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RicaVision SideShow Remote Arrived
For all 4 of you that have ever read anything on this site you’ll know I am a bit of a Distributed A/V : SmartHome freak and part of that quest is creating a remote control system with an extremely high WAF(Wife Acceptance Factor). I thought I had that set with my Phillips Pronto and room based content switcher but then Microsoft introduced SideShow and the first devices started appearing in glass cages at tradeshows.
Devices with color screens, Media Player control and easy navigation.
What am I up to?
Thinking about SideShow
Resting
Thats it.
Latest GSpace doesn’t really require GMail.. (GMail as an anonymous File Relay)
This is probably very obvious but I was installing the latest version of Gmail Space today - 0.5.1 - ( a FireFox extension for accessing GMail as a filestore in the browser, get it here: http://www.rjonna.com/ext/gspace.php ) and came across some interesting and most likely unintended functionality.
You can use your own arbitrary email address as […]
Excuse my dust
I just moved from one managed hosting provider to another and thats always painful. Until I get sorted out there may be some missing image links as I reattach Gallery to WordPress.
But I get bonus points! I moved everything into a VMWare instance on the new servers. This means that in the future my moves […]
A/V Rack Cleanup
Recently my wife and son went out of town for a week to visit family leaving me plenty of time to engage in ‘Low Value Housework’, such as rewiring my Media Rack in the garage so that its easier to work on, looks better and actually -works- better.
Here are some pics of the final product […]
HOWTO:Listening to SomaFM on my Media PC
Lately I have become addicted to SomaFM. Previously I used Orb (http://www.orb.com/) to stream music from my home library but when I had the home gigabit network disassembled during our latest system overhaul I lost that capability.
Whats a guy to do at the office with no music? Turn to streaming music of course. This is […]
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 […]
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