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<blockquote data-quote="ab500" data-source="post: 283498" data-attributes="member: 79412">Hello All,Right now I'm looking into building a custom alarm clock as a gift to my girlfriend (and because projects are just fun). It will run on a 7&quot; touch screen using an embedded version of Windows XP and I was planning on developing an application in VB.Net as the frontend. This would be a lot of work so I was wondering how customizable MediaPortal is and if it will suite my needs. I need to create the equivalent of a &quot;Today&quot; screen for it and bring together all the information. I'm just learning VB.Net but I am fluent in web-based application development, specializing in PHP so the concepts in programming are not new to me. I'm including a mock-up of what I would like my finished product to look like.&nbsp;&nbsp; So basically my question to you guys is:Are there plug ins already available to support most of my required functionality?- Multiple Alarm Clocks (preferably with XML interfaces)- MP3 player - Weather Plugin- System Information Plugin- Date/Time Information- Photo gallery- Some sort of messaging receiverXML interfacing is always nice. I'd like to be able to tie together information from all these plug-ins into the Home screen but I'm not sure now accessible their data is.How easy will it be to tie them together?Will the resulting interface be intuitive and easy to use?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ab500, post: 283498, member: 79412"] Hello All, Right now I'm looking into building a custom alarm clock as a gift to my girlfriend (and because projects are just fun). It will run on a 7" touch screen using an embedded version of Windows XP and I was planning on developing an application in VB.Net as the frontend. This would be a lot of work so I was wondering how customizable MediaPortal is and if it will suite my needs. I need to create the equivalent of a "Today" screen for it and bring together all the information. I'm just learning VB.Net but I am fluent in web-based application development, specializing in PHP so the concepts in programming are not new to me. I'm including a mock-up of what I would like my finished product to look like. So basically my question to you guys is: Are there plug ins already available to support most of my required functionality? - Multiple Alarm Clocks (preferably with XML interfaces) - MP3 player - Weather Plugin - System Information Plugin - Date/Time Information - Photo gallery - Some sort of messaging receiver XML interfacing is always nice. I'd like to be able to tie together information from all these plug-ins into the Home screen but I'm not sure now accessible their data is. How easy will it be to tie them together? Will the resulting interface be intuitive and easy to use? [/QUOTE]

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