When i first moved into my house i had a romantic view of my “connected home”<\/p>\n
I had all sorts of plans and ideas of how my 21st century home would work.<\/p>\n
I wanted to have a PC in the living room that would be connected to the television and display pictures, videos and music from another computer acting as a central store where my other devices (laptop, pocket pc) could all receive these media delights<\/p>\n
I wanted X10 modules that could control my lights, heating system, even my curtains!<\/p>\n
I wanted music being played to follow me around the house<\/p>\n
I thought this is actually quite feasible (and after some research it i think i could have done it) but some events in my life took away the main factors to realising my dream….TIME & MONEY<\/p>\n
So my plans were put on hold<\/p>\n
Fast forward and i actually realised that i have actually put part of this in place without realising<\/p>\n
My XBOX 360 sits downstairs in the living room where it recieves images, videos and music from my PC upstairs.<\/p>\n
The PC currently dual boots between Windows XP and one of the Vista BETAs<\/p>\n
At the weekend i also purchased a set of cordless headphones. The original idea behind this was so that i could play Xbox in the evenings as loud as i like without disturbing my other half or my daughter. The added bonus is that they are FM headphones (as opposed to infrared) so i could listen to music and have it “follow”me around the house.<\/p>\n
I know this is cheating a little but the great thing about this i have all this functionality and it didn’t cost me awful lot of money and was setup in no time at all<\/p>\n
Now all i need are some freebie X10 modules!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When i first moved into my house i had a romantic view of my “connected home” I had all sorts of plans and ideas of how my 21st century home would work. I wanted to have a PC in the living room that would be connected to the television and display pictures, videos and music<\/p>\n