If you don’t want to scan channels on your VDR box by yourself there is a place where the fresh channels.conf can be found. Site VDR Settings offers a channels.conf for the most famous satellites for DVB-S and DVB-S2. Additionally there is a list of transponders taken from Lyngsat and Kingofsat.
The new Z-Wave interface for LinuxMCE is developed hardly now. Currently there is a test version of the interface for i386. Source can be found here.
Following features are already implemented:
and those are coming soon:
To buy Z-Wave stuff in Europe you can use some shop listed in that wiki page.
It seems that Crestron didn’t satisfy with iViewer - iPhone application offered easy and universal way to implement an interface to the TCP/IP based home automation systems (including Crestron itself). On the CEDIA 2008 Crestron demonstrated its iPhone gear. It allows a complete control and management of home entertainment, AV presentation and environmental systems such as climate, lighting and shades using intuitive graphical interface. That interface provides a real-time status of room temperature, lighting levels, shade position and digital media meta data such as volume, title and artist.
The Crestron Control App for the iPhone can be downloaded from the iTunes App Store without any charges.
[via Remote Shoppe]
Recently Logitech announced very useful gadget for all HTPC owner - wireless palm-sized keyboard diNovo Mini. So, it’s time to start use it with your MythTV box. That wiki page describes how to configure diNovo Mini including media buttons and the mouse track-pad.
It’d be also great if diNovo Mini will be supported by VDR as well.
[via MythTV News]
HTPC case AVC-S1 produced by Korean company GMC doesn’t look like a PC at all. It supports Micro ATX motherboards. The aluminum front panel of AVC-S1 sports 16 X 2 VFD display, menu navigation jog button and enter button. Detachable internal 3.5″ drive cage allows to install HDD easily. The AVC-S1 has four expansion slots for low profile cards. Additionally it can be equiped with IR receiver and remote control.
The price of the GMC AVC-S1 is about €150 which is very reasonable for such kind of HTPC cases. By some reason GMC products are not available in Europe but I found a lot offers in Russia. It looks a strange a bit for me.