Archive for July, 2006
Matrix Switcher Control Appliance (In progress)
EDITING IN PROGRESS
STARTUPDATE (Sept 8.2006)
Some interesting things have happened.
1) A LIRC module was released for Ruby and this will let me accept the raw codes and get rid of the totalitarian lird.conf file! Hooray! Now I can allow people to, via a RIA app (Flex) remap arbitrary IR codes to switcher activities!
2) Ruby actually works […]
Webmin Virtual Host Manager
Update
Now requires the perl module YAML. Why? I moved to a new host and the Storable data was not byte compatible. YAML is a nice way to represent data structures in a portable, parsable and human readable way. It was a 4 line change and it made my life easier. It’ll make your easier […]
Infrared Distribution in a Structured Wiring System
Introduction
In order to make my switching system ‘Wife Compatible’ (verified) I had to devise a simple and bulletproof method of managing it. At first it was a web portal but I realized fairly quickly that not only did it have to be simple, it also had to be in context and unfortunately browsing a website […]
Introduction to my A/V Matrix Distribution System
Over the last year I have been building a fairly elaborate Audio/Visual switching system in our home. The original purpose was to allow us to watch Tivo in any room that we might be in without having to use a non-DirecTV Series 2 Tivo . We wanted it to be SIMPLE, one remote, anywhere in […]
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