HP ProLiant MicroServer

Can anyone recommend a really good WiFi USB 300n dongle they have bought locally for the HP Microserver?
 
Set everything up last night. Tried to install XBMCbuntu (eden beta 3), but ran into issues with the GUI. So I guess for the time being I'm going to run XBMClive darma while I wait for it to be fixed.

I'm hoping that with XBMCbuntu I'll be able to setup a media server running in the background with XBMC on top.
 
koogs said:
Is anyone using their MS as both a download machine and a HTPC for playback?

I want to use mine with Sickbeard for series dowloads and as a playback machine for media. The MS will be permanently hard wired to my router and connected to my AVR via HDMI.

I still havnt decided on what OS to use as yet. Researching my options.............
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me me me....

I have a MS with 2 * 3TB hard drives + 250 GB that came with it.
Put in 8GB RAM and Sapphire HD6450 Graphics Card
Got one of these esquire mini keyboards but dont really use it. More using the harmony 900 with hauppauge receiver.

Using Windows Home Server 2011. Have XBMC, Sickbeard, Couch Potato, SABNzbd+, uTorrent all tightly integrated.

Awesome, Cant believe I didnt do it sooner. All my episodes are waiting for me now, rather than me waiting for them like before.

I got them all setup so I can manage all of these apps/view all my cameras from anywhere in the country. Also, have all my ipcams recording to this little server.

Awesome device for the money...
 
iceman23 said:
me me me....

I have a MS with 2 * 3TB hard drives + 250 GB that came with it.
Put in 8GB RAM and Sapphire HD6450 Graphics Card
Got one of these esquire mini keyboards but dont really use it. More using the harmony 900 with hauppauge receiver.

Using Windows Home Server 2011. Have XBMC, Sickbeard, Couch Potato, SABNzbd+, uTorrent all tightly integrated.

Awesome, Cant believe I didnt do it sooner. All my episodes are waiting for me now, rather than me waiting for them like before.

I got them all setup so I can manage all of these apps/view all my cameras from anywhere in the country. Also, have all my ipcams recording to this little server.

Awesome device for the money...
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This is what I need. I'm currently running openelec while I wait for eden.

Do you think there's an advanatage running WHS + XBMC over Ubuntu + XBMC?

Is there a sleep mode or a lowe(er) power mode that WHS goes into when not in use? Will it power down the usb ports? I have two externals plugged in that are now always on as the microserver is always on - hence the question. Also will accessing the microserver over the network automatically wake it up from sleep?

I want to go with XBMCbuntu and then setup an automated downloader (http as I use downstorm). I also want to be able to pass dowloads to the machine via a web interface. Maybe later look into nzb. Will linux be able to do this? I'm trying not to go with WHS since its propietary and if windows is anything to go by, resource hungry. Also the new XBMCbuntu seems purpose built for what i'm trying to do.

All my other machines are Win7. I would also want to do automatic backups of personal files to the server.
 
iceman23 said:
me me me....

I have a MS with 2 * 3TB hard drives + 250 GB that came with it.
Put in 8GB RAM and Sapphire HD6450 Graphics Card
Got one of these esquire mini keyboards but dont really use it. More using the harmony 900 with hauppauge receiver.

Using Windows Home Server 2011. Have XBMC, Sickbeard, Couch Potato, SABNzbd+, uTorrent all tightly integrated.

Awesome, Cant believe I didnt do it sooner. All my episodes are waiting for me now, rather than me waiting for them like before.

I got them all setup so I can manage all of these apps/view all my cameras from anywhere in the country. Also, have all my ipcams recording to this little server.

Awesome device for the money...
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Is there a tutorial somewhere describing how to integrate all those apps?
 
nadimm said:
This is what I need. I'm currently running openelec while I wait for eden.

Do you think there's an advanatage running WHS + XBMC over Ubuntu + XBMC?

Is there a sleep mode or a lowe(er) power mode that WHS goes into when not in use? Will it power down the usb ports? I have two externals plugged in that are now always on as the microserver is always on - hence the question. Also will accessing the microserver over the network automatically wake it up from sleep?

