Re: slightly OT: The Future?

["dermot_bradley" <bradley@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@y..., "Lee" <lee@v...> wrote:
> Its already happened (a couple of years ago) a Yank company called
> Servio, IIRC sell you a server for a $1000, and then you pay a
> maintenance charge.

See http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT7518017740.html

Basically this is what I'm in the process of creating myself.

I'm building a small Linux distribution (H.A.N.S - Home Automation
Networked Server) which so far is a DHCP server, caching DNS server,
NTP server, file server (SMB), is hosting MP3 files for my Audiotrons
and has basic ripping/encoding/tagging scripts.

I'm in the process of getting Apache/PHP up on it so I can write a
custom admin interface for it.

The plans for it are:

- to interface to my Comfort system and log all events
- to log CLID (once I get a Meteor)
- to provide a Photo Album (for pics upload from my Canon)
- to provide TV schedule information (with links to IMDB)
- using a Hauppauge DVB-T card to record digital terrestial channels
- using an analogue TV card to record frames from security camera
(when triggered by Comfort linked PIR)
- using an analogue TV card to record analogue TV (Irish channels) and
also Sky channels




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