I’ve recently taken a free trial from Netflix UK with the intention of evaluating it as a replacement for Sky Movies. I have a couple of devices I can play it on, but last night I chose to try it on my Wii console (because I couldn’t be bothered to connect my laptop to the TV). I am thinking it is time to shift my TV to Virgin Media (due to my flaky Sky+HD box) and VM want a wallet busting £30 per month for the Sky Movies Collection. If new movies are what you are looking for, then Netflix …
Its the wee small hours and I really should be in bed but I have just installed DemoPad on my iPhone (and iPad) and been playing with trying to get it to control my LightwaveRF installation. It works! What I needed to do was find out the actual IP address of my LightwaveRF WiFi Link (because DemoPad doesn’t currently support UDP broadcasts) and I had to run DemoPad on a device already authorised by the WiFi link (i.e my iPhone rather than iPad). I added a couple of simple buttons to the screen, configured them to send the correct UDP …
I now have a full Voice Over IP setup at home that I am happy with. I will blog technical details later, but I wanted to put something up about what I have. At the core of the system is a Trixbox virtual machine running on my VMWare VSphere server in the loft. I currently have four handsets connected to this. A Grandstream GXP2000 Enterprise IP Phone upstairs which is connected to a Power Over Ethernet switch, one downstairs (connected via the wireless network) a bog standard analog handset connected to a SIP ATA (more about that in a sec) …
I have been playing with logging this week. FHEM now automatically records the measured temperature, the desired temperature (set point) and actuator levels for each room to Pachube.com (pronounced Patch Bay). With the data held on Pachube, I can do various things like build dynamic graphs for display on this site. At the moment, I am using a Pachube app which displays the graphs using flash, but being an iOS user, this is less than optimal. You can view the current temperatures in my three bed terrace by clicking the following link: Household Temperature Graphs Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post …