HP ProLiant MicroServer

abs1 said:
The bluetooth ps3 remote is very cool, i'm currently rendering my ps3 obsolete because of Cinavia. Which bluetooth dongle are you using ?

Also ordered myself a Hp Microserver from Hp for a very sweet deal hope it gets delivered without hiccups as certain members stated in previous post, if all goes well I will have scooped one for R1154.10 including delivery.

Avidly following this thread and kudo's to everyone for setting up the wiki and member contribution towards it, you guys rock!!!!
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I've got a very old Gigabyte bluetooth dongle circa 2006 I think. My only trouble is getting the remote to sleep. I'm using PS3 Remote Application/Blumote, and I don't think the remote ever goes into sleep. I'm going to try eventGhost today and see if that works any better.

I never heard of Cinavia before. Just checked it out on Wikipedia. Does the PS3 show you a message when play a "backed up" copy of a movie or what does it do?
 
mh348 said:
Can someone please suggest which remote I should go for ? I'll probably buy another harmony remote, but first I need to a cheap remote that is compatible with Openelec. Then I'll just use the IR receiver with the Harmony remote.
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*bump*
 
recre8 said:
I've got a very old Gigabyte bluetooth dongle circa 2006 I think. My only trouble is getting the remote to sleep. I'm using PS3 Remote Application/Blumote, and I don't think the remote ever goes into sleep. I'm going to try eventGhost today and see if that works any better.

I never heard of Cinavia before. Just checked it out on Wikipedia. Does the PS3 show you a message when play a "backed up" copy of a movie or what does it do?
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Unfortunately I thinks it is inapropriate to discuss Cinavia work arounds in this thread but what it entails it is sony's drm protection where they embed a watermark in the audio stream which the cinavia software detects and mutes the audio on the ps3 and display a message that the content is not allowed to be played on the device. If you have the original disc though all your content will play. Im not obliged to go into too much detail and just want to focus on getting my Hp microserver off the ground.

Are the following drives any good, I want to start off just with a downloading and streaming server for now and next year purchase another Hp microserver for xmbc live / pseudo tv.

"Western Digital CAVIAR GP AV 2TB SATA 3.5" Hard Drive"

Specsheet doesn't show any rotational speeds other than intellipower. Drives are becoming quite expensive and these are retailing for about R900 incl vat.

Apparently these drives were designed for 24/7 video streaming with atleast 40% powersaving but how this translates into performance I have no Idea, your guys thoughts?
 
tjiPPi said:
I'm thinking of putting in a Gigabyte GT 210, but the sound output over HDMI will not work for me.
My amp only does HDMI pass-through and my SO is not going to agree to an amp upgrade. I would like to be able to use S/PDIF via coax or optical.
What sound card would you recommend (must support DTS) that will fit in the server together with the gpu?
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I'm using an external USB sound adapter, brilliant little thing, works out the box in linux.

http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/439

R288 from Sybaritic

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Simple USB 2.0 Connection (Backwards Compatible w/ USB 1.1)
7.1 Channel Surround Sound
Full-Duplex Playback/Record
Support 48/44.1 KHz Sampling Rates For Both Playbacks and Recordings
SPDIF Optical Digital Input And Output
Line-In Input For Direct Recordings
Separate Left And Right Microphone Inputs For True Stereo Recordings
3.5mm Jack For Your Headphones
 
Joe Soap price of HP ProLiant MicroServer now R1299.00 incl. @ HPShop.
 
rodga said:
whats the new one?
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http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/us/en/sm/WF05a/15351-15351-4237916-4237918-4237917-4248009.html

Upgraded to processor to 1.5GHz. They are probably clearing stocks before the new one arrives.

Edit: Looks like both models have the same 150W PSU.

HP have recently updated their Proliant Microserver to sport a slightly nippier processor. As well as the 250Gb SATA drive it also now comes with 2Gb RAM as standard – although if you’re thinking of using one for a home lab Virtual Infrastructure you’d need to replace that with 2 x 4Gb sticks anyway.
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http://www.vspecialist.co.uk/new-hp-proliant-microserver-n40l/
 
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Broadcom said:
I'm using an external USB sound adapter, brilliant little thing, works out the box in linux.

http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/439

R288 from Sybaritic

Code: 
Simple USB 2.0 Connection (Backwards Compatible w/ USB 1.1)
7.1 Channel Surround Sound
Full-Duplex Playback/Record
Support 48/44.1 KHz Sampling Rates For Both Playbacks and Recordings
SPDIF Optical Digital Input And Output
Line-In Input For Direct Recordings
Separate Left And Right Microphone Inputs For True Stereo Recordings
3.5mm Jack For Your Headphones
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tjiPPi I this is a winner! I think a USB soundcard will come in a lot cheaper and easier to find!
 
rodga said:
I want to use one as a htpc
as per your thread

which one would be prefered
better cpu or better psu??
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Either, the graphics card you use will make the most difference!

Given the choice at the same price for a HTPC I'd opt for the 1.5Ghz one
 
SomeoneEls said:
tjiPPi I this is a winner! I think a USB soundcard will come in a lot cheaper and easier to find!
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Broadcom said:
I'm using an external USB sound adapter, brilliant little thing, works out the box in linux.

http://www.vantecusa.com/en/product/view_detail/439

R288 from Sybaritic

Code: 
Simple USB 2.0 Connection (Backwards Compatible w/ USB 1.1)
7.1 Channel Surround Sound
Full-Duplex Playback/Record
Support 48/44.1 KHz Sampling Rates For Both Playbacks and Recordings
SPDIF Optical Digital Input And Output
Line-In Input For Direct Recordings
Separate Left And Right Microphone Inputs For True Stereo Recordings
3.5mm Jack For Your Headphones
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Ah, thanks for this, it does indeed seem like the winner.

I also think I might wait for the new 1.5Ghz version of the server...
 
I picked up two of these things, with a view to using one as a NAS and the other as an HTPC. I'm a developer by trade, so my hardware/nuts and bolts knowledge isn't great, but it seems so easy that I figured I'd give it a go.

Here's my proposed configuration:

NAS
FreeNAS on flash
4 x 2TB HDDs in RAID 5 configuration
Stock RAM

HTPC
OpenELEC on HDD
Stock HDD
4TB RAM
Graphics card: MSI GeForce GT 520 LP 1024MB DDR3
Thinking about a BluRay or DVD drive?

From what I've read, I'm not trying to do anything too weird, and have chosen pretty standard components mostly, so I'm hoping for the best. Two outstanding questions, though:

First, on the BluRay/DVD thing. I actually play these with some frequency, so it would be awesome to include this functionality. I'm getting conflicting answers as to whether/to what extent BluRay drives can be supported on OpenELEC. Has anyone done this? Do we know which drives, if any, work? I could pretty easily live with just a DVD drive. It's mostly to accommodate my antiquated habit of walking up the road and renting stuff (call me primitive).

Second, I would love to be able to run things wirelessly, at least to some extent. The three issues I imagine I'd face are (a) finding a wireless NIC to install in these things (I know there was talk about this ages ago in the thread, but I can't find it), (b) getting drivers for the NIC into OpenELEC, and (c) the speeds required to stream media from the NAS to the HTPC. Here I've also got conflicting responses: some people have said that doing this over wifi makes things totally unusable, and others have said it's worked fine for them. Any anecdotes from you guys? The NAS would be connected via cable, somewhere else (not too far) in the house, and the HTPC would be next to the TV. If the communication between them could be wireless, it would be great.
 
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