- Web Interface
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewers
- Acknowledgments
- Adding to Your Home
- Addressing
- Administering Conduits
- Always On
- Arduino Hardware
- Arduino Software
- Assigning Addresses
- Asterisk
- Audio Cabling
- Automation with Linux
- AV Distribution
- Backups
- Bandwidth Capabilities
- Bearskin Compatibility
- Building the Rack
- C
- Calendar
- Cassette Tapes and Vinyl
- Communication with a PC
- Compact Disc
- Computer Names
- Concepts
- Conclusion - 2 3 4 5 6 7
- Conduits
- Configuration
- Contents
- Contents at a Glance
- Control
- Control Hubs
- Controlling Appliances - 2
- Controlling Lights
- CPU Power
- Creating a Server
- Creating Audio Outputs
- Creating Modes
- Custom Embedded
- Custom Hardware
- Custom Numbers and APIs
- D
- Data Through APIs
- Determining the Best Room
- Developing on the Slug
- Device Abstractions
- Disk Space
- Distribution
- E
- Emprex ME1
- Error Handling
- Example The Arduino Welcome
- Existing Applets
- Extra Functionality
- F
- Fully Automated
- G
- General Considerations
- H
- Hacking Game Consoles
- Handheld Transmitter Modules
- Handling Protocols
- Hauppauge MediaMVP
- Hiding Your Home
- Humans Talk Computers Talk
- I
- Idle
- Index
- Info
- Input Conduits Receiving Messages
- Installation and Setup
- Integration of Technologies
- InWall Transmitter Modules
- Irrfir Gateways
- Issues with Movies
- Just Linux
- L
- Legalities
- Linksys NSLU2
- Linux Users Are Not HA Users
- Local Control
- Local Reporting
- M
- Making Things Do Stuff
- Matrix Switchers
- Media Systems
- MediaMVP Media Center
- Microsoft Xbox
- Minerva
- Monexec
- MythTV
- N
- Necessary Considerations
- Negative Effects
- Network Services
- Networking Considerations
- News
- Note Always buy the case from the same dealer as the machine so you can ensure they will fit together These cases are considerably more expensive that desktop cases and therefore a costly mistake
- Note Be aware that some media players will display the full URL including login credentials when streaming music from such a site
- Note Dont pack DIN rails too closely to each other because the heat can induce problems in operation The recommended minimum separation is 20mm
- Note If the majority of your source media is stored on a hard drive then you probably wont need a matrix switcher at all since it can be transmitted by Cat5 to small Linuxbased head units using softwarestreaming solutions such as VLC
- Note If you do have access to the Xbox software then you can use the IR remote control that is supplied with the Microsoft DVD Playback Kit with XBMC
- Note It is possible to mimic the shutdown functionality of a UPS by using heyu to monitor the power lines and if it sees two or more lights going off at the same time trigger a shutdown But this method is liable to false positives and doesnt work during d
- Note Old Bluetooth headsets and handsfree units were both expensive and bulky They are now however much cheaper and can provide a sneaky way of adding wireless remote microphones throughout the house for capturing voice commands or security monitoring
- Note On first glance it appears wasteful for NAS1 to connect to Node0 only to be connected back to NAS1 but to scale up effectively provide all media in a unified environment and support dynamic changes in the media architecture this is the best way to do
- Note Problems with humidity also occur when there are brusque changes in temperature such as when a machine is brought in from the cold In this case leave it to naturally reach room temperature before switching on
- Note Pull the longest cable runs first from the drum Whats left will suffice for shorter runs between machines and routers
- Note Some installations also require you to create a forward file containing the single line usrbinprocmail with quotes in order to trigger Procmail This is when Procmail is not your local mail delivery agent
- Note Some models of Arduino such as the Mega have three additional serial ports addressable as SeriaM Serial2 and Serial3
- Note Sometimes a password is required for a WOL command to be accepted This is set in the BIOS of the particular machine and passed as an argument to etherwake
- Note Subversion stores its own work files inside the current directory meaning they will each be littered with svn folders This is only a mild nuisance for end users but can cause bigger problems when they appear in system configuration folders such as et
- Note The MediaMVP device itself only has hardware to output a standarddefinition image If youve been ripping your Bluray discs as HD files then you will need to use VLC to transcode them into SD
- Note There are many applications that block content for kidsafe viewing But as parenting books tell you or as any parent knows you cant solve these problems entirely by technology because it is not really a technological problem
- Note With most UPS units the power sockets will be divided between those that are powered in the event of an outage and those that arent All sockets are generally protected against surges
- Note You can also use a pressure mat to determine whether youve gotten out of bed after your alarm has gone off and you can use the act of leaving the bedroom as a means to stop the alarm from sounding
- Note You can ensure good access by not filling the entire Node0 space with technology This also ensures theres space left for new kit as you acquire them
- Note You can extend the dictation program we created in Chapter 2 by using the voice recognition macro to start and stop recording
- Note You will always need to add new cables
- Occasional Control with At
- Other Access Points
- Other Input Controllers
- Other Software
- Output Conduits Transmission
- Over the Aerial Cable
- Overclocking
- Overview
- P
- Piecemeal Samples
- Play Station - 2
- Power Consumption
- Preparing a Filesystem
- Preparing a Machine
- Preparing a Master Server
- Preparing Email in Linux
- Primary Options
- Private Data
- Rack Mount
- Radio
- Reading Analog Inputs
- Receiving Messages
- Relay Control
- Remote Voice Control
- Remote Control Methods
- Retrieving Data Pull
- Rip As ISO
- Rip As Movie Files
- Road Traffic
- Router
- Screen Scraping
- Secure Server
- Security Issues
- Sending Analog Outputs
- Sending Digital Outputs
- Server Control
- Server Extensibility
- Server Software
- Servers
- Simple Case
- Skype
- SlugOS
- Sms - 2 3
- Sony Play Station
- Sound
- Splitting and Merging
- Squeezebox
- Standard Case
- Status
- Switching
- T
- The Data Chain
- The Operating System
- The Physical Practicalities
- The Software
- The Teakettle An Example
- The Video Disk Recorder Project
- The Workings
- The Xtremer
- Tip You can ensure your laptop is fully charged by using the crontab to switch on an X10 module for at least an hour every night
- To
- Topology Ideas
- Types of Server
- Unslung
- Ups
- Ve
- Video Transcoding
- Virtual Sites
- Voice
- W
- Weather Reports
- Web Access
- Webmail
- Why Comms
- Window Alert
- Wired Network
- Wireless AV Distribution
- Wireless Cameras That Arent
- Wiring Looms
- X
- Xbox Media Center
- Your Own X10 Devices
- Zinc Between Web and Native