December 2004
Beginner
336 pages
14h 32m
English
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Index
T
temperature (see weather, scheduled
audio reporting)
Thimm, Axel, 158, 160
Tiny Personal Firewall, 265
TiVo-like radio (see FM radio)
TiVo (see HTPC, Linux-based; HTPC,
Windows-based)
tv plugin, 143
U
UIRT2, 112, 113–119
assembling the circuit, 113–115
building the external connections, 118
Girder and, 125
mounting in a project box, 116–118
programming the Programmable
Integrated Circuit (PIC) chip,
115–116
Type A, 113
Type B, 113
Universal Infrared Transceiver (see
UIRT2)
V
vgmuseum.com, 151
video cameras (see cameras)
video caption tools, 296
video capture, 257–258
installing card, 257
wireless video receiver, 258
Video for Linux, 182
video off-site storage, 298–301
video playback, 269–270
playback control (see playback
control)
video receiver, wireless, 48, 258
video transfer, 258–269
configuring network, 264–269
configuring firewall, 267–269
configuring static IP address,
265–267
securing system, 264
Helix Producer Basic, 261–263
Helix Universal Server Basic, 259
Virtual VCR, 296
W
wall switch, replacing, 6
weather, scheduled audio reporting,
75–89
distributing audio from computer to
bedroom, 83–85
extensions to project, 88
materials for project, 89
scheduling, 85–87
software versions for project, 89
speech interface, 80–83
temperature retrieval application,
78–80
webcam, configuring, 51–53
webcam32, 259
webcam software packages, 259
web pages
configuring, 279
default page script, 225
display script, 219–222, 226
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