I’ve added another two howtos in the smart home section: “Nokia770 package howto” and “How to setup CISCO 7970 in Plutohome”. “Nokia770 as Plutohome Orbiter” and “Howto setup a new Media Director in Plutohome” are coming soon.
The AHI is a new Windows-based UMPC
Notebook specialist Averatec is going to release its version of ultra-mobile PC – AHI – this autumn. The AHI is based on Windows XP Home Edition (again!!!!!). It has a keyboard which is hid under a slide-out and a 5-inch 1280 x 1204 touch-sensitive screen. Also, it contains an Intel Celeron M ultra-low voltage processor, 512MB of RAM (minimum), 30GB hard drive, 802.11b/g Wi-Fi, Bluetooth […]
Samsung Q1 official list of accessories
It seems Samsung Q1 grows more and more. After announce of Q1 price Samsung published a list of Q1 accessories (read it in PDF file). I like Q1. But I’d like it much more if Samsung releases a Linux version 🙂
Air conditioner WEB Central Controller
If you home contains more than one air conditioner it’s better to connect them into one controller. For example, Mitsubishi offers G-50A – a central controller with web-based interface. It’s possible connect to G-50A 50 indoor units. Once I read about air condition which can be controlled via Internet. The author was sceptical about this feature. I agree with him. It’s too expensive. But if […]
TV2Wireless
There is an original method to transmit digital TV to any room without cable connection. This is a Scart AV Sender. Just plug in it to the SCART socket of the VCR/DVD/SAT and into the SCART input port of TV or monitor. It’s really cool! For example, in case wall mounted TV/LCD/Plasma you don’t need to think how hide cables.
Mac Mini as Plutohome MD
Last Friday I played with Mac Mini (power PC not Intel-based). I tried to use it as Plutohome Media Director. There are at least three reasons to do that. The first thing is a design. Mac Mini is stylish, compact and simple. The front panel contains the power led and CD/DVD drive. Nothing more! The Media Director is placed near TV. So, it should look […]
VDR streamdev on 64bit Fedora Core 4 howto
I’ve written my first howto – VDR streamdev on 64bit Fedora Core 4 howto for project ‘Smarthome’. I’m goind to add another howto “How to setup CISCO 7970 in Plutohome” next week.
Sky Digibox + VDR = Sky HD
If you are owner of Sky Digibox you can easily add PVR functionality to it using VDR and its plugin sky. The plugin sky is included into official VDR distribution. You can find it in the PLUGINS/src. It creates a new MPEG2-based device which allows to connect the analog a/v output of your Sky Digibox to VDR. So, you’ll able to use the full recording […]