nosebreaker,

Any particular reason you have half your network external and half internal?

I used to be set up like this but now I just have everything on the internal network and let my core rule.  it means you would be able to get rid of your second wifi access point at the very least. 

Does your WIFI Bridge work well?  I had a Linksys WGA54G set up like this, it worked OK but sometimes it would lose connection but at the time I was having a few problems.  I should try this again.  Perhaps between us we should create a WIKI page explaining how to set these two devices up and experiences.  Perhaps a new category - Wireless or Wifi bridge within the Network category

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Answers:

1.  Like rednus said switches do not have WAN ports.  If you mean a Router configured as a switch - then it depends on the device, newer Linksys WRT54G's when configured as a switch convert the WAN port to a LAN port and therefore you will have 5 LAN ports.  Older ones (like mine) do not and therefore only 4 ports are usable as a switch.  It will work if you connect to the LAN port, It may work if you connect to the WAN port.  I would suggest getting it working with LAN port before even atempting to use the WAN port.

2.  I created a WIKI specific to the Linksys WRT54G (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Linksys_WRT54G).  In general you need to do the following:

a.  Disable the firewall
b.  change the local IP adress to something within the Core's Range
c.  re-logon to the new IP address
d.  Disable the DHCP server

do them in order.  see the wiki page for more details.

If you do want to just buy a switch, I bought 2 x D-Link DGS-2205 5-port 10/100/1000 Desktop Switch from Amazon for $25 each (after rebates)

Thom,

I was just suggesting trying it before spending on an expensive mic.  Like I said I do not hear echo with my setup.  maybe the Dell or my core (Audigy 2ZS) have echo cancellation but I use the Dell with skype and Tesco Softphone on XP all the time without a head set just talking to the built in mic and listening to the built in speakers.

A 10 min trial with a borrowed or very cheap mic (the mic on my core was 2.00GBP)

Thanks,

So I was wondering do I just have to plug mic in mic port (jack header) and thats it?

That works for me, some have said they have echoing or feedback but when I use a regular mic plugged into the mic port (not even a good one) my intercom works great.  The MD the intercom is talking to has a built in microphone (Dell Latitude D620) and neither has feedback as long as they are in different rooms (i.e can't hear each other)

You may have to experiment with mic gain or boost in ALSAMIXER

[For the TS820 (available from Techstyle UK Ltd. www.techstyleuk.co.ukBTW)]

I use a TS820 http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/TS820 and a Gyration Ultra Mouse (which I found in a trash can at work last week - Nice).  They are both RF and Plug and Play for the Left and Right mouse buttons only.  Left is accept/select and right is cancel.  So I had the same problem as others - when watching a movie I could not get the menu back up do anything.  So I did the following:

For the TS820 (available from Techstyle UK Ltd. www.techstyleuk.co.ukBTW)

Goto the KDE desktop, at a console window I typed 'xev' and enter.  a small box comes up, I moved the cursor into the box.  Press the buttons that do not work, look at the console for the output "Keycode XXX". and write down what they are.

I then adapted the instructions on http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Using_the_Gyration_Remote_GYR3101US_%28Non-Fiire_Chief%29 changing out the keycodes for the ones from this device.

Now the TS820 has Accept/Select, Cancel, Menu (F7), Ambience (F8), Channel/Chapter FFWD/RWD/PAUSE menu (F6) and as a bonus, page up/page down (on the side) will work as scrolling for the media menus.


For the Gyration Ultra Mouse

Goto the KDE desktop, at a console window I typed 'xev' and enter.  a small box comes up, I moved the cursor into the box.  Press the buttons that do not work, look at the console for the output "ButtonPress event, .... button X". and write down what they are.

I followed the directions in this wiki page for setting up the extra buttons http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/Use_Additional_Mouse_Buttons

The Gyration Ultra Mouse has only three buttons so I set up the middle button as F7

I will create a WIKI page for the Gyration Ultra Mouse and update the Wiki page for the TS820 soon

Also we are out of stock of the TS820, more are due in in 2-3 wks

or,

you can take a boo at Techstyle's wiki for grub pxe booting http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/GRUB_PXE_network_boot

Cheers.

