you have to put in your browser the address 192.168.80.130 or whatever you have set it to and then type in 'admin' as the password leaving the username blank.  now carry on with 5.

I guess as 3 and 5 are on the same page you could change them both and then save only after 5.

to reset to default hold in the reset button for 15 seconds and then start a fresh

I have tried to put gPXE on a USB stick to get around an MD without a PXE Boot ROM but was unsuccessful.  I will be continueing this effort once I get time.  I would like to see a guide to doing this as a file is downloadable from the gPXE website with the correct NIC driver already setup.

Not sure about MK but in Chelmsford there is Convergent Home Technologies.  They sell a number of devices for use as MD's take a look at their page on the Wiki

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Convergent_Home_Technologies

Sure, depends what you mean by bulk?  send me an e-mail. sales@techstyleuk.co.uk

My company sells a couple of Z-Wave components that have been approved with LMCE

www.techstyleuk.co.uk follow the home automation link

We do a window/door sensor and a PIR

Everything looks good with your setup, you appear to have your interfaces switched (eth1 =External eth0 = Internal) but that really doesn't matter.

It looks like you have your linksys router between the cable modem and Core:

Cable Modem ==> Linksys Router ==> Core

it appears that the external core adapter is on 192.168.1.102 from the router and the gateway is 192.168.1.1 this the default for the gateway on your router.

therefore in your case, eth1 is the one connected to your router and eth0 is the one that should be connected to the switch then MD's - follow the cables and identify which is which.

to check if the internal network is working correctly attach a windows PC to the internal network where an MD would go then goto 'start' --> 'run' then type 'cmd' and hit enter. 

When the dos prompt comes up type 'ipconfig /all' and hit enter.

Look for the connection listed as 'Ethernet Adapter Local Area Connection' under IP address it should say 192.168.80.XXX and in the Gateway, DHCP server and DNS servers should include 192.168.80.1.

You should be able to get internet access on both the core and the internal machine.  If you cannot get access power cycle everything.

we can look into the MD not booting once we have confirmed your internal network is working right

login to the web admin page - goto the 'files and media' drop down click on 'media files sync'

navigate to the 'audio' directory confirm that your audio is there.  If it is there and black text then it is not in the database, if the text is green then it is in the database and should show up.



Hit the 'Resynchronize' button and let it run it may take some time.  This should go and find media in this directory and any sub directories but may take a while.

Speedy,

I used to have my network as you suggest - See the UK network setup section of my user page on the wiki - http://wiki.linuxmce.com/index.php/User:Techstyle.  this was mainly for ease of cable routing rather than any positive reason

However, since then I have reconfigured my Network (see the US network setup Section of my user page) and as Thom says it really does work more smoothly.  I used to have problems with not being able to access media on my windows PC's on the network - windows does a terrible job of managing shares.  Also whenever I reset the core it would acquire a IP address from the router that was not neccesarily the same as before therefore the webadmin page address would change from the external network and non of my favorites would work.  same goes for running the web version of orbiter.

On your second point

How did you conclude it was your Core NIC not being recognized? 

There are a number of possibilities - your second NIC is not compatible or is it the NIC in the media director or Media Director not having a PXE boot rom.

My knowledge of what it would say if the second NIC is not compatible is limited but I would think the table on the Network page (shown below) would be missing numbers in the eth1 section

EXTERNAL_IFACE eth0
EXTERNAL_MAC 00:1D:7D:XX:XX:XX
EXTERNAL_IP XX.XX.XX.169
EXTERNAL_NETMASK 255.255.254.0
EXTERNAL_DHCP 1
INTERNAL_IFACE eth1
INTERNAL_MAC 00:1A:92:XX:XX:XX
INTERNAL_IP 192.168.80.1
INTERNAL_NETMASK 255.255.255.0
GATEWAY XX.XX.XX.1
DNS1 XX.XX.X.10
DNS2 XX.XX.X.11

if it isn't you could always hit the swap interfaces button and see if you have internet access on the core.

in the past I have had more trouble getting MD's to work than the second NIC in the core, but I may have been lucky.

if this doesn't help send us details of your NIC

I have a Linksys WRT54G configured as a switch.  The devices are different but I think the settings are very similar.  The instructions should be followed in order and as follows:

1.  Connect directly to the router and log on (default IP is 192.168.1.1, leave the username blank and type 'admin' in the password field)

2.  Go to the Security page and disable the firewall (disable all items in the 'block WAN requests' section) - hit the save settings button

3.  Go to 'Setup' page and change the local IP adress to something within the Core's Range.  The Default range for a LMCE Core is 192.168.80.2 to 192.168.90.128 for Pluto Devices and 192.168.80.129 to 192.168.80.254 for non-pluto devices.  set the router's local IP to be in the non-Pluto range - mine is 192.168.80.130. - Again Save Settings

4.  you will now have to re-logon to the new IP address (192.168.80.130 for me). 

5.  On the setup page again, below the local IP address, Disable the DHCP server - Save Settings.

Reconnect the device to the Eth1 port on the core (to a LAN port not the WAN port) and power cycle it and you are all set.

Hope this helps

I have some of the EASY CAP devices and would like to get this working.  If a developer would like to get this working I will provide the one free of charge.  This device is inexpensive and I think this would be a good addition to the project.

I have the OS on a 200GB IDE drive and then a 450Gb SATAII and a 1TB SATAII for storage - those DVD's take up lots of space!!

That script doesn't seem to work

any suggestions?

Andrew, or someone else,

A related question, is it OK to add repos to a MD or use Adept on an MD?

Thanks,
Jason

Really,

I have noticed that it is specific to Manchester number by the 161, but how do you mean it is speciific to dailing the UK from the US.  Tesco Internet phone is all UK numbers and I think the dial plan means the following:

999 (emergency number UK)
0044|0+. (if the number dialed is 0044 then add a 0 to the area code and disregard the 0044)
00ZXXXXXXXXXX (international numbers are 10 digits with 00 and a non-zero at the start - not sure what hapens here if you tried to dial Germany whcih is 49, so I may need to edit this)
161+XXXXXXX (161 is Manchester, UK, so this would need to be specific to the user)

can you provide some help to get it right for all users and less specific.

The real change here is in the 'qualify=60&no' because without this the phone ceases to work after 60 seconds:

'when asterisk registers itself with Tesco, one of the parameters that gets sent back is the length of time between registration refreshes (which lets Tesco know that I'm still online and listening). If asterisk doesn't recieve that parameter back, it assumes that it should refresh every 60 seconds. However, Tesco send back a value of 0.  A side effect of getting sent a refresh value of 0 is that Asterisk never sends out a registration refresh request, so Tesco assumes that we've gone offline.'

Thanks Colin,
Jason

this is a quote from http://scotsvoiplog.blogspot.com/2006/08/tescos-voip-asterisk.html

I have created a page on the Wiki for users of Tesco Internet Phone.

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Tesco_Internet_Phone

Hope it helps,
Jason