The Home Server
At Languid House, the “home server” is a Linux (RedHat 8) machine with a TV card, infra-red receiver, and a modem (phone) card that understands Caller-ID. The monitor and speakers are in the living room or bedroom but the noisy box is in the next room, with cables going through an outlet hole in the wall. It’s a TV that can be controlled with an ordinary remote (I use an old Sony remote I happened to have lying around). When a phone call comes in and I happen to be watching TV, the caller-ID information appears on the screen. (If I’m not watching TV, then a popup window appears on the screen.) If I decide not to answer, the computer is an answering machine: it plays the outgoing message to the caller and allows them to leave a message. I can listen to messages by viewing a webpage. It also houses my music collection, and I can control the music player with the remote.
- How to connect and setup an IR receiver so you can use a remote with your Linux machine.
- How to do web voicemail (and caller-ID on the TV).
Category: software