I am seriously getting frustrated, with this IR Transmitter, this is a vital part of my build and it is getting me under! I have gotten the PVR150’s IR Blaster to work, well as mentioned it blinks and it does appear to transmit when commanded to, but my DSTV decoder is not working!! I tried loads of scripts and still nothing, I used mark’s send_power_new, and it ran for about 10mins, blinking away as it should but still nothing, no response from the decoder…
Wow, what a weekend, I went to watch The Dark Knight on iMax and it was great, watch the rugby had a few drinks, and continued with my HTPC build. Headaches galore from hangovers and head-bashing caused by struggling into the wee hours of the night! But I have made some progress.
What is a Home theatre PC? Ill let the Wikipedia explain:
A home theatre PC (HTPC) or media PC is a convergence device that combines the functions of a personal computer and a digital video recorder. It is connected to a television or a television-sized computer display and is often used as a digital photo, music, video player, TV receiver and digital video recorder.
This is my latest project, I am busy building my very own HTPC/PVR.
Finally got my home automation / security project under way. Bought myself an IP Cam, and wrote a quick php frontend.Now I can monitor my house remotely from work!
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Got Dosbox today, It’s brilliant! Brings back so much memories of all the old games I used to play when I was young! For the people who don’t know what DosBox is, it is a x86 dos emulator, which enables you to run old dos based applications and games!
In a previous post I mentioned that I setup a new Ubuntu box based on a Nforce 2 mother board. Well everything works nicely except for the sound, I only get 2 channels. 
I tweaked the alsconfig and it now produces the correct output from all 6 speakers when I run…
Well I have been a Fan of Ubuntu for some years now and I have been running it on and of for a while now. I still have to use windows, because I am a C# developer by day and for the libs we use and the development we do @ work Mono won’t cut it, so my Notebook is windows only. I used a virtual machine and emulated Ubuntu on it with great success in the past and before I sold my Desktop, it had Ubuntu 6X running very nicely. A week or so ago I got some old PC gear from my uncle, I decided this would be it, I would install Ubuntu 7.10 and experience the joys of open source once again! (Well actually open source powers my home network, with a IPCOP box for ADSL access and firewalling, and a Ubuntu server ed box, for hosting my home’s homepage. 
I owe allot to Open source, and Mark. )
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