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9th March 2006, 10:58 PM
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 Build your own Web Server / Gateway for $220 or less It's not a polished article by a long shot. (it contains a new look I'm working on for my site at www.myblueroom.com ) To see the Elephant Web Server / Gateway with the possibility for use also as a home automation controller; click on the Elephant button on the left hand side of the page. If you have a Cable / DSL modem then this article might be of interest. (It replaces your router) I've been using one for about a year, just wanted to share how it's done. Total cost with software is less than $220 Canadian. You can program it in Perl, PHP, and more. You configure it with your browser. With a little programming you could connect it to any serial based home automation devices and control / monitor them from anywhere. Hey it's cheaper and far more capable than a Stargate Web-Xpander $299 (Rabbit Based Ethernet to RS232 device). Ultimately I would like to control the Cricket Thermostat and all the other communications enabled devices on my site. As I have the firmware I'll release as open source (GNU Hardware, firmware) I think this way we can all benifit and get very reliable HA devices around the home. (*look for the Projects / Elephant tab)
__________________ Bill Home of the Firefly PIC Tutor Inchworm ICD2 http://www.blueroomelectronics.com | |
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10th March 2006, 12:03 AM
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| This is nice, but it seems pretty basic. The instructions boil down to, buy cheap computer with two network cards, install between modem and hub, install clarkconnect software. If you're actually into this stuff, I would suggest getting a more popular linux distro and setting it up with this stuff yourself. At least get something that there are popular rpm's available for.
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10th March 2006, 03:34 AM
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As for basic did you look at the clark connect site for the feature list? For a home server what's it missing? A microsoft IIS solution would cost a fortune.
__________________ Bill Home of the Firefly PIC Tutor Inchworm ICD2 http://www.blueroomelectronics.com | ||
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10th March 2006, 01:48 PM
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| Like any preconfigured product, as long as you are comfortable with what's offered, nothing is missing. As for what some other people may want, BOINC or other distributed computing client, VOIP server, webcamera security server, better dbase management or even another dbase, BitTorrent or other P2P client, VNC over SSH management, distributed hardware monitor, game servers... the list of different configurations that someone might want are endless. Though I haven't run the software, it sounds like the only access you have to manage the system, other than their web management, is using an SSH terminal session. I'm just suggesting that there are people better off installing fedora and these applications seperately, if they want to have more control of their server.
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10th March 2006, 03:10 PM
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| Ill stick with my SLUG (£50 + £80 for external HD) it runs a full linux distro and I can control it (via SSH) from work. Use it to download torrents overnight and as a webserver and a SMB server as well as a music server | |
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10th March 2006, 10:12 PM
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__________________ Bill Home of the Firefly PIC Tutor Inchworm ICD2 http://www.blueroomelectronics.com | ||
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