I want to go with XBMCbuntu and then setup an automated downloader (http as I use downstorm). I also want to be able to pass dowloads to the machine via a web interface. Maybe later look into nzb. Will linux be able to do this? I'm trying not to go with WHS since its propietary and if windows is anything to go by, resource hungry. Also the new XBMCbuntu seems purpose built for what i'm trying to do.

All my other machines are Win7. I would also want to do automatic backups of personal files to the server.
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I am running Linux Mint 12 with XBMC and its working really well I have 3GB ram but the most its ever used is about 1GB even when downloading and watching 1080p content.

My setup is a bit different to what you want but I use qbittorrent which has a web interface you can access over the network to set downloads.

The MS does have wake up on lan but I'm sure it will probably take some tweaking to get it working right(I havent tried it)

You can do almost anything in Linux but if you stray from the most common features it usualy takes a bit of tweaking to get it to do what you want.

The best thing do do is try it and see how it goes.
 
Thanks. I've used wol on my old p4 running xbmc live via the Android remote. No setup was required.

Maybe openelec is different. Will give it a go.

Do you know if wol will/can be initiated automatically when attempting to access a microserver share over the network.
 
This is turning out to be some project. MS is setup and ready to go. I'm really liking this little machine and WHS is pretty cool as well. Couldn't get the "computer connector" working on my Windows 7 PC though. Spent the whole of last night trying to figure it out. Regedits, router settings, services settings and other "fixes" - all to no avail. Seems that it's a .NET 4 issue. I've had .NET issues before - uninstall/install doesn't help, its broken somewhere.

PC has also become a bit sluggish of late (more than two years since last win install), so lost my temper and did an image restore from Jul 2009. That went OK, but there are some issues...and obviously there is a lot of installing and updating to be done. I'm seriously considering buying (:eek:) Windows 7 and stop worrying about activations, which updates to do etc.

Any case, to come back to the MS - streams video perfectly to XBMC on AppleTV. Next project is to get iTunes running on the MS.
 
iceman23 said:
me me me....

I have a MS with 2 * 3TB hard drives + 250 GB that came with it.
Put in 8GB RAM and Sapphire HD6450 Graphics Card
Got one of these esquire mini keyboards but dont really use it. More using the harmony 900 with hauppauge receiver.

Using Windows Home Server 2011. Have XBMC, Sickbeard, Couch Potato, SABNzbd+, uTorrent all tightly integrated.

Awesome, Cant believe I didnt do it sooner. All my episodes are waiting for me now, rather than me waiting for them like before.

I got them all setup so I can manage all of these apps/view all my cameras from anywhere in the country. Also, have all my ipcams recording to this little server.

Awesome device for the money...
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My hardware is exactly the same as you except I have a GT520 graphics card.

I think I will go for Windows Home Server 2011 as I want a quick and easy install.

Which is the best place to buy this from?
 
I have found a flaw in my plan.

I often run a 3.5mm extension + headphones from my xbmc.

The microserver with hdmi didn't give me that option.

Solution usb sound card?
 
nadimm said:
I have found a flaw in my plan.

I often run a 3.5mm extension + headphones from my xbmc.

The microserver with hdmi didn't give me that option.

Solution usb sound card?
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I run the HDMI into a 4x2 matrix HDMI switch. The switch splits the video and audio into HDMI and Toslink on the first output (retains the audio on the HDMI too).
From there the Toslink hours to my amp and HDMI to projector (output 1).
The amp then goes to my Turtle Beach PX5 which transmits 7.1 to the PX5 headset wirelessly. Works wonders.
 
Mike Smit said:
I run the HDMI into a 4x2 matrix HDMI switch. The switch splits the video and audio into HDMI and Toslink on the first output (retains the audio on the HDMI too).
From there the Toslink hours to my amp and HDMI to projector (output 1).
The amp then goes to my Turtle Beach PX5 which transmits 7.1 to the PX5 headset wirelessly. Works wonders.
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Somehow I think I'm looking for a cheaper solution
 
what about a standard pci express sound card? should be enough space in there for this?
 
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