Comments on: Ultimate Home Automation Server: The $500 Mac Mini, Part III https://nerdvittles.com/ultimate-home-automation-server-the-mac-mini/ Ward Mundy's Technobabblelog Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:23:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Jay https://nerdvittles.com/ultimate-home-automation-server-the-mac-mini/comment-page-1/#comment-2936 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 07:23:13 +0000 http://nerdvittles.com/?p=17#comment-2936 Thank you for all the information. It’s allot of work to write all this stuff and help people out. I really appreciate it. You write in a way that is easy to understand and you’re very detailed in your research and planning too. This helps avoid mistakes. By the way, Radio Shack sells X-10 compatible stuff as well … This is how I found out about it years ago.

]]> By: jedillwag https://nerdvittles.com/ultimate-home-automation-server-the-mac-mini/comment-page-1/#comment-49 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 15:42:46 +0000 http://nerdvittles.com/?p=17#comment-49 This is awesome

You do a great job of explaining, and are very informative.

I do have a question, How do you control the Mac mini from a PDA. (http://www.xlobby.com)

Example
1. You come home at night. The driveway sensor tells the Mac mini to turn on certain lights and appliances.
driveway sensor can also be used for intruder alert
2. You sit down on your couch, and want to turn off some light that has been inadvertently or purposely turned on. How can you use a PDA to turn this off.

This might be for the Media Center
Also with this PDA can you tell the mini Mac with a air port extreme card, and your itunes library to output audio to your stereo located in the living room. This is where you would have a airport express card.
And just to let you know I could not get a divx HD, or Nero digital HD (H.264) to play on the 1.42GHz PowerPC G4 512MB DDR333 SDRAM. It was very close to playing and I really think a bump in RAM to 1Gig would play.

[WM: Haven’t been keeping up with the PDA marketplace since I got a Treo 650 smartphone, but … to do this on my Treo or any other smartphone or PDA with Bluetooth, all you need is Salling Clicker. Take a look at their site which explains how to do the couch potato-type stuff as well as how to create Media Center magic tricks with Squeezebox or Airport Express.]

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