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Josh,<br><br>I took no offense what-so-ever by your comments (I'm too old to get offended LOL). As for the Windows boxes, they all have a KnoppMyth CD to boot from so they too can be front ends. Eventually I would like to have an ITX box in each room with a small 4 port switch that also allows a windows, linux, or other ethernet devices to connect. As I said, I have been working on this system for many years and I expect that I will continue to work on it for many more.<br><br>My original goal of the system was to have independant music available in every room of the house. Then, as video was added, I wanted each room with a TV (12 in all) only connected to the network for all viewing needs (no RF cable). Next came X10, and I use this exclusively for the house lighting. Now nearly every room has a computer for some type of functionality from internet surfing, to TV watching, listening to music, controlling ethernet appliances, etc.<br><br>Currently I am trying to incorporate solar energy into the house and I am using the network to monitor statistics, optimaly aim solar panels, and calculate the peek energy usage times. I plan on putting this on my Blog as well but time is limited and I can only do so much at a time.<br><br>One day I would like to have ALL funcionality of the house on the network and controlled via touch screen LCD displays... Well, I can dream can't I?<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">----- Original Message -----<br>
From: "Josh White" <jaw1959@gmail.com><br>
To: "Discussion about mythtv" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br>
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] My whole house setup<br>
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:42:07 -0400<br>
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Its Josh, not John, and I realized after sending that, my tone came off differently than I intended. <br><br>I think it's a great setup, it's just that it seems like there's a lot of stuff there to do not much more than my little bit of stuff can do. It seems to me that if I had all that stuff, I could do more with it than watch 6 movies simultaneously.
<br><br>If I were to put all this effort into a system, I would wonder what it would take to really push it. By my quick count, there's 13 potential frontends on the network (since there's a lot of windows machines that I'm assuming can't act as front ends), and it would be more impressive if all 13 were all used at the same time, putting all this bandwidth to the test. By the account of the creator, there's little chance even half of that would be used at any one time, and it's not clear just how many of the systems are actually myth frontends. Say this setup was in a hotel or something, where it could see some serious use, then that would be truly impressive.
<br><br>What would you say to a guy with the 20 node Core2 Duo cluster connected to the internet via 28.8kbs modem on AOL 6.0? Sure, it's his cluster, but I imagine you could think of a thing or two better to do to put it to good use, and you'd probably rag on him if he were your buddy.
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Either way, any mythtv system is just a Rube Goldberg implementation of
TV, and this is much more elaborate than average. It's impressive in that way, certainly. Regardless, Bravo for putting it all together! <br><br>My real question that I was trying to ask from the beginning was what does it take to watch 6 videos well that I don't understand? As in I sincerely would like to know, not in a sarcastic way. Though I suppose it's a little late for the now.
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<br><br></mythtv-users@mythtv.org></jaw1959@gmail.com><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jay R. Ashworth</b> <<a href="mailto:jra@baylink.com">jra@baylink.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 03:11:33PM -0400, Josh White wrote:<br>> While that looks really impressive, why do you need all that to watch 6<br>> videos at once?<br>[ ... ]<br>> Maybe some of you awe inspired people can fill me in on the difficulty
<br>> here.<br><br>No one said there *needed* to be difficulty, did they?<br><br>I see no reason why it needs to be "necessary" for him to take that<br>particular approach. He did it that way because he wanted to. The
<br>only person he has to justify it to is... his wife. :-)<br><br>My question, John, is why do you sound so... almost offended by it?<br><br>Consumption too conspicuous for you?<br><br>Cheers,<br>-- jra<br>--<br>Jay R. Ashworth Baylink
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