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Hello Christian,

yes, you can control leds using the Bticino device F413 (0-10V Dimmer).

Regards
Johannes

Hi Christian,

in my home I use this Bussystem http://www.international.bticino.com/webInternational/techguide/searchtechguide/detail.page?uri=/international/en_US/browser/xml/techguide/techguide_59.xml.

It works wired and wireless and it is cheaper than KNX. In my home, I can control lights, heating and a multiroom audio system. the Bussystem is connected to the ethernet. So I can control the Bussystem using LinuxMCE GSD-Devices.

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

I have tested both scripts but I can not connect to http://fastspeedtest.net

I have tryed to connect to http://fastspeedtest.net using FireFox and it tells me that it is not possible to connect to the site.

Anyone else having this problem?

Regards
Johannes

Hello,

what do you think, would this be a replacement for a IR-Remote?

http://kinecthacks.net/kimemote-public-beta-0-4-now-available/

The problem is, I am not that big programmer that I could write some code.
I think this would be a very "cool" way to use the MD's OnScreen Orbiter

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

will there be a way to do a update from LinuxMCE 8.10 to 10.04?

Regards
Johannes

[13139]

Hi,

I will find the problem - what I have seen until now:

When I do this: ps -ef | grep squeezeslave

I get:
root     13139     1  0 21:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/squeezeslave -o 5 -m 00:00:00:00:00:11 -r5 -M/var/log/squeezeslave_first.log
root     13977     1  0 21:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/squeezeslave -o 6 -m 00:00:00:00:00:12 -r5 -M/var/log/squeezeslave_second.log

In this case everything works realy great - OK

When I do this: ps -ef | grep squeezeslave

and I get:
root     13139     1  0 21:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/squeezeslave -o 0 -m 00:00:00:00:00:11 -r5 -M/var/log/squeezeslave_first.log
root     13977     1  0 21:42 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/squeezeslave -o 6 -m 00:00:00:00:00:12 -r5 -M/var/log/squeezeslave_second.log

my PCI-Soundcard stops working - when I do: kill 13139
my PCI-Soundcard works without problems...

I have my problem every time when squeezeslave -L finds a USB-Soundcard on position 0 if the position is 1 or 2 or ... 5 or 6 it works very very good.

Any ideas?

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

I installed the Orbiter on a Eken M002 (Android 1.6) and have the same problem...

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

my Core Hardware:

HP Workstation XW8000
CPU: 2x Intel XEON @2,8GHz
RAM: 2GB
Harddisk: 3x73GB U320 SCSI RAID5 (Netto 146GB)
Optical Drive: CD/RW – DVD-ROM
Video: nVidia Quatro FX 3000 AGP 8x

Frontside:
2x USB 2.0
1x Firewire
1x Audio In
1x Audio Out

Backside:
4x USB 2.0
1x Firewire
1x Audio In
1x Audio Out
1x Mic
1x RS232
1x LAN 1GBit
1x PS/2 Mouse
1x PS/2 Keyboard
2x DVI (VGA Out)

2x PCI
1x AGP 8x
2x PCI-X-100
1x PCI-X-133

1x HP Smart Array 6404 256 MB U320 SCSI PCI-X 309520-001
1x HP Networkboard NC7770 - 10/100/1000 PCI-X 284848-001
1x Digium TDM410P PCI

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

I use the Digium TDM400 with one FXS and one FXO port and it works very good

Regards
Johannes

Karel,

I am sorry I don't have one - it was just an idea...

The problem ist, there are a lot of different weatherstations whitch can be connected to a PC how would it be the best way to get the weather data to the core - would it be a way to generate a xml-File with the weater data and store it on the Core or has the data to be stroed in a database? I have seen some weather station software that stores data in a MySQL database. The biggest problem ist, that most weather stations are shipped withh Windows software - how could this stations be connected? Most of this weather stations can also store the weather data in a text-file - i think it would be possible to generate an xml-file and send it to the core using an cron job...

This software http://www.weather-display.com/index.php supports a lot of weather stations...

Johannes

Hello Karel,

your Orbiter Skin looks great.

I have here an idea for the Home Menu.
Is it possilble to split the Home Menu screen to show on the left side of the screen some weather information (outside temperature, wind speed, rain...) and information about the room where you are (e.g. room temperature) also date and time would be fine and on the right side of the screen some media playing info (like you did it in your example)

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

I found out that the problem is squeezeslave. I have two USB-Soundcards and one PCI Soundcard. The sound works on all devices (the two USB Soundcards with squeezeslave and the PCI Soundcard on the core). The two squeezeslave are assigned to two different rooms. The rooms are named MP3-EG and MP3-OG. The PCI-Soundcard is assigned to a room called Technik where the Core is located.

I did not find the problem until now but:
Suddenly the PCI Soundcard stops working and when I start "aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav" I get this error "ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave". The inerestig thing is, when I kill the two squeezeslave processes assigned to the USB-Soundcards the PCI-Soundcard works. Then I start the two squeezeslave processes again and the PCI-Soundcard still works. It works for hours. The it suddenly stops. Now I kill the squeezeslave processes start them again and everything works.

Any ideas?

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

now I solved my problem. Everything looks OK but when I play some soundfiles I do not hear anything.

May be a ALSA-Modules reinstallation will solve my problem:

^{sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-$(uname -r)}

What do you think?

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

when I try:

aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

I get this:

ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1008:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave

Any ideas?

Regards
Johannes

Hi,

back again with my problem - the soundcard worked - I did an apt-get upgrade rebooted the core - now the sound does not work.

I did this because it worked for me:

apt-get remove alsa-modules-`uname -r`

asoundconf list - to show sound devices

asoundconf set-default-card I82801DBICH4 <-my pci-card

reboot

...but now it does not work for me - did anything change?

br
Johannes