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Hahaha nice. I am working on a car install on one at the moment. Looking OK so far and 1/3 the price of a Mini.
Certainly as a stand-alone entertainment system it is beautiful, I can't imagine it would be anything less under Linux MCE

Thanks guys for the replies and the encouragement. I've had a quick look on the Mantis and as I suspected, it looks like the 7.1 upgrade will be a major. Also looks like it is gonna get me UI2 and blaster on the hardware I have already, so I think I will save the $200 or so on the nVidia card and use it for a Zwave unit instead once the upgrade comes.

I am currently running a Mac mini in-car system, so once the 7.1 upgrade gets here I think I am gonna change off Mac OS to Linux MCE and then I can get the car alarm monitored via the frontend onto the house system when it is parked at home. I think that might be a first! Hahahahha. I know I had the first Mac in a car here in Kiwiland - it rocks!

Looking forward to the new release.

I'l post as soon as I have any more luck with the peripherals and, of course, add to the Wiki once I am sure things are stable.

Many, many thanks to the coders and developers out there.

Hi Thom,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I guess I knew in my heart that this Intel chipset was gonna be a pain! Just hoping against hope, it comes standard on the Shuttle and at least on paper it is a decent card!

I am using the Hauppauge 150MCE pci card, and have only one slot spare on the MOBO, a PCI16 graphics slot. That's another pain with the small formfactor Shuttle express, but therein lies another story!

I am thinking of controlling the cable box with an IR blaster (the remote receiver has one with it)

Other specs:

Shuttle XPC Mini-ATX board with Intel G33 onboard
500Gb Hitachi SATA HDD
2Gb Kingston 2DDR RAM
Intel Core DUO Processor 2.4Gb

Cable TV via Telstra Clear Cable box on RCA connectors (S-video coming when I get a chance to buy the cable!)

Potentially Bluetooth Orbiter to Sony Ericsson phone if I can figure that out later (it is not Windoze phone or a symbian unfortunately)

Other frontends will have to connect via wireless at a later date once I find a decent USB wireless dongle that Ubuntu can see!


Cheers for the help guys, I still think this is an awesome project. I have seen plenty of Windoze "equivalents", but NOTHING like this!
Stoked that at least potentially I can get a decent media centre without infecting my network with Mr Gates's offerings

Presently running the hardware on Mythbuntu, but it is nowhere near as nice as MCE

First of all, what an awesome project!

The demo video is amazing! Finally a decent Media Centre, and under a Linux distro as well.

Now the gripes.

I am probably doing this all wrong, but there is no way I can get support for my Intel onboard G33 graphic chip with 3d and decent res, and the "standard IR remote that came with my hauppauge TV card is not recognised.

Also as we are in the dark ages here in NZ, I can't get the Cable TV box I am forced to use for decent reception to be recognised.

I was hoping to get the promised 7.1 compatible version this month, thinking that this may solve all my problems, but so far nothing. All I have is a rather expensive, although attractive paperweight on the desk.

Any ideas how I can resolve these issues?

I have googled until I am more confused than before!