The show off your gadget integration thread.

[shirt]

cheers alex, i'll get googling.


however, i'd welcome suggestions as to the best [i.e. simplest / most elegant] way to integrate 'my' gadgets, given my flatmate just upped the game somewhat.

he's just gone out and bought a new surround sound amp:

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/hi-f...

and accompanying 3D bluray player. the amp has networking capability and can be controlled by ipod/ipad, and because it sits in the living room it seems logical to use this as the centrepiece of gadget-dom if possible.

if the living room, there'll be this 7.1 set-up, a HDD drive loaded with films etc., the cable TV box and our wireless router.

in both our bedrooms are internet ready tv's & analogue hifi's. my mac mini is arriving his week and will be going in my bedroom. i also plan to add a 2TB time capsule before xmas.

we would like to be able to ping video from the HDD, time capsule & mac [and the bluray player if poss.] to any of the tv's, and to send audio from the mac back to the marantz receiver. we'd like to have a set-up akin to alex's with a router permanently connected to a VPN, and control as much kit as possible via an ipad and ipod touch. the amount of remote controls currently in the living room is a bit silly.


there is a guy coming to install the receiver on friday and the mac arrives the same day. i basically need a shopping list of things to buy so i can spend saturday connecting everything up and making everything nice and slick.

would like to use airport/apple tv where possible as if i move out i can take all that with me. assume you're talking to an IT numpty, as a lot of the abbreviations in this thread are sailing over my head!

TIA.

[Fats25]

Opening an old thread, but I thought I would give some info on my earlier questions re Apple Tv. After not being able to decide whether to go with this, or not, the decision was made for me with a kind xmas present from my sister.

So Apple TV received, I spent the first day or so playing with the features, and could see (as posted by Melvin and others!) that although it worked for antything Apple/ITunes based locally or from internet, this was not going to provide the other features I wanted - namely accessing files from my NAS that were not in ITunes, also meaning I can leave pc's off.

So I decided to go down the XBMC route.

I now have XBMC Eden installed on ATV2, all my original features from AppleTV remain, but with XBMC Constellation installed on IPAD, I now have a brilliant way of accessing all of my data without need for PC being on, straight from my tv. Exactly what I was looking for.

Has been a few moments of annoyance along the way, but using FTP to access movies/music/photos, from XBMC to NAS, everything is now working well. Only annoyance is that Seas0npass for 4.4.4 requires tethered boot - but I an sure there will be an untethered version soon.

Could not have done it without the information in this link:-

http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=XBMC_for_iOS_...

Also has some added bonuses through Add-ons as well - I have tried Icefilms, Hulu, FastpassTV and all work well. I am sure there are more out there, I have just not had a chance to play yet.

Edited by Fats25 on Friday 30th December 19:35