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Thank you for the reply. Your assessment of the data held on the discs is a fair one in that they change infrequently and, largely, get added to and not deleted (music, photos, etc). What I would like is to automate as much as possible the mirroring between the two hard drives so that adding (say) a music folder to one automatically gets replicated on the other, and that I do this simply by dragging and dropping the file over WiFi from my PC....

Hi the momento also does windows sideshow and if you run 'sidesqeeze' found in the forums it sends an Rss feed of album title, artist, track to photo frame. Now working on trying to get vinyl Identification software to sent images to photoframe. The currently available ones require some key clicks to display info, I want to have system monitor output via mike or headphone output into pc and auto identify vinyl. I have this working...

Don't have anything to measure, so have to trust the values from wikipedia. "2.3w idle no attached devices, 7.0w running at 100% CPU utilization" The values can also be found in their forums by different people having measured it.

Ah, I see what you mean with 'backup' - sort of a security copy, that's fair enough then. Just be aware of the limitations and possible drawbacks and risks of this approach. Two hard disks that mirror each other without your intervention is called RAID1, and mdadm can set that up easily enough. Just choose two disks of similar size, ideally identical units, and a few commands later you will have a fully mirrored setup. This...

Quote: Originally Posted by Shellness Meanwhile, concerning the use of a different flash for the boot process, it looks as though this has the potential to free up a SATA socket which looks like a handy feature should I ever need a third slot. I presume that pointing the CPU at the USB drive to find the boot code is simple? Yes, that's easy. You just need to make sure that the machine is capable of booting from a USB device. As far as I...

Just mailed this to two Photo Frame companys: http://www.i-gala.com/ and http://www.estarling.com/index.sf Quote: "....... Photo frame plugin idea - Opensource ! Hi ! Would it be technically possible / interesting for you to develop a Squeezebox / Squeezeserver "Cover Art Plug-In" to your photo frame? The ability to see Album, Artist, Cover Art ect. on your photo frame together with simple navigation possibilities:...

Why not make it yourself easy. I bought a cheap nas like the DNS-323. It is 2 bay and there is an active forum and a simple software hack called funplug which opens the box and runs for example rsync and make a backup of one disk to the other automatically overnight. It is all documented very well, even for non linux techies. You could run SBS on the DNS but it is very slow so i recommend buying a Sheevaplug computer to run SBS. With this you...

RFiDJ - an imperceptible computing experiment in tactile music control using RFID & Squeezebox. Source & BOM included for others to play. http://roteno.com/?q=node/78

Great! Thank you for the detailed information. Seems like that's something even I can manage. Did you measure the power consumption of your sheeva + drive? It's always on, right?

Quote: Originally Posted by c3p0 Hi, I used a wifi photo frame and the HTML image of the squeezebox control page with a image caputure loop running. This basically captured the image and sent it to the wifi frame. I also captured the biography details page and album review page and set the timer to hold image for a few seconds. So basically you got album cover and details followed a few seconds later by the artist biography and after that by...