User:Seth

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My name is Seth Jerome, my user name is just seth or in irc seth|work, or seth|laptop. I am located in Pitman, Pennsylvania. And I have been a linux convert since 1993. I am also a Knoppmyth convert who discovered LinuxMCE just about 4 months ago. I watched the google video and made the switch with a painful CD install, or rather several, of version 7.04. I have since then tried just about every version up to today. Although the road was bumpy at times, now I would not use anything else. My setup at home is below.

Core - Basement

  • NZXT Gamma Black Case - 580 Watt Green 80 power supply
  • Asus M3A78-EM Mother board
  • 1x AMD X2 5000+ Dual core 2.6GHz
  • 2G RAM - OCZ
  • 1x LiteOn DVD-CDRW
  • 1x Western Digitial 160GB SATA drive (OS Drive)
  • 2x Western Digital 500GB SATA drive (media)
  • 1x Hitachi 1TB SATA (media)
  • 1x Seagate 2TB SATA (media)
  • 1x Hauppauge_WinTV-PVR-500_MCE

- Tuner 1 Using Schedules Direct For Program Guide Info DishNetwork (Provider 2)

- Tuner 2 Using Schedules Direct For Program Guide Info DishNetwork (Provider 3)

  • 1x Aeon_Labs_Z-Wave_Interface
  • 1x USB-UIRT + Zantech 2 headed IR emitter
  • 1x Dish Network ViP211k HD Receiver - remote code 1 - svideo/white/red tuner 1 on pvr500 controlled by USB-UIRT
  • 1x Dish Network ViP211k HD Receiver - remote code 2 - svideo/white/red tuner 2 on pvr500 controlled by USB-UIRT
  • 1x Rosewill MCE Remote
  • 1x Dell 20" FP2101 Flat Panel Monitor - Black

Media Director - Living Room

  • Case Apex MI-008 w/ 250watt power supply
  • Motherboard Zotac IONITX-B-E
  • 2GB Wintec RAM
  • 1x Mad Dog 16x Dual Layer DVD-RW
  • 1x Usbuirt + 3 headed IR emitter
  • 1x Gyration_GYR3101US Remote Control
  • 1x Rosewill MCE Remote
  • 1x Logitech One Remote - Set to MCE
  • 1x LG 50PV450 - USB>Serial>Null modem controlled from MD
  • 1x Dish Network ViP611k HD DVR - HDMI 2 on TV - USB-UIRT controlled (codeset 1)
  • 1x Panasonic DMP-BD65 BluRay Player - HDMI 3 on TV, USB-UIRT controlled
  • 1x Nintendo Wii - Component 1 on TV
  • 1x RCA STAV-4090 500watt 5.1 AV/Receiver - USB-UIRT controlled
  • UI2 - Masked - 1080p

Family Room Media Director

  • Compaq Evo
  • 1.8GHz Intel P4
  • 512MB Ram
  • LiteOn DVD-R (Player Only)
  • 1x USB-UIRT
  • Microsoft MCE Remote (Phillips remote)
  • RCA Stereo 4-Head VCR
  • 27" RCA Stereo CRT

Office Media Director

  • Case - Apevia X-Master AL|500
  • Biostar TA785 A2+
  • AMD Athlon II X2 - 255 AM3
  • 2G Kingston
  • EVGA 9600GSO 1.5G
  • 1x 500G Seagate SATA

House Floorplan

My Floorplan (Thanks bmac2!!) House-final.png

Network Setup

  • Wildblue Satellite Internet, connected to Core via 3Com 10/100 PCI card (eth1)
  • Realtek On-Board 10/100/1000 (eth0) connected to
  • Trendnet Gigabit Ethernet Switch connected to
  • 4 MD's
  • Linksys WRT100 Wireless Router (echobase - center of house)
  • Netgear Wireless G AP (echo1 - east side of house)
  • Netgear Wireless G AP (echo2 - west side of house)