Comments on: Ricetta: Media PC alla Linux

By: syed shams ali

syed shams ali — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:43:08 +0000

All Of that i JUst Want to Say that it was MindBlowing

By: Graham White

Graham White — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 07:00:32 +0000

Serial display is a nice idea if you have a terminal server and want to connect remotely. You could certainly do some nice tricks with that with regards controlling streaming, even from a command line. Most media players worth their weight generally support some sort of streaming interface though so can easily be done over Ethernet and with a nice web or GUI front end – not something I require myself just yet though!

I’ve just ordered the serial IR dongle I put up in this article so I’ll see what that’s like later this week hopefully. It’s the one recommended by the LIRC project page so hopefully I’ll be in good shape, and it also has a voltage regulator for use with low voltage machines such as a thinkpad. The equivalent parts in the UK would have cost me a similar amount so not much point in making one. I was in Maplin at the weekend and even the best they could do was a USB IRDA receiver, sadly!

I’ve not seen Cajun before so I’ll be sure to check it out, thanks for the tip!

By: Anton Piatek

Anton Piatek — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:06:36 +0000

I built an audio jukebox of a similar nature, though it is stand-alone and does not need a tv. It has a serial display such as this matrix orbital one. It also uses a serial infrared module, see http://www.lirc.org/ for more (I mean to put up my wiring schematic on my site as finding equivalent parts in the UK can be tricky. Holding it all together is cajun. Choose your flavour of linux of course (most people use fedora, but I use debian) and you have a standalone jukebox that only needs a stereo!