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Users / Re: Ripping music and video from CD and DVD for future LinuxMCE system

« on: February 24, 2011, 03:01:48 am »

joshpond: Looks interesting. I will definately take a look at this - What are the major benefits of this compared to other NAS's?

Price, you can add (from memory) 22 hdds plus one parity so you get good storage for your value. (ie RAID 5 has about 33% loss) unRAID only gives 1 hdd loss.
The drawback of this is that writes are slow, around 30-40 MB/s but reads are fine (which is what you want for media)
You can build from pc parts, even old ones.
Cost is pretty good for the amount of storage.
Very good community support and forum.

Josh

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Users / Re: Ripping music and video from CD and DVD for future LinuxMCE system

« on: February 23, 2011, 04:16:41 am »

I use unRAID as a NAS.
www.lime-technology.com
You can add hdds with parity. Good value, upto 48TB storage at the moment is possible.

Josh

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Users / Re: Pad Orbiter and WPA2

« on: February 21, 2011, 06:08:37 am »

Okay update for all who are interested.

To get WPA2 security on the Webdt 366 I purchased a pcmcia card (EDUP brand) off ebay. Pretty cheap and plentiful. It uses a Ralink RT2500 chip which if you search there website is also in a lot of other cards from asus, gigabyte and a whole lot of no name brand ones.

Card plugs in but does stick out of the top as it doesn't use an external antenna.

Upon boot up, enter terminal

Code: [Select]

lspciShould show RT2500 loaded.

edit and copy the interfaces file as a backup
I used nano but pick your poison

Code: [Select]

cd /etc/network
cp interfaces interfaces.old
nano interfaces

Edit the interfaces file as per this website
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834
My core was set at 192.168.1.254
NOT the recommended 192.168.80.1
Also most of my IP addresses are static, hence the static not DHCP setting.

I removed the eth0 line and started there.
Mine is listed in the first post.
Ping works but I have to wait for a core to test.

Josh

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Users / Re: Pad Orbiter and WPA2

« on: February 19, 2011, 09:50:29 pm »

Okay, Pretty stupid, but it all works now. I changed a setting on mu wireless AP and when saving the changes froze so nothing was connecting. A reboot of the AP solved the issue.

I'll post a write up when I get some time but essentially the PCMCIA card is pretty much plug and play and cheap too. It does stick out the top of the webdt about 2.5cm.

I'll have to wait for my motherboard to come back for my core and I'll give it a go then but pinging works so far.

Josh

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Users / Pad Orbiter and WPA2

« on: February 17, 2011, 02:50:58 pm »

***** See post 3 for how to setup *******

Hi all,

First off a bit of a noob so basically googled my way through this but want to see if I'm on the right track or not.

WebDt 360, just installed padobiter but not fully configured as no core.

Purchased these cheap PCMCIA cards off ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/54Mbps-Wireless-PCMCIA-WiFi-802-11G-2-4G-LAN-PC-Card-/250519203650?pt=AU_Networking&hash=item3a541baf42
They are basically a RT2500 chip wireless card which is supported by linux.
The card when plugged in shows up under lspci as the RT2500
Now the assumptions begin:
I can't use iwconfig to setup the wlan0 as it doesn't support wpa2
I've updated wpasupplicant and the needed dependencies.
edited my /etc/network/interfaces to look like that recommended by:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834

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auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet static
address 192.168.1.55
gateway 192.168.1.254
broadcast 192.168.1.255
netmask 255.255.255.0
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid <your_essid>
wpa-ap-scan 1
wpa-proto RSN
wpa-pairwise CCMP
wpa-group CCMP
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK
wpa-psk <your_hex_key>NOTE: my gateway is the router set at 192.168.1.254 (no core) and essid broadcast.
ifup wlan0

Is the debian interfaces setup the same as ubuntu?
Should this work in theory?
I tried ping 192.168.1.1 (my NAS) and no reply
Am I better off just waiting for my core to come back before trying all this.
Is it even possible or am I barking up the wrong tree and wasting my time.

Thanks Josh

Sorry if there are any errors here, it is getting very late and the old eyes are struggling.

PS what is the exact keystrokes to get from the splash to the terminal. I press CTRL + C +T but all I get is the cursor cross becoming a square. I then mash 1 and enter and sometimes the terminal comes up. It does say no managed window in the corner.

