Hi Phil > I'm looking at building a new system, after my current server died. > I've been looking at the standard devices with the intention of using the > same system as a media server/home entertainment system, etc. > However, I can't find a platform I'm entirely happy with - everything is > either too expensive to run 24/7, or is too feeble to cope with the other > applications I want.
What I've used is a fit-pc2 with 60GB SSD, mounted to the wall with a vesa mount plate inside a walk-in cupboard. See http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ The PC runs Linux and has 6 USB's and HDMI out plus a few other bits. On the other side of the wall is the kitchen, with a small LCD HDMI touch screen in the wall. The device has a LinkUSB 1.4 adapter for the one 1-wire network that snakes around the house with several temp sensors under the floor and elsewhere, (one or two I'm not entirely sure as they were entombed by the builders), and a couple on the flow and return pipes of the boilers. There's a DMX driver for the DMX based lighting network and dimmers for the U/F heating, and there'll be a serial network for light switches when I can get the time to build them. There's clipsal pink cat5 to the light sockets as well as T/E so we can have some legacy switches for now.The PC also runs Squeezeserver software for music, and asterisk for the phones. There's a basic QML based interface for the touch screen. It consumes around 9 watts and copes fine with the nominal loading. I've used an earlier fit-pc with laptop drive in the loft of another property, driving DMX again for lights, a custom 433Mhz X10 receiver and wireless transmitter to the garden irrigation system, asterisk etc. and that works fine too. So that would be my vote unless you need much larger storage, in which case a laptop drive instead of SSD, or a separate NAS box. Also, it uses x86 instruction set making it likely that pre-built executables will run. Good luck. Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application performance, security threats, fraudulent activity, and more. Splunk takes this data and makes sense of it. IT sense. And common sense. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-novd2d _______________________________________________ Owfs-developers mailing list Owfs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/owfs-developers
