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..or Wife Acceptance Factor for those who don't know. Of course this is essentially the same if you're making a HTPC for your parents or non-geeky people.
I recently tried the SAF skin (cant remember the exact name), and it works pretty nice, especially when hiding the view menu, so that it's only possible to scroll up and down in menus.
I also use a PS3eye as a array microphone, and run VoxCommando trained for my wife's voice, so that she can issue voice commands to focus xbmc, start movies, search for music etc. Works pretty well.
Does anybody else have any good tips? Skin modifications? OS setup?
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KAF [Kid Acceptance Factor] would be more appropriate. My 3 and 5yr olds (now 4 and 6) can and have been able to use the ATV2's in their rooms from day one.
I have auto-login profiles setup to filter only G-rated movies (they don't have access to programs, TV Shows, settings, etc...) and weather. They use the weather because they turn on their TV's every morning to check the weather and see what they should wear based on temp/rain/etc...
While I'm not ready to jump into another ex-wife, the girlfriend has been able to pick up the remote from the first time she saw it and easily navigate through looking for shows and all that. Once I showed her how to use sickbeard/couchpotato, she was on top for putting her girly HGTV seasons in and catching up on her shows... which cost me another pair of 2Tb drives to accommodate...
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WAF was a big thing when planning out my system. This is the main reason I went with the ATV2's and the Harmony remotes. Turning on and off the various components had to be simple for her. The Harmony remotes keep her happy. Even my mom can use it when she comes over.
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2012-05-01, 20:37
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-01, 20:37 by adytum.)
Interesting! I'm in the process now of setting up a budget system for my parents, went with an asrock ion with w7, because they want to be able to use it as a regular computer too. Trying the included mce remote now, binding a key to focus or open xbmc seems to work fine.
I am however interested in testing the waf factor of a Linux setup, probably next up on my list.
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2012-05-02, 07:02
(This post was last modified: 2012-05-02, 07:03 by drok.)
The Android Remote-Control makes XBMC acceptable to my wife, and easy for unversed guests even, and easy for our 4-year old to work too. It's the only control interface we use.
The android app does have a few weaknesses: it's hard to turn on subtitles or change audio track, and it errors/crashes often, but even so it is a god-sent.