A introduction into LinuxMCE

LinuxMCE is a whole home automation suite.
It the 'digital glue' between your media and all of your electrical appliances.
It includes full featured solutions for:

Media

  • Organize media with special metadata tags
  • View/Listen to media in any room
  • Media automatically follows you through your home
  • New media is automatically detected - even if it's on other devices like another computer on your network or Network Attached Storage (NAS)
  • Control all your A/V gear through LinuxMCE
  • (using HDMI-CEC, IR, USB, Ethernet, or RS-232) including automatically powering everything on and setting the proper inputs on each device

Security

  • Monitor sensors and trigger events
  • Monitor security cameras

Telecomunication

  • Use VoIP phones anywhere in your home with minimal setup
  • Voicemail, call forwarding, advanced caller ID

Network Management

  • Take the place of a standard home router
  • Advanced firewall
  • Advanced Quality of Service (QoS) to make sure your bandwidth is used effectively 
  • (especially important for VoIP)
  • Manage networked storage (such as NAS devices)

Home Control and Automation

  • Control climate and lighting throughout your entire home

 

LinuxMCE provides all this functionality by controlling 

all kinds of devices throughout the home including:

  • LinuxMCE Core Computer
  • LinuxMCE Media Director Computers
  • LinuxMCE Orbiters (Fancy remotes)
    • Nokia 770/N800/N810
    • Various PDAs (such as IPAQ 5550 and IPAQ hx2410)
    • Various Bluetooth capable mobile phones
      (including Nokia E65, N70, N73, 6620, 7650)
    • The Web Orbiter
    • Various other devices
  • Networked storage (including Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices)
  • A/V Equipment (TVs, Receivers, Cable Boxes, etc)
    • HDMI-CEC
    • Using Infrared (IR)
    • Using RS-232 (Serial)
    • Using Ethernet (Network)
    • Using USB
  • TV Capture Devices
  • Lighting Automation
    • Using X10
    • Using Z-Wave
    • Using Insteon
    • Using various other protocols
    • See also: Automation
  • HVAC (Climate Control)Automation
  • Security Systems or Individual Sensors
  • Surveillance Cameras (IP, Firewire, video capture board, etc)
  • VoIP Phones and Service Providers

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Top News

April
17
2015

Do you want to help the project to the next level of low powered, silent, ARM based Media Directors?

February
06
2015

We made some progress regarding the OwnCloud integration into LinuxMCE.

November
24
2014

HDMI-CEC control is now available in LinuxMCE 1204.

November
24
2014

We're excited to announce preliminary support for the Raspberry Pi,