and start unloading the cars. We rearrange the furniture a bit and setup the hardware. Thom ("TSCHAK") arrives at the airport around 2pm and is picked up by Possy and Dan, together they return to the booth.
Since Hari had dropped the install DVD, we decided to install from CDs because Daniel has a Kubuntu live CD with him and the ISOs on his laptop. The install of linuxmce-0710 i386 took about an hour (after the kubuntu install). We ran into the problem that the Media Directors were recognized as AMD64. So Thom set them up manually as i386.
Wednseday May 28
The first day of the show. Daniel finished setting up MythTV with DVB-t. Dan and Zaerc set up their laptops as extra Media Directors. KR ("|kr|") whom we know from the chatroom comes by as a visitor.
After the show closed at 6pm (for visitors at least) one of the major sponsors had arranged a tap with free beer. Lateron we went to dinner at a Vietnamese restaurant. Where Hari ordered a very "special" beer for Dan, who had enjoyed the free beer earlier just a little to much. And there was much rejoicing when, halfway through, Dan discovered his "special" beer was actually alcohol-free beer. KR joined us for dinner a bit later, he wanted to stay for the next days as well. Zaerc offered KR the fold-out couch in his appartment so he wouldn't have to sleep in his car.
German TV station ZDF films in our booth. A member of the press came by early in the show and told us he was going to come back with a film crew. Later that day, he kept his word.
Thursday May 29
Marko ("Maroko") joins us.
Daniel's wife Jessie arrives in Berlin.
...
Daniel had gotten us all tickets for the LinuxTag social gathering party, but strangely enough he didn't show up himself. There was lots of good food, cold drinks, interesting people, a band playing and a DJ afterwards.
At the end of the party Dan, KR and Hari decided to promote LMCE some more with a few wrestling demonstrations in a hallway with huge glass windows on both sides, fortunately nobody got hurt.
Friday May 30
Michael ("m1ch43l") and Ladislav (also known from the chatroom) came by, and showed the beautiful new skin they're working on.
In the afternoon there were some hardware problems with the core involving the external ethernet port. So after some mucking about, we decide to continue without internet acces, since that is not really needed for the demonstrations anyway.
Possy won us an OpenMoko phone to use for development, after Zaerc made everyone enter in the competition where they gave them away. After that we closed the booth around 6pm and went to dinner, then straight to our sleeping quarters. Everybody was beat and glad to get an early night in.
Saturday May 31
The core machine kept acting up so we ditched it and installed one of the Media directors as a Hybrid instead, problems solved. The DVDs to hand out have finaly arrived from Pluto. A decision is made to just hand them out left and right since it's the last day anyway.
There was a successful presentation by Daniel in the London room between 12am and 1pm, Dan was there to capture it on video. The slides are available in PDF format and OpenOffice.org format.
Suddenly we get a prize from the organization for having one of the best 2 booths at the show, a shiny new nokia810. Everybody is dead tired at the end of the afternoon, but we wait until closing time before packing everything up not to dissapoint the last visitors that came by. At 6pm we took everything down and moved most of it back to Hari's house. He stayed at home to get some rest while the rest of us went out to dinner. After Dinner Michael and Ladislav had to go home, and Possy was to tired to join us for drinks so he went for a nap in the possy-wagon.
The remaining party of Dan, Thom, Daniel, Jessie, KR and Zaerc went for some drinks in a place that Hari and Katrin had taken Dan earlier, it had a really nice alternative atmosphere. Some crazy things happened but we all enjoyed ourselves and had a really great time. Dan spent the night on the couch at Thom's appartment to give Hari some desperately needed alone time with Katrin.
Sunday June 1
Possy, Thom and Dan leave for Poland in the possy-wagon to visit Thom's girlfriend Quynh ("grebe"). Daniel and Jessie take off for a short vacation touring through Germany. And before driving home himself, KR drops Zaerc off at the central station of Berlin, from where Zaerc took the train back home.
Equipment used
"Closet" setup
- Generic PC as Core
- Z-Wave Seluxit viaSENS Home Controller
- Freecom DVB-T-Stick
"Living room" setup
- MSI Media Live Barebone
- Pioneer 428 720p HDTV (RS-232 controlled), Courtesy of PrimusAudio
- Denon AVR-4306 Receiver (ethernet controlled), Courtesy of ComputaCenter + Teufel System 4 loudspeakers
- 2× Z-Wave light module + lamp
- Fiire dongle
"Bedroom" setup
- MD Newbie Pack Slim I
- Generic flat panel
- Generic amplifier + loudspeakers
- 2× Z-Wave light module + lamp
- Z-Wave appliance module to drive a table fan
- Generic Bluetooth Dongle
- Fiire dongle
Other
- Cisco 7970 Phone, Courtesy of Cisco
- D-Link DCS-5300G IP camera
- 3Com 3CDSG10PWR 10 Port GigaBit Switch with PoE
- ZyXEL P-335U Wifi router
Remotes
Orbiters
- Nokia 770 webpad
- Nokia N800 webpad
- Nokia N810 webpad
- Fujitsu TabletPC
Mobile Orbiters
- Nokia N70 mobile phone (SymbianMO)
- Nokia N73 mobile phone (JavaMO)
- Nokia 7650 mobile phone (SymbianMO)
Extra Media Directors
Equipment for Display purposes
- Powerfile C200
- Insteon switches, interfaces, etc
- X10 switches and interfaces
- LIRC Modules, 1 ethernet, 1 USB
- Cisco ATA-186/188
- GlobalCache GC-100
- 3× USB UIRT
- 2× IRTrans, Courtesy of IRTrans
- Curtain Controllers
Credits
Huge thanks go out to:
- LinuxTag (http://www.linuxtag.org) for sponsoring the booth, special thanks go to Marko Jung
- SerNet (http://www.sernet.de) for sponsoring all our expenses (travel, hotel, t-shirts), special thanks go to Johannes Loxen
- IrTrans (http://www.irtrans.de) for sponsoring two IrTrans units
- Cisco (http://www.cisco.com) for providing a Cisco CP7970 IP Phone
- Abaton (http://www.abaton.at) for providing a MSI MediaLive Barebone
- Insteon (http://www.smarthome.com) for providing Insteon equipment
- ComputaCenter (http://www.computacenter.de) for providing a Denon AVR 4306
- Primus Audio (http://www.primusaudio.de) for providing the Pioneer plasma display.
- everybody that made this possible in one way or another, special thanks go to possy (and we all know why)
Pictures
- LinuxTAG 2008 Pictures
TSCHAK and ddamron
Hari
First day closing time
Front of Booth
One last visitor remains
Insteon Equipment
Insteon RemoteLinc and Thermostat
Cisco 7905G IP Phone
Nokia N800 weborbiter
Nokia N800 viewing IP Camera
TSCHAK and his eeepc
D-Link IP Camera
Symbian Orbiter on Nokia 7650
Powerfile C200 & Hari's MD
Cisco 7970G IP Phone
Fujitsu TabletPC Orbiter
Toys!!!
GlobalCache GC100-06
GlobalCache GC100-06 (rear)
ZWave PIR
Danfoss ZWave Thermostat
Danfoss ZWave Thermostat (apart)
ZWave Switch
Digium IP Phone Adapter
Digium IP Phone Adapter (bottom)
IRTRANS
IRTRANS Side (ethernet)
IRTRANS Side (IR)
Quiet Booth
everyone is TIRED
Quick look busy everyone!
Hari exhausted :)
Zaerc grinning
ddamron filming around
Possy talking to visitor
Hari & TSCHAK
DanielK
Pioneer Plasma
Team Photo
Team Photo
