[143630] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NANOGers home data centers - What's in your closet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Krichbaum)
Sat Aug 13 08:18:56 2011
From: "Eric Krichbaum" <eric@telic.us>
To: "'Alexander Harrowell'" <a.harrowell@gmail.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <b9ffc3a5-b9e6-4ac1-84b7-ad9d15bd2f58@email.android.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 07:14:53 -0500
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
-----Original Message-----
>Anyone got experience with XBMC and similar linux media centre tools =
running on tablet or netbook class hardware? I like the idea of using a =
couple of el cheapo Android tablets with decent external speakers as =
music/video/TV/phone terminals, getting content from a >NAS box and =
perhaps phone from a * server.
>Roku etc. are far, far too expensive for what they do.
>Alternatively, Eric, what are your XBMCs running on?=20
>--
>Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
I've got the Tvix 6600 HD also and it's an awesome media player but yes, =
too expensive for what it does.
My xbmc boxes are AppleTv's running Ubuntu Hardy and XBMC with the =
wireless card replaced by a Broadcom HD encoder for 1080P. The work =
very well. I haven't sync'd the libraries together yet but really =
should. Centralized libraries for them all would be a fantastic next =
step and give me features like pause in one room, resume in another but =
it's not come up. =20
More complete scheme is Cisco POE switches on the two floors feeding the =
floor with 2 Gig via fiber LAG between. I had the 12 pack trunk which =
is why I ran it instead of just individual pairs. It'll make =
transition easier if I have to go to 100G backbone. Heheheheh Netgear =
APs on each floor for coverage. Media server is a Supermicro 12 bay =
with Dual 3.0 Xeons, 4 gig of Ram and 10TB of drive space running linux. =
Shares to Apple TV are via NFS.
Eric
