[ale] Good think clients to use for house automation/kids/tv

[Richard Bronosky]

Gmail actually showed me an ad for this while I was reading the OP's message:
http://www.thinlabs.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=37&Itemid=62

On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 8:33 AM, William Fragakis <william at fragakis.com> wrote:
> oops, bad link for the msi. That's a dual core. A single core will do
> just fine. Newegg seems out of them at the moment. Dual cores will do if
> you need to run the apps locally (on the client not the server) for some
> reason.
>
> regards,
> William
>
> On Fri, 2010-06-25 at 02:07 -0400, jrtroberts wrote:
>> I am working with a friend of mine to slowly get his house setup for
>> home automation.  He is trying to get his house setup as a demo house
>> for home automation packages, an entrepreneurial business he owns.  He
>> is not the most tech savvy guy I have ever met, but he has some money
>> and a strong desire to make this work.  I was hoping that someone at ALE
>> has had some experience with thin clients and home automation with linux.
>>
>> He has two daughters in grade school and would like them to have thin
>> clients in their rooms.  He would also like to have streaming video to
>> his TV's and possibly some other thin clients for things such as
>> security management, lighting control, sprinkler control, and anything
>> else he can roll into the home automation package.  I am aware that he
>> may not need thin clients for all of this, but I would still like to
>> understand my options.
>>
>> His primary system is an Ubuntu 9.10x64 desktop system.  Because issues
>> with the mobo and 10.04 we cannot upgrade until drivers and other issues
>> are figured out on the linux side.  It is a core2 quad with 8 gigs of
>> ram, 2 gig nics, and plenty of storage capacity.  I am hoping that
>> setting up roaming user accounts and terminal services is a fairly
>> straight forward task.  Whether it is or not, I could use some input on
>> this subject as well.
>>
>> The more important issue is pricing or building the thin clients.  Is
>> there a good company to look into when buying thin clients for this type
>> of environment.  I am very inexperienced with this type of hardware and
>> generally inexperienced with linux as whole.  Any help would be greatly
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Joshua Roberts
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