On 5/22/06, Kyle Sexton ks@mocker.org wrote:
I'm curious what other people are doing in Linux right now for "fun". My current project has been integrating Asterisk (Open source PBX) and MythTV (Open source PVR). I've gotten it so that I can call my house and have it read me what shows are going to be recorded. The inbound line is a soft-phone SIP connection from Vonage. I'm probably going to beef up my phone tree to include other things, and may eventually get some home automation things going through it. What projects has everyone else been doing?
-Kyle
Parts of MY current "beginnng to put together" are in a spiritual sense related to yours. Wifey's expensive DirecTv satellite system now carries XM music channels. Which Inspired me to try capturing that audio stream. Even after the IRD's D/A converter and a test run using crap windows tools it sounded quite acceptable. The rest of the project follows naturally. Migrating my music collection to a server for the "Squeezebox" remote audio terminal.
The not finished elements are-
Settling on a distro for the server.
Collating my existing 4 gigs estimated MP3 stuff scattered across diverse media and at varying sample rates/levels/quality. A non trivial task of it's own to be truthful.
Ripping some 200+ cd's not yet converted- to the not yet chosen format and any other cruppage required for making all this play nice.
Do consider some blogging of your project details both software and hardware. Which is part of my next reason for getting a LiveJournal account . Having a "snapshot" of proven compatible soft and hard elements can save others from much sanity erosion. Yes, some like trying and failing. Not me. I suspect sharing some combinations that just plain worked may make us much good karma!
So-called compatibility lists are sadly no match for independent living with the assembled system and logging the Roses&Thorns.
Oren