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Intersting, How many clients do you have? (can PM if sensitive)
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Calling all MP New Zealanders (Both of you!!) (3 Viewers)
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Only 2 at the moment, lounge and office. Will eventually run all bedrooms and lounge from the system. Only gets sensitive if I start talking about the decryption method and sharing... so if we steer clear from that we're good to carry on here.
Edit: As it is on a dedicated device, I have no idea of the client limits... I'd imagine there quite large.
Edit: As it is on a dedicated device, I have no idea of the client limits... I'd imagine there quite large.
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Raspberry Pi's with XBMC with TVServer as back end is really the only cheap way of getting a small client, and even then it really is quite poor for TV services. Your best bet is fusion based mITX systems... but they won't be cheap for all the rooms.
Edit: Agree with Kiwi above[DOUBLEPOST=1373097699][/DOUBLEPOST]How soon are you going to be doing this? Gigabyte have an AMD unit that is similar in size to the Intel NUCs but should be a lot cheaper, that might be of benefit.
Aiming to have things up and running by December. We are renovating that area of the house, so will have easy access for rewiring etc, so want to make best use of the opportunity.
Ok, that could be good timing... These new units will be small and back of TV mountable... Look up the Intel NUC for comparison.
Make sure you star wire the house, dual cat 6 to each room from a central place... I've just done that it has worked wonders, router, modem switches all in one place with the server... Perhaps build a small rack and get a full on ATX rack with lots of bay slots... a custom built NAS
Make sure you star wire the house, dual cat 6 to each room from a central place... I've just done that it has worked wonders, router, modem switches all in one place with the server... Perhaps build a small rack and get a full on ATX rack with lots of bay slots... a custom built NAS
Ok, that could be good timing... These new units will be small and back of TV mountable... Look up the Intel NUC for comparison.
Make sure you star wire the house, dual cat 6 to each room from a central place... I've just done that it has worked wonders, router, modem switches all in one place with the server... Perhaps build a small rack and get a full on ATX rack with lots of bay slots... a custom built NAS
Yes - we have a small store room where I plan to centralise all the IT components.
@Benoire - 8gb ram drive sounds overkill, I was thinking you might have a motel or hotel or something like that. I'm guessing you use the Pi as a card server instead of having the card directly read by the PC to reduce the chance of the key not being available if the PC is busy?
@bopfrog - Above recommendation sounds solid. I've also seen people mention that you should run a conduit so you can easily add more cables/different cables in the future. I imagine the most important thing is to label everything excessively so you don't get mix ups.
@bopfrog - Above recommendation sounds solid. I've also seen people mention that you should run a conduit so you can easily add more cables/different cables in the future. I imagine the most important thing is to label everything excessively so you don't get mix ups.
@kiwijunglist nope nothing like that simply multi-room on the cheap If we can get MHEG5 implemented correctly in MP2 then I think we'd be on to a winner! 8GB drive allows two clients to sit on pause for 50 minutes on an HD channel... never know when you might have to placate a 16 week old and how long that will take! Also less wear and tear as all ram based and not mechanical.
If we can get MHEG5 implemented correctly in MP2 then I think we'd be on to a winner! 8GB drive allows two clients to sit on pause for 50 minutes on an HD channel... never know when you might have to placate a 16 week old and how long that will take! Also less wear and tear as all ram based and not mechanical.Why are you using the PI and not running OSCAM on the server?
I've done a similar thing but with a different bent. I have mp server/client in the lounge, a NAS (freenas) and set up a cron job to copy all recorded TV to the NAS nightly. so recorded TV is available via DLNA on any TV in the house. that way there's no need for extra PCs at each TV, and the TVs already have freeview decoders so no need to worry about using the server for TV. only downside is there's no pause/rew live TV except of the main TV.
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