sjj31a Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I installed a second popcorn hour and a 2TB LaCie NAS drive (plugged directly into a Gigabit Ethernet Switch). I do not have any video matrix switches. What I got to thinking was could I hit the same movie in 2 different spots from a single IFO file on the NAS and still have great performance. Bottom line, I did it and it streamed to both, different places in the movie (1 at the beginning and the other 1/2 way through) and performed perfectly. I am going to add one more unit and I am then going to try to do with 3. The core of my system is still the 777 DVD but the popcorn hours serve very specific rooms of high activity where conflicts often occur re: excercise room, great room, kids family room on the 777, hence this solves it. Great solution for less than $1500 (for all 3, the dealer programming time and the 2TB NAS).The only downside is the interface is still very lame ..... please someone, 3rd party etc integrate with C4!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Have you installed 'Yet Another Movie Jukebox' or anything similar? It makes the interface much better.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjj31a Posted January 10, 2009 Author Share Posted January 10, 2009 I have not yet installed. I was actually reviewing the instructions today and this seems somewhat beyond my technical expertise. Do you know a dealer with expertise in this that you could recommend? I am willing to pay :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 Haha nope.. I dont even have my system set up yet, Ive just been trying to find the optimal video distribution solution. I am leaning towards installing XMBC on a dedicated PC and using that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted January 10, 2009 Share Posted January 10, 2009 I and Control4 have both attempted to talk with the Popcorn Hour developers directly - they are not interested at all, in opening up the back end of the device to allow it to integrate into Control4, as the Netgear EVA8000 currently does. You are free to contact them and work them some more and try and convince them - as Control4 was quite interested in getting them to do this - but Control4 will not do the "hack" method which is unsupported, and thus we'll never see a driver written for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akg4y Posted January 11, 2009 Share Posted January 11, 2009 slemay, when you say you approached Popcorn Hour developers do you mean Sybas or the hardware developers? If it was just the hardware folks then what about another form of the hardware such as IoBox? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 Sybas - the people that OEM the software to various hardware developers. Which we (I) would have thought would be open to it - help sells more of their software on many more platforms... You'll see some public posts in their forums from me (though not all was done there - 1/2 was done via private email). Feel free to post a reply in their public forums stressing them you'd like to see it. Maybe if enough people request it, they'll re-consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kimi Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 sjj31a,The installation for the YAMJ seems much more complicated than it actually is, which is part of why they need a decent integration with C4. Anyway, just follow the instructions step by step and if you run into any problems you are sure to find a solution in their forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Posted January 12, 2009 Share Posted January 12, 2009 If we get more threads posted on http://www.networkedmediatank.com/ I think they’ll open there eyes and enable the proper protocols in order for your automation system to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
str1der Posted January 13, 2009 Share Posted January 13, 2009 Has anyone hooked up Boxee with Control4? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slemay Posted January 14, 2009 Share Posted January 14, 2009 Boxee is just a GUI ontop of XBMC - install that instead - and it'll integrate perfectly with Control4!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxspivak Posted January 15, 2009 Share Posted January 15, 2009 Yes, but boxee has a bunch of internet content streams preconfigured. Now, whether you care or not is up to you. The content is eh and quality is pretty crappy, esp. on a front proj. system. But some folks like this sort of stuff. I played with an Apple TV for two weeks with both XBMC and Boxee. In the end I didn't like it enough to keep it - back to the Apple Store it went. Waiting for EVA9150.Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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