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Home Assistant Dashboard – Media Center

February 21, 2022May 6, 2022 No Comments

Another one of my favorite views from the Home Assistant dashboard – Media Center. One view to cover all media players in the house. Some virtual sensors track TV hours, individual streaming apps usage, plex users, etc. Integrations Apple TV 4K Android TV Spotify Sonos Echo devices as Alexa media players Plex Media Server Meural […]

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TV Ambient Lighting

January 25, 2022March 13, 2022 2 Comments

This project is a journey from an idea to a working prototype. When I started this project in 2017 with just a simple idea, I had no idea what I was getting myself into, but it’s been such a fun learning experience for me. Prototype This is how it started in 2017. I started with […]

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Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-2 Scrape

November 21, 2015May 5, 2022 No Comments

I’m sorry for taking too long to finish the second part of this series. I realize now that a lot of the media renamer tools from the previous post are obsolete or there are better alternatives. Also, some of them are not compatible across all OS. In this post, I will show you how to […]

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Organize Digital Video Library (Movies and TV Shows): Part-1 Rename

July 31, 2013March 16, 2022 3 Comments

Do you want your digital video library to look as good as this? Do you want to scrape your media for metadata (download metadata and artwork of TV shows and Movies) locally so that it is compatible with most media players and media center softwares such as Plex Media Center, XBMC, Windows Media Center, etc.?

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Play or Stream MKV videos on Xbox 360

December 31, 2012February 16, 2022 12 Comments

First of all, let me tell you, I was as disappointed as you might be when I found out that my Xbox 360 won’t play mkv file only because it chooses not to. (maybe because of licensing issues). So, without much hope, I tried to google for some workaround to make it play the mkv files, […]

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