User:Krys

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Intro to my LMCE setup

I started playing around with the idea of LMCE late October of 2008. Mainly I just started putting the pieces together in my head and taking an inventory of all the spare pc's I had laying around in my house. I was previously using Windows MCE and a program called My Movies to catalog and play all my dvd's. I ran into a few issues I didn't like, one being I couldn't play dvd's through my system on my xbox, and also it was just a media center which offered no home automation. I have been wanting to experiment with home automation for a while but didn't want to shell out the big $$$ as it was more of a want than a need. So enter LMCE, a piece of free software that is highly configurable, and can bet set up to work with almost any pc laying around not being used. I watched the video and was immediately hooked, everything I wanted and I could get the basics up and running for free. I started out just running it on 1 pc as a core and have since added on multiple MD's. This will serve as a "documentary" of my experience.

Current Hardware

  • Dell Optiplex (Core)** 3ghz, 4gb ram, 80gb HDD, Gb Nic
  • 4x IBM Lenovo Workstations (md)- 2.8ghz, 1gb ram, no internal HDD
  • Linksys 4 port wireless router (external network)
  • Dlink 4 port wireless router (internal network)
  • Dlink 8 port 100/1000 switch (internal network)
  • Dlink 323 NAS w/ 2x 1TB Seagate SATA HDD
  • 2x USB-UIRT- 1 in Home Theater room, 1 in Closet/Storage room on Core
  • 2x Sony AV Reciever
  • Samsung 50" Plasma- Home Theater room
  • Sanyo 27" CRT- Master Bedroom


Hardware with issues

Dell Vostro 200 (md)- 2ghz, 1gb ram, 80gb HDD. Kernel panic when trying to net boot, have tried the e100 and e1000 module

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