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General => Users => Topic started by: Ritmo2k on January 19, 2009, 05:08:35 pm
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I am heading over to our local AV store to look at what devices they offer w/ eth or rs232 support for a new house so that it will all be controlled with LinuxMCE.
The wiki's section, http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Have_LinuxMCE_automatically_control_the_TV_and_Stereo (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Have_LinuxMCE_automatically_control_the_TV_and_Stereo) suggests it's all automatic but not having any devices like this I am not sure what to expect or choose.
RS232 is obvious and detailed here in http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AV_Devices (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AV_Devices)
Ethernet has me a bit curious, http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Plug%26play (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Plug%26play) suggests it correlates by mac address so how does one perform the initial pairing? Do I need to know the mac address before hand?
Finally, does anyone have any reco's for manufactures to look for that have decent ethernet controlled devices?
Thanks!
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I am heading over to our local AV store to look at what devices they offer w/ eth or rs232 support for a new house so that it will all be controlled with LinuxMCE.
The wiki's section, http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Have_LinuxMCE_automatically_control_the_TV_and_Stereo (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Have_LinuxMCE_automatically_control_the_TV_and_Stereo) suggests it's all automatic but not having any devices like this I am not sure what to expect or choose.
RS232 is obvious and detailed here in http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AV_Devices (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/AV_Devices)
Ethernet has me a bit curious, http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Plug%26play (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Plug%26play) suggests it correlates by mac address so how does one perform the initial pairing? Do I need to know the mac address before hand?
Finally, does anyone have any reco's for manufactures to look for that have decent ethernet controlled devices?
Thanks!
Ethernet-controlled devices do use MAC address for identification. This is set in the device template definition. Typically, a range is set based on a manufacturer's assigned MAC address range. This gets a bit tricky when using devices from manufacturers that make more than one device used with LMCE (Roku for example). You can always tailor your range if you'd like, however.
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Appreciate the reply. So if I had 5 tv's for example whose only difference in mac address was the last octet, ab, ac, etc... what kind of issues should I expect?
Thanks!
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The MAC addresses will all be in the manufacturer's range but unique. That is what you want. The pnp system will detect them all as the correct device/model and create a device based on the template you design. And because they are all unique, it will realise that they are different devices and create a new device based on the same template each time. You then just configure the room etc..