That is not mine.  I have been working on a gPXE version (from http://rom-o-matic.net/) and will add a Wiki page when I have all the info and a few mins to write it.

Donpaul,

Good work, the script works great!!

All,

1) The message caller hear when voicemail picks up is very simple - please leave a message after the tone.  I don't need to add a complex menu system but how do I change that message to one I have uploaded to the 'system recordings' page?

2) (Minor) Is it possible to get the e-mail sent from the name on the account instead of 'Asterisk PBX'?  When the account was entered into the script the 'full name' was asked for but when the mail arrives it comes from Asterisk.  Also is it possible to edit the standard e-mail from Asterisk?

Thanks

The solution works perfectly and the drives are fully specified as they appear on the system.  Unfortunately my script doesn't work.

Every time I reboot I have to redo this.  I will be getting back to this soon and looking at some different scripts to check my syntax.

any help would be appreciated.

Is there an option in the bios to enable a PXE boot rom?  I may be wrong but I think it is unusual for a Mobo without an onboard NIC to have a PXE boot ROM.  The motherboard may allow you to select boot from LAN but without a PXE boot rom it will not do this, the PCI Nic may have one but it is unlikely.  There are a couple of ways around this:

1.  to load up grub from another piece of media. - not easy if you are not that familiar with Linux, if you are: http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/GRUB_PXE_network_boot
2.  see http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7930.0 or http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6297.0 to try using gPXE it is quite straight forward if you have a CD rom in this machine and can burn a CD using your favorite windows program to burn an .ISO file.

Good Luck

In the case of a power failure and Internet connection cut (cable or DSL) then you would be dead unless you had (as stated earlier) a UPS.  With a UPS you could keep the core on but any IP cameras and USB cameras connected to the MD's would be dead.  Most Z-wave PIR's and Door sensors are battery powered and as long as your Z-wave dongle was on the core your Z-wave sensors would work.  So the sensing half of the security system would work if you used z-wave.

How do you alert somebody?

With no Phone line neither the conventional or LMCE can make calls out

if you had a conventional alarm, in most cases, it would power up the siren and alert the neighbors even without any sensors being tripped.  More advanced ones would wait for a sensor to be tripped but would power up the siren once this happens.

So LinuxMCE would be as good as a conventional system with the addition of a Z-wave siren under these conditions and well in advanced of most when power was on.

I have tried searching for a Z-wave siren and came up with nothing.  You could make something if you could find a 6-12v z-wave relay, a regular siren ($15 ish) and a 9v battery.  A fun project me thinks

What commands/steps did you take to get from the downloading of the .dsk file to a working floppy disk boot?  I will then add this when I create the WIKI page for this

I split off the thread to http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=7930.0 if you want to talk about gPXE

This thread is a continuation of http://forum.linuxmce.org/index.php?topic=6297.0 where the thread split.

I have been trying to find an easier way to PXE boot an MD that does not have a PXE Boot ROM.  I have been trying to make it easier than as described on the WIKI http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/GRUB_PXE_network_boot for those who are not as familiar with Linux or Grub.

The advantage here is that the website (http://rom-o-matic.net/) will spit out a pre-configured image for your particular NIC.

I have successfully downloaded an ISO file which I have burnt to CD and booted a test machine with.  I have been trying to do this onto a USB memory stick but so far have been unsuccessful.

I will add a WIKI page for the success with the CD and then add to it when the USB Memory stick is working

I followed the instructions on http://rom-o-matic.net/ and downloaded a boot ROM for my NIC

I then (sort of) followed the instructions for a USB Key from http://etherboot.org/wiki/removable 

such that I already had the rom so did not need to use the 'make' command

I used the 'dd' command to transfer the image to the USB Key but got an error message when trying to boot from it.

I was hoping to find an easier way than the Wiki page explaining how to do this with grub for those of us that are not so Linux familiar.  I need to do some more work and maybe I should take this to a separate thread