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Developers / Re: Grid of lighting scenarios as default for Orbiter

« on: October 28, 2008, 11:14:10 am »

To be nit-picking:

You need LinuxMCE to control your equipment. LinuxMCE needs to know the media devices are connected to a specific MD. And LinuxMCE needs to know how to turn on and off those devices. This can be done by using the Generic Serial Device, which, other than the name implies, can control stuff using RS-232, InfraRed, and system commands.

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Grid of lighting scenarios as default for Orbiter

« on: October 28, 2008, 10:11:41 am »

It would be nice to have some functionality whereby if no media has been watched for XX minutes then the amps, active subs etc are turned off.

This is part of the regular LinuxMCE setup. It happens automatically. 15 minutes after the last media is played, all my audio and video devices are turned off

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Grid of lighting scenarios as default for Orbiter

« on: October 27, 2008, 09:00:04 am »

I know, but I'm using X10, not IR to turn my amps on and off. So no solution for this? Would be great if you could specify an X10 device as the power switch for your amps!

Unfortunately, there is currently no provision to have an on/off switch in front of any of the AV devices. But we had this discussion already, it ain't an easy task though.

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Can I make scenario to show something on Orbiter and get back to prev screen ?

« on: October 26, 2008, 09:29:27 pm »

I have no idea, but I would try starting with HADesigner (or QuickDesigner which, imho, is easier to work with), and see what kind of DesignObj exists, and see if you can call any of those from your scenario and see what happens.

rgds
Oliver

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: RAID Alerting

« on: October 26, 2008, 09:06:59 pm »

Doesn't an email alert with mdadm conf already work?

rgds
Oliver (Who does not want to break his RAID to test if the alert really works)

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Feature requests & roadmap / Re: Usning Linux mce as a basic operating system for complete computer illiterates

« on: October 26, 2008, 09:05:04 pm »

Have a look at the Linux distros that come with the Netbooks.

LinuxMCE is not what you want.

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Can I make scenario to show something on Orbiter and get back to prev screen ?

« on: October 26, 2008, 11:26:52 am »

bulek,

instead of going to a screen, you mind want to look into Popups. They go away automatically, afaik.

rgds
Oliver

PS: I do not know, if that works from the scenarios, but it does work just fine from the Designer

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Users / Re: Usage of Telecom

« on: October 25, 2008, 03:46:15 pm »

dlewis,

thank you for your pointers. Especially the part with sip_nat.conf is clearly described in the wiki

As this is ONLY relevant for calls leaving your network, and calls coming into your network, I don't think that SCCP is relevant here. At least I don't know an ITP providing SCCP services.

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Grid of lighting scenarios as default for Orbiter

« on: October 25, 2008, 03:43:19 pm »

chris,

the audio kit will not get turned on, when you turn on the MD. The audio kit should get automatically turned on, when you need the audio output. If you have your AV gear correctly related to your MD that should happen automagically (and it does do for me ).

This is the beauty of LinuxMCE.

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Can I make scenario to show something on Orbiter and get back to prev screen ?

« on: October 25, 2008, 12:10:12 pm »

Hello bulek,

I'd like to make event handlers for motion sensors outside of the house.
I'd like to switch Orbiter to show coresponding camera (easy done with goto screen command), wait for 30 secs (I guess delay command), but then I'd like to switch back to whatever screen Orbiter was showing...

what do you want to achieve that is currently not included in the standard security camera handling?

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Re: Usage of Telecom

« on: October 25, 2008, 10:29:31 am »

1. How do i integrate faxes? Asterisk seems to be capable of this, but im learning it slowly as im doing a lot a once.

There are a couple of ways. hylafax is one way, recvfax is another project tightly integrated with Asterisk. How ever, keep in mind, if you receive your calls over VoIP, you won't have much success with faxes.

2. Changing the default message to one you record / upload. I have tried this multiple times, but it appears broken. Italics are there because im more than likely missing something.

How did you try to record new greetings, and what greetings are these?

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: How to get a message in that pop-up status window

« on: October 24, 2008, 09:37:47 pm »

Could you put the needed pop3 php code someplace where one does not need to be registered?

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Re: Usage of Telecom

« on: October 24, 2008, 06:20:15 pm »

[..]As of now, I attach a Phoenix Solo USB conference mic to each media director, and use that as my phone, dialing from the orbiter as appropriately.

Did you modify the SimplePhone app to support the USB mic?

rgds
Oliver

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Developers / Re: Grid of lighting scenarios as default for Orbiter

« on: October 24, 2008, 11:17:40 am »

chris,

another idea is, to "recycle" the other button groups on the main menu. Instead of having climate scenarios there, put some lighting scenarios in there. Same with media.

Nice duct-tape solution

rgds
Oliver

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Users / Usage of Telecom

« on: October 24, 2008, 11:04:47 am »

I wonder how many people are using the telecom (asterisk) part of LinuxMCE. How do you like it? Does your HDD fill up with all your old mailbox messages, or do you clean them out.

Inquisitive minds want to know.

Thanks

rgds
Oliver