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Users / Re: Multi-room Audio - a tad confused

« on: February 09, 2011, 07:06:13 pm »

A little bit different, but if all you want is background music what you have picked should be fine. Not running LMCe at work but run these ceiling speakers
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=AX3550&keywords=ceiling+speaker&form=KEYWORD
with this amp
http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=AA0472&keywords=power+amplifier&form=KEYWORD

They won't ship overseas but probably similar to what you are looking at and it all works fine so I think a lower powered amp and cheap speakers do work fine.

Josh

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Users / Re: two md motherboards, which one?

« on: February 07, 2011, 08:45:21 am »

Thanks Richard,

Both are cooled by heat sink, didn't look like there was a fan on either, hence me picking them.

Good to know that both go, I think I'll get the one that is the easiest. I'll have to wait for my core's motherboard to come back first.

thanks Josh

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Users / Re: two md motherboards, which one?

« on: February 07, 2011, 02:44:25 am »

Thanks,

The Asus board seems a better option and not really more expensive too.

What sort of ram are you running in it. I found somewhere saying only ddr3-800 so-dimm but it may run 1333/1600 ddr3?

Josh

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Users / two md motherboards, which one?

« on: February 06, 2011, 11:31:45 pm »

Hi all,

I've been doing some searching through the wiki and the forum here and have narrowed it down to this:

I'd like to be able to watch TV (will have hdhomerun with twin HD tuners) and play music from core. Maybe later on if possible usb-rs232 cables to control HT gear otherwise I'll get a GC. I play all video through popcorn hours so won't need too much in that department but would like to be able to play back 1080i as that is the max I believe for Australian free to air tv although 1080p is a nice option to have.

It is either:
ZOTAC ION [IONITX-A-C], ATOM N330 DUAL CORE ITX MB
Asus AT5IONT-I, Intel Atom D525/Intel NM10 Chipset/ITX

From what I read, the Zotac (similar boards) have worked but can't find info on this board and the Asus one is a lot newer. The Asus seems to have a newer Nvidia ION chipset and is a faster dual core. (N330 vs D525) Both passively cooled. The Asus has 512MB dedicated video memory.

Has anyone tried either or have anything to add?

Thanks Josh

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Users / Re: Cheap network camera

« on: February 01, 2011, 12:59:46 pm »

That looks like the knock off of the foscam ip cameras. In the wiki they are written up as working. I've bought one of the newer foscam on ebay but didn't manage to get it going before my motherboard died.

Josh

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Users / Re: Softsqueeze/md versus squeezebox duet

« on: January 30, 2011, 07:55:40 am »

Thanks Tim.

I thought of that except the core was going to go in the pantry and the speakers are wired to the home theater where I have an amp capable of a/b.

There in lies the dilemma. I;m probably leaning towards the duet at this stage but....

Thanks Josh

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Users / Softsqueeze/md versus squeezebox duet

« on: January 29, 2011, 09:45:28 pm »

Hi all,

I had a core (mobo died so waiting for a new one) that stored all my audio files and was running as a DHCP only. (My videos are on a NAS running through popcorn hours)

I have 2 speakers wired outside and am now tossing up adding either a squeezebox duet/amp to power them versus an md/amp to power them.

Pros and Cons? Cost about the same?

SB:
Faster start up
Better stability/reliability/WAF

MD:
Allows other functions like TV
Requires boot up time

What does everyone think? If the MD really provides more then why do people get squeezebox duets/touches?
Possibly provides RS232 port to control amp

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Users / Re: WebDT security and network question

« on: January 14, 2011, 10:43:17 pm »

Thanks Zim.

If there isn't a big difference between running weborbiter versus padorbiter I might try a cheap wireless card off ebay first.

Thanks Josh

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Users / Re: PLCBUS/Z wave and rocker switches

« on: January 14, 2011, 10:26:22 pm »

Thanks Phil and Hari,

The flickering would have a low WAF so z wave may be the better option. I think I might wait for a bit longer until there are a few more z wave options in Australia too or just start with one or two switches in the theater room.

Thanks Josh

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Users / Re: WebDT security and network question

« on: January 13, 2011, 09:10:22 pm »

Mine are currently running Win CE. How did you get a copy of XPe?

What would be the differences of running a win installation and using Weborbiter as opposed to flashing it with the padorbiter software?

Thanks Josh