Hopefully I’m not the only person who has dozens of unfinished projects lying around both physically and virtually. I thought that maybe if I wrote some of them down I would actually get around to completing some of them:
- MythTV – despite seeing PVRs drop in price (sub £100 now), I would still like to get my MythTV box back up and running, this time with Mythbuntu rather than Knoppmyth. Sadly their website is down currently, which is a PITA
- Church office – there are 3 projects in the church office that need done:
- Fix the display machine – it’s got a weird bug, possibly hardware, that is causing it to crash when displaying for any length of time. Needs a bit of onsite PD at some point…
- Build the file server – I have a fileserver box sitting in the flat, which was originally set up with a nice software RAID, which I had hoped to turn into an iFolder server. Sadly iFolder hasn’t developed as quickly as I had hoped, and I’m worried about putting it on a production box. So I need to find another seamless backup solution for a mixed OS network.
- Upgrade the firewall – Smoothwall 2.0 is running fine, but Smoothwall 3.0 has been out for a while.
- Linkpot – I have a load of ideas for the completion of Linkpot (well – the next phase anyway) but just haven’t got around to it. What may happen here is that I build up a bigger team around the project to get it all done. Watch this space
- Church website – another half-finished Django project that needs some time and TLC.
And if I get all that done, there’s always:
- MythTV wiring and frontend – having a Myth backend is all well and good, and being able to watch content on my desktop is great. But the eventual aim is to get ethernet downstairs and a silent box of some sort into the TV so that it’s actually, well, “useful”
- I’d love to play a bit with Asterisk/Trixbox……
Of course – I have many household/family duties which undoubtedly come waaaay before any of this tinkerage. But here’s hoping that I can properly schedule myself to get these done.
mrBen
Woah woah! Careful there. Let’s not let the idea get out that projects need to be finished!
From a mythtv frontend point of view, consider the Hauppage media MVP (Cheap (~£50) and silent). You can replace the firmware with mvpmc linux firmware (delivered by TFTPboot) which has support for MYTH, network shares and can act as a slimserver client. The only problem is it looks a bit rubbish and is a little limited on the connector front.
My list is worse…
@Cleggton – thanks – that looks like an ideal piece of kit. Very tempted
@mrsBen – is that your list for you, or your list for me….?
Och, I’ve got my projects too, but I’ve just accepted that, come the end of the year, they’ll still be almost as half-baked, and just as incomplete, as they were at the start of the year. Good fun though
Yes, I think I could (should?) write a similar list, though I’m not organized enough to have actually written it down, as of yet. Best of luck with yours!
1:- Instead of iFolder use http://www.freenas.org all file shares supported apple windows & linux, can use software raid hardware raid, runs rsync for backups, runs from compact flash 128MB with adapter on any old dog of af a machine, can be a slim serverfor your music collection , plus loads more stuff.
2:- Leave yourself with smoothwall 2.0 it may be old but its very stable try 3 & you’ll get headaches.
3:- As cleggton says use a Hauppage media MVP and run mvpmc for your mythtv frontend it also has a client for slimserver so you can listen to music from your freenas box as for looks use the themes… latest nightly builds are quite stable:-) I have 3 of these & they rarely miss a beat.