I also upgraded my Epson HC720 projector to the newer Epson Home Cinema 3500 which is a light cannon. My screen is set to 12v trigger from my PJ $200 and their newer slow gearing I am sure will be more robust. I ordered a Elite Screens 100 Inch 16:9 Spectrum Electric from amazon This summer we plan on staying home some more and finishing out backyard and installing my network rack in the office.įinally made a change, my Elite Screen 100" Vmax2 had a gear die, and wouldnt raise or low. This last year has been crazy and so other than getting a Kinect my setup has stayed the same, we have traveled way too much. I need to add my sprinklers, garage door, front door, outdoor lighting and motion sensors to my system before I am happy with it. I even have an alarm that wakes us up, the bedroom light gradually turns on over a 30 min period of time and the heater comes on (in the winter) When the wife and I go to be i just pull out my iPhone and run an event for all lights off and that is it. I never turn any lights off with the switch. I have a Trane Z-wave Tstat and it works great. I have had 1 light switch go out (1 of 24) in the year and a half that i have had them. The iPad and iPhone clients are great and require almost 0 setup to get working. Everything has worked great love my z-wave/HS setup. Finally i called their supervisor and he came out on a saturday and installed and paired my m-card to my Ceton. I called them and they scheduled a truck roll for the next week to bring me a M-card but the 2 times they came the tech didnt have a m-card! Pissed me off to no end.
It worked great, i wanted to d oa self install from comcast, so i waited in a hour line at my local shop to get a M-Card and they gave me a S-Card. Not to meantion actually being able to watch/record Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs!!! I installed remote potato with it and being able to stream ESPNHD to my iPad at work is great!
After the Holidays I will update my pictures and add new got it about a month ago. Have a great Christmas and thanks for the continual feedback. In 2 weeks, after snowmobiling and snowboarding at Grand Targhee, I will be installing my home audio setup for complete home audio with an Elan 6 channel amp and a squeezebox duet and 10 in ceiling speaker, so that should be fun. Probably this summer I will be upgrading.
I was looking at the new line up of epson 1080p PJs but their price and lumens keeps me from ditching my 720 HC just yet. This would consolidate 2 servers (physical) in to 1 and all more sandboxing for my HomeSeer and torrent box I was thinking making my server run Hyper V with 1 VM as WHS v2 for backups and DNS forwarding, 2nd VM as W7+ flexraid (dont know too much about flexraid but it seems like a good option), 3rd VM for torrent and a 4th VM for my HomeSeer server. I am in wait and see mode for my WHS, it is currently running vial but with DE remove I am going to have to look else where for my storage pool
My setup for my HTPC still is not as bullet proof as i would like but there will alway be work to be done.Īdded 2x 2TB WD greens with a USB 3.0 dock to do weekly backups of my 600+ movie collection. the SSD OS drive makes a huge difference in guide scrolling delay. I added a 32gb Kingston SSD as an OS drive and a 1TB green for a TV recording drive and upgraded to a ATI 5570 card for full bitstreaming. That with the mymovies ipad app with play to features are the 2 major use case changes to our HTPC setup and home theater in years. so that will be a new revolution in my HTPC. So it looks like the next batch of ceton cards will have mine in it.