My Home - A series of posts.

Introduction 

So I've been meaning to write up a few blog posts about my setup here at home as I am starting to get pretty happy with things and I think it's about time I write it down.

Ever since I first saw Iron Man, like many people around the world, I wanted a smart house much like Tony Stark's house but as I lack the funds Tony has I have been settling for piece by piece constructing a apartment tailored to my desires.

In my quest to convert my apartment into a veritable geek cave, I have succeeded in setting up a few systems that I quite fond of that I will talk about a little in the course of this post.

All things mentioned in this and any following overview post will likely have a specific post about them.
If you want me to go into specifics for anything in particular send me a PM or comment on the overview article.


Media

The crowning piece of my setup right now must be my media setup, a system that has been redone at least three times so far, either to tweak settings, do a clean upgrade or something else.

The general setup is as follows:


Video: For video I use XBMC Version 12.0 (Frodo) with the aeon MQ4 skin by MarcosQui (I think)
I use the skin because I find it very modifiable and it's default look is also great looking.

Controlling XBMC I do from my tablet (Cube U30-GT Mini) using the official XBMC remote.


Audio: My Audio setup is actually twofold, a local system and a remote system. I will start by talking about the local system.

For my local setup I use my preferred music player; Winamp. To this day I can find few music players I like as much as winamp.
Winamp's configuration is pretty much default as of right now with the exception of one plugin.

When at my computer I use winamps own interface to control the music that's playing.
When I am elsewhere in my apartment or even closely outside I use my phone or tablet to control it using an android app called poweramp, this is where the plugin comes into play, for poweramp to work the ajaxamp plugin must be installed and configured.

Remotely I use a server software called subsonic for streaming music to my phone that I dont have locally on it. On occasion I will also use the web interface for subsonic if I am on my laptop.





That's all I will be writing today, It's getting late and I'm not sure what more to add.
Next article will likely go into what I use to control various other areas of my life, this will include my schedule, managing my files, phone management etc...