2010-09-05, 08:05
First off thank you all for the community forum and the massive help from all those enthusiast blogs it would have been much harder with out you all blazings paths before me. Added a new toy to the computer eco-system today.
It was touch and go there for a bit but it turned out better then I had initially planned.
I have been wanting to upgrade my media box which was hooked to my tv for a while now, this weekend I took the plunge. I am now the proud pappy of media box 2.0*.
The baseline consists of a ASRock ION 330Pro The high points are the Intel® Dual Core Atom™ 330 and the NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor.
It has the XBMCFreak custom build of XBMC (Dharma Beta) on the front end with the Lucid Lynx (10.04) version of Ubuntu as it's core OS.
On top of that it also has a completely PHP/HTML back-end management system for all your media needs.
in no particular order...
Webmin for system/os Management
Apache http/php server Webserver (xbmcfreak)
Transmission Bittorrent Client
Sabnzbd NZB newsgroup Manager
Sickbeard TV queue & download manager
Couchpotato Movie queue & download manager
Newznab news indexing and nzb generation with rss feed sabnzbd intergration
Tonido Your own Personal cloud and openID server (also can do $webdav sharing)
Subsonic Podcatcher and Music Manager.
I use a Joomla based php site to iframe redirect all the various pieces into a cohesive unit using drop-down menus. Though to be honest I am trying to get Tonido to do the same basic thing.
As you can tell I am pretty proud of it, still have a few bugs to iron out but the tough stuff is done.
As well I believe that it should be capable of sharing a lot of the media straight to an android or iphone based smartphone, however since I don't have one I cannot test that.
Anyhow if anyone has any other suggestions or something I might have missed please let me know. Always looking for ways to make it better, since I am still fairly new to this all.
*The reason it is 2.0 is because 1.0 is my old desktop PC which has been doubling as my test bed it turned out so well I decided to keep it for my downstairs study.
It was touch and go there for a bit but it turned out better then I had initially planned.
I have been wanting to upgrade my media box which was hooked to my tv for a while now, this weekend I took the plunge. I am now the proud pappy of media box 2.0*.
The baseline consists of a ASRock ION 330Pro The high points are the Intel® Dual Core Atom™ 330 and the NVIDIA® ION™ graphics processor.
It has the XBMCFreak custom build of XBMC (Dharma Beta) on the front end with the Lucid Lynx (10.04) version of Ubuntu as it's core OS.
On top of that it also has a completely PHP/HTML back-end management system for all your media needs.
in no particular order...
Webmin for system/os Management
Apache http/php server Webserver (xbmcfreak)
Transmission Bittorrent Client
Sabnzbd NZB newsgroup Manager
Sickbeard TV queue & download manager
Couchpotato Movie queue & download manager
Newznab news indexing and nzb generation with rss feed sabnzbd intergration
Tonido Your own Personal cloud and openID server (also can do $webdav sharing)
Subsonic Podcatcher and Music Manager.
I use a Joomla based php site to iframe redirect all the various pieces into a cohesive unit using drop-down menus. Though to be honest I am trying to get Tonido to do the same basic thing.
As you can tell I am pretty proud of it, still have a few bugs to iron out but the tough stuff is done.
As well I believe that it should be capable of sharing a lot of the media straight to an android or iphone based smartphone, however since I don't have one I cannot test that.
Anyhow if anyone has any other suggestions or something I might have missed please let me know. Always looking for ways to make it better, since I am still fairly new to this all.
*The reason it is 2.0 is because 1.0 is my old desktop PC which has been doubling as my test bed it turned out so well I decided to keep it for my downstairs study.