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Extensive as in $$$ or capabilities? Mine was done on a budget, but offers a pretty nice array of capabilities.

Dell media server, handmedown from work upgrades but still has a lot of life in it. It's dual-proc, 2Gb ram with 3x36Gb scsi for OS (ubuntu 10.04 server running sickbeard, sabnzbd+ and couch potato), and 8x2Tb for data. Yeah I know it's dusty... it spends its time sandwiched in a corner and out of sight and often forgotten.




My main PC where all the work is done and actually catch up on my regular shows while the kids are flipping through Dora and Diego episodes on the main TV. AMD 965 [email protected], 8gb ram, 2xHD5870 and triple-headed setup. This machine is triple-booted for Win7, Linux and OSX and each has an XBMC install on it.

I also use mymovies collection management to sort out and scrape movie info.




Bedroom setups (3 of these for my room and 2 kid's rooms): Proscan 19" HDTV. I was using some older-model HP tablet computers in the bottom left of the desktop picture below, but in the last two weeks have upgraded these machines to a batch of AppleTV 1's I picked up off ebay recently. Mine is full access, while the kid's rooms use custom XBMC profiles setup to only show G-rated/kids movies. Each of these runs XBMC on AppleTV




Living room: Samsung 5.1 surround sound, Samsung BD player w/Netflix and cable box. NMedia case with AMD 6000+, 2Gb RAM and 32Gb SSD drive with wireless-N. Visio 32" LED. This one is XBMC live.







Wouldn't let me do more than 6 images... but I still have the 3 tablets that I'm not sure if I'm going to use or not, but each of them run XBMC on Win7.

For remotes I have the apple devices upstairs that all share the same remote, so they're always easily found. I have a standard MCE remote for the living room, plus an android phone, an ipad and an itouch.


All TV's (with exception of filtering on the kid's tv's) show the same information in the same style. Goal was so my g/f could come in, pick up a remote and not have to do anything crazy or learn a new language to watch a movie and so far, it seems to be working! Even the kids know how to grab a remote (either ipad or ATV remote) and pick a movie or TV show for them to watch.

All TV shows via sickbeard are automatically downloaded, categorized and ready for viewing without having to touch anything. I'm still working on a way to better automate the same for movies, such as when a Netflix DVD comes in, toss it in, rip it, scrape it with mymovies, drop it in the correct folder and update the XBMC front ends... without having to do anything other than put the disc in the player, but that's not quite working right yet.