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
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
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