Andrew Close wrote:
On 12/10/05, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Back story:
I am building a house in KY (insert Red Neck Joke Here!) and am designing
the house around homeentertainment.
no red neck jokes. :) i'm jealous and envious. i wanna build a home like that!
quad CAT6 drops in every room
Dual AV jacks in every room
Built in speakers in lots of rooms
MythTV in the basement
dumb terminals at each TV.
Then I found another product called Pluto. www.plutohome.com
It uses MythTV for Tivo like functionality. But uses other programs to
control the home. A smart home or Home automation. climate control,
Lights, TV, Astrik PBX, Security. All sorts of goodies.
It is completely open source. This seems to good to be true. Has anyone
used MythTV and Pluto and have any experiances to share?
Pluto can use bluetooth from your handheld or Cell phone to have your
MythTV program follow you from room to room to room. Cool. Ok I need to
stop watching so much TV.
as others have mentioned there are a couple Pluto threads floating
around. one turn off is that the bluetooth phone has to be a Symbian
OS phone i believe. that limits your choices a bit. Pluto's MythTv
functionality is a watered down version of Myth. both of those
statements are hearsay, i 'believe' i read them in other posts or on
some other forum as i've never played with Pluto myself. although i
have checked out their website and if i had the time and money, would
play around with it. :)
good luck with the house. i'd love more details/updates. :)
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i'd be very curious to know if anyone has actually gotten plutohome to
do much. maybe i'm just a little slow, but i can't seem to configure any
of my X10 stuff with their "easy to use" but utterly confusing web
interface.
however, if you have a bunch of wireless windows CE devices lying around
to use as remotes, the touchscreen interfaces (orbiters) are pretty cool.
as far as myth functionality, pluto has its own interface for music and
videos, so it only uses myth for live tv and recordings. actually, the
orbiters just have a button that launches myth, and a remote interface
that pushes keyboard strokes to myth when buttons are pressed.
overall, installation with the kickstart cd was easy, though you may
have serious problems that are very difficult to debug. also you can
probably expect to spend a lot of time configuring things, especially if
you find the web interface as confusing as i did.
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