LinuxMCE Forums
General => Installation issues => Topic started by: jeff.sadowski on May 03, 2007, 01:26:56 am
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Ok I saw a google video of Linux MCE vs Windows MCE and was kind of curious about what yall use for some of those options.
I was going to setup a few of the options I saw with bits and pieces I have.
specifically what do you guys use for
IR tranceiver?
Lighting control?
camera interfacing?
all of which was mentioned here
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4422887272477313460&q=linuxmce
I use IRtrans for a IR transmitting and receiving It understands lirc
but takes a bit to setup it is usb and I couldn't find any others on lircs site that where
I use heyu in conjunction with an CM11A module to control X10 devices
and I use
motion with a Logitech Orbit Camera to view video
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oh and by the way I plan on getting the items above working with a gumstix
http://gumstix.com
I think a gumstix is a little slow and small for a true multimedia application but i'll try it out
for my needs of a house monitoring and control
Also gumstix isn't x86 so it would be difficult working with anything that doesn't have source code.
I also am curious on the tuner for the Linux MCE?
I just found a usb powered hd tv tuner that works in linux and had to buy.
Its a Pinnacle HDTV tuner and works good. It uses the em28xx driver :-)
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oh temperature control?
What do I need for this?
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for temperature control use lm-sensors.
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not quite the temperature control I wanted. I was talking the house thermostat not the computer itself.