I'd like to see UnRAID being easily integrated into LinuxMCE. LinuxMCE is the most promising home automation system being worked on right now. UnRAID would make it just that much better.

I'd like to see UnRAID being easily integrated into LinuxMCE. LinuxMCE is the most promising home automation system being worked on right now. UnRAID would make it just that much better.

 

What do you mean by "integrated"?

 

If you mean, "integrate their code base", then that is a business topic.

 

If you mean "make compatible with", then I believe the answer is "done".

 

 

Bill

what I meant was that LinuxMCE would see the unRAID server (plug and play) and all the user shares and passwords would work. I have not tested it's integration and I haven't seen anyone confirm its compatibility.

well, on that end i don't foresee any problems...the unRAID user-shares are just regular samba shares, and as far as user-names and passwords go, i suppose if you include a user on the "movies/music/photos" share on unRAID, that's also been enabled/setup on LinuxMCE, no further login config should be required.

 

the reality may be different, but that's just standard network procedure that would be the same for UPnP servers, CIF/Samba, NFS, AFP or what-have-ya shares.

 

i thought you were talking about the possibility of running the LinuxMCE core on top of unRAID, which - when i first read your post - seemed not *that* far-fetched...but now that i've familiarized myself some more with the matter, and considering that in its current incarnation it *only* runs on top of Ubuntu 7.04 (and no other version of Ubuntu *or* Linux for that matter), i doubt it will happen.

 

but hey, there's something to be said for having a nice, reliable box with unRAID that does nothing other than server data, and does it well, reliably and efficiently.

Well, I would like to have every piece of data on my unraid server and then the Core server streams the data from the unraid server distributing to the Media Director PC's in the media rooms.

i'm probably gonna get some flack here, but after i've had problems with the LinuxMCE installation and then installed Windows/MediaPortal and ran into all sorts of bugs and weird behavior there, i just spent the past 48 hours with Vista Ultimate/MCE and all i have to say is: Wow! i had no idea how far it's come and the plugins that people have been writing are really a god-sent...for example, i just installed "MyNetflix" and am streaming the "Watch Now" movies inside of Media Center...there are alos some great cataloging plugins that deal with cover-art and actors/inside-info.

 

all-in-all it provides everything i am looking for and then some, and even though it's Windows-based, if you set it up to start straight into MCE upon startup (full-screen), map your unRAID as a drive and read all the content from there, it's one hell of a combo...i am also a big fan of the idea of an all Linux solution, but with that many people working on Vista Media Center, there are definitely some advantages to using this...

Agree on Vista's MCE. My Movies, the transcoding plug-ins, and others are REAL nice. I've only used it a little bit but I know folks who swear by it. The NetFlix thing I'd not heard of, sounds really nice and I wish I could have that with XBMC! With their DRM though I'm not holding my breathe. I have an HDHomeRun so I'm pretty flexible on what I use with it, MCE and Myth both support it along with others. I may yet setup a Vista machine in my office to save off H.264 encoded to unRAID to playback via XBMC. I hope that XBMC picks up as much support for add-ons as MCE has, when Python support is fully baked that will help.