I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my firstborn son, Coen Hendrix Perry, a very happy 3rd birthday.
Happy Birthday Coen!
I’d like to take this opportunity to wish my firstborn son, Coen Hendrix Perry, a very happy 3rd birthday.
Happy Birthday Coen!
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I previously posted a quick cheat sheet for installing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04, and will be using that as my base OS for this post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other linux variations.
XBMC Media Center is an award-winning free and open source cross-platform entertainment hub software for HTPCs (Home theater PCs). It uses a 10-foot user interface designed to be a media player for the living-room TV using a remote control as the primary input device. Its graphical user interface (GUI) allows the user to easily browse and view videos, photos, podcasts, and music from a harddrive, optical disc, local network, and the internet using only a few buttons.
–quoted from http://xbmc.org/
Let’s discuss installation. The XBMC installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and we’ll take it one step at a time.
Now you have it installed, and you can run this from your local machine without doing one thing more. From here on, it’s all about customization, which is completely specific to your own personal taste. There are so many things to customize within XBMC that I could never cover them all here, however I will leave you with a link to some of the options you’ll have going forward. Whether you want to play video games, watch live TV, setup remote controls, sync any of this media across your house, or just customize the look with skins, this Wiki page has it all.
There you have it! This should give you a fully functional XBMC to rule them all.
Enjoy!
…and if you don’t, please write me to tell me how horrible it is and what parts you merely dislike as well as the parts that you utterly despise.
~ matt
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I previously posted a quick cheat sheet for installing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04, and will be using that as my base OS for this post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other linux variations.
Then we went over how to quickly and easily install your very own SABnzbd instance, how to install Sick Beard to handle your TV show downloads, and how to install CouchPotato to handle your movie downloads. Now we’ll cover how to install Headphones to handle your music downloads.
Headphones is a SABnzbd add-on that automates your music downloading. It’s written in Python so it works on pretty much all systems, and it’s easy to setup and configure. You can import all your favorite artists from iTunes, and keep an eye out for any new albums they might be releasing.
–quoted from https://github.com/rembo10/headphones/wiki
Let’s discuss installation. The Headphones installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and we’ll take it one step at a time.
There you have it! This should give you a fully functional Headphones setup. Now on to XBMC (Media Center) to rule them all.
Enjoy!
…and if you don’t, please write me to tell me how horrible it is and what parts you merely dislike as well as the parts that you utterly despise.
~ matt
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I previously posted a quick cheat sheet for installing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04, and will be using that as my base OS for this post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other linux variations.
Then we went over how to quickly and easily install your very own SABnzbd instance, and how to install Sick Beard to handle your TV show downloads. Now we’ll cover how to install CouchPotato to handle your movie downloads.
CouchPotato is an automatic NZB and torrent downloader. You can keep a “want to watch”-list and it will search for NZBs/torrents of these items every X hours. Once a correct release is found, matching the correct quality, it will send it to SABnzbd or download the .nzb or .torrent to a specified directory.
–quoted from http://couchpota.to/
Let’s discuss installation. The CouchPotato installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and we’ll take it one step at a time.
There you have it! This should give you a fully functional CouchPotato setup. Now on to the others: Headphones (Music), and finally XBMC (Media Center) to rule them all.
Enjoy!
…and if you don’t, please write me to tell me how horrible it is and what parts you merely dislike as well as the parts that you utterly despise.
~ matt
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I previously posted a quick cheat sheet for installing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04, and will be using that as my base OS for this post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other linux variations.
Then we went over how to quickly and easily install your very own SABnzbd instance. Now we’ll cover how to install Sick Beard to handle your TV show downloads.
Sick Beard is a PVR for newsgroup users (with limited torrent support). It watches for new episodes of your favorite shows and when they are posted it downloads them, sorts and renames them, and optionally generates metadata for them.
–quoted from http://sickbeard.com/
Let’s discuss installation. The Sick Beard installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and we’ll take it one step at a time.
There you have it! This should give you a fully functional Sick Beard setup. Now on to the others: CouchPotato (Movies), Headphones (Music), and finally XBMC (Media Center) to rule them all.
Enjoy!
…and if you don’t, please write me to tell me how horrible it is and what parts you merely dislike as well as the parts that you utterly despise.
~ matt
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I previously posted a quick cheat sheet for installing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04, and will be using that as my base OS for this post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other linux variations.
SABnzbd is an Open Source Binary Newsreader written in Python. SABnzbd makes Usenet as simple and streamlined as possible by automating everything we can. All you have to do is add an .nzb. SABnzbd takes over from there, where it will be automatically downloaded, verified, repaired, extracted and filed away with zero human interaction.
–quoted from http://sabnzbd.org/
SABnzbd is basically, a Usenet client. Meaning that it is to the Usenet (an old school pre-www BBS-like worldwide distributed Internet discussion system), what Chromium/Chrome/Firefox are to the web.
Let’s discuss installation. The SABnzbd installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and we’ll take it one step at a time.
There you have it! This should give you a fully functional SABnzbd setup, and the groundwork for other fine products like Sick Beard (TV), CouchPotato (Movies), Headphones (Music), and finally XBMC (Media Center) to rule them all.
Enjoy!
…and if you don’t, please write me to tell me how horrible it is and what parts you merely dislike as well as the parts that you utterly despise.
~ matt
So you’ve got a decent machine and you’re wanting to try out this crazy Linux thing to build a home media center. I’ve used various Linux distributions for various projects, and they all have their strengths. If you’re a noob to the wonderful world of Linux, I’d recommend you start out with one of the many Ubuntu varieties. They have multiple versions for whatever environment and look you prefer. If you’re the type who likes things to ‘just work,’ aka the Mac type, Ubuntu (Gnome) is for you. Love getting buried in the details and customizing every nook and cranny of your workspace, Kubuntu (KDE) is your new best friend. Linux built for the classroom computer lab is dubbed Edubuntu (Gnome). Wanting to test Linux on an old machine before replacing the OS on your main box isn’t a crime, but you may want to choose Xubuntu (XFCE) or Lubuntu (LXDE). You can even run this stuff on your Android phone or TV.They also have derivatives for multimedia production, Ubuntu Studio (Gnome), and even Mythbuntu for building that home theater MythTV PC you’ve always wanted. Last but definitely not least, if you’ve got a rack that needs new life breathed into it, try the Ubuntu Server Edition.
We’ll be discussing the Ubuntu Desktop 64-bit Edition 12.04 primarily using the Gnome Desktop Environment in the post, however most is very comparable if not identical to the other variations.
Let’s discuss installation. The Ubuntu installation is a piece of cake (or pie if you prefer) and only a couple areas foul folks up.
As always, feel free to comment or ask questions about any of the ideas shared in this post.
~matt
Today’s my wife’s birthday and I just wanted to wish her a quick Happy Birthday.
Happy Birthday Deanna!
I love you!
~matt