I think that point is exactly the reverse... there are some rooms where using the TV's on-board speakers is adequate.

Yes, that applies to me.  No point in running expensive speakers/amp/source for listening to low-fi sources like streaming radio stations.

Thanks Thom.

I can think of rooms where I have ability to play low quality music on say TV speakers,   but then the other side of the room a device/speakers for higher quality music.  That would be handy for me.

Sounds a great piece of work.  When you get a spare moment I would be interested in what has changed from old to new N8x0 version,  as I use the old N8x0 version with my Dianemo S system right now, and most functions work just fine.

We only support the N800/N810 on Diablo so yes it would require a separate build to support the N900/Fremantle (we have never supported that device/OS release).

Phew, I did hang on to one N810, its a great form factor, and decent battery life.

Not sure on the mileage in offering N900 support,  a fantastic device, but struggled with battery life,  so in my view not best suited as a controller around the house.

Thanks both,  in all my reading of the wiki,  very odd I must have skipped that page.

Pretty clear now.

I 'get' the concept of 'Room' in that I can physically poke a bit of hardware that is located in a certain room.

Could someone explain to me what the term 'entertain areas'  means.

My simple view is a light switch/media playback device,  would apply only to the room it is in.

Perhaps an example would help me understand.

I confess to be a little confused by the wiki information, and wondering if its not related to my setup.

I have real hardware squeeze devices ( Duets/Controllers/Boom/Transporter ), and am ready to turn off my existing Logitech music server and move the function to my Dianemo server.

I can access the Logitech Media Server at my core ip address ( core.address:9000 )

I see in my Dianemo web admin page, under devices tree, under Core, 'Slim Server Streamer' (device template #53), and below that several entries for 'SqueezeBox Player' (template #58).

So should I just assign those SqueezeBox Players to the correct rooms/entertain areas?

The wiki - http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Dianemo_S#Adding_SqueezeSlave_Devices

Talks about device template #1964 :/


I guess also, once I make my dedicated devices work,  I would also want to add ability for some of my MM's to be squeezeslave players?

Add as Motion Wrapper,  the wiki covers it very well:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Monitor_surveillance_cameras#Adding_IP_Cameras_under_Motion_Wrapper

What I do not see in the manual for you IPCAM, is a link for a static image from your camera.

For example, my Axis cameras the link is : /axis-cgi/jpg/image.cgi   or my other cameras : /mjpg/video.mjpg

You need to figure that out for your camera.

Sorry for bothering you Andrew, now working fine.

I forwarded all ports from my router to 192.168.1.10

Then just setup the firewall on Dianemo.

Maybe some extra reboots/restarts of router/switch/dianemo helped this time.


Is the firewall in Dianemo/Linuxmce regarded as being secure?

I had some firewall/NAT rules setup in my router to support things like XBOX gaming and my FTP server.

Adding the Dianemo/LinuxMCE between these services and my router,  I wonder how (best) to set this up.

Internet provider >>> Router (NAT/Firewall) >>> LinuxMCE/Dianemo >>> Home network Services

My router is 192.168.1.1
Dianemo WAN 192.168.1.10
Dianemo LAN 192.168.0.1

LAN devices 192.168.0.x

Thanks chaps,  that was exactly the issue.

Sorted now.

Following the guides here:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Dianemo_S#ZWave_Devices

and here:

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/ZWave#SUC.2FSIS_Mode_.28recommended.29

I get to the part to add the Tricklestar Remote,  which fails, on the Tricklestar remote I get a RED light.

Have tried several times/reloads.  I made this work in the past,  and remember something odd about the process I had to do - maybe around the timing of the steps.

Sending any commands to the zwave device I get : RESP: Delivery failed

Thanks so much for the pointer.

Rebooted my internet router, rebooted the core, and all ok again.

Whilst adding some firewall rules, appeared to get a hang,  did a shutdown -r from console, and now at boot get as far as the flashing Dianemo logo.

dmesg output attached.

Anything I can check for more information?

I thought in the AV Wizard (after choosing resolution) there is a later screen where you can resize/reposition the image on the screen - did you not get to that screen?