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Just got my HP MediaSmart Server LX195
By Ylian Saint-hilaire (Intel) (246 posts) on December 17, 2009 at 4:37 pm
(I just noticed this is my 100th post on my blog! - I am heading out to celebrate!)
This morning I received the HP Media Smart LX195 server. It's your basic Microsoft Windows Home Server with ATOM processor and 1Gig of RAM. I finaly can try installing an add-in on the real device. So far, the installation was easy and it all works fine. In the last few days I built myself a WHS control along with a small hosting application that would host the control for development. The same hosting application that runs the control also includes the code to change WHSLogo to 1 (see previous blog). So that app does double duty with a command line argument. I added the command line in the post-build script of my installer and it creates the installer in one easy step... just hit compile.
Ok, now I got to start making my add-in do something interesting. I am still working out the available user interface controls. The one thing I have hit so far that was unexpected is when I try to trap all keyboard keys to a single control. I am trying to host a VT100 terminal within the add-in so I can remotly boot a computer to BIOS and mess around with it's BIOS settings from within WHS (how cool is that!). But when I put my terminal control in the add-in and press "S", it causes the settings box to pop-up, as if that key was being trapped by the hosting environment before I get to say I am handling it. The "H" key also has this problem, but most other keys are handled correctly by the control. Anyway, still more work to be done to figure it out. I really home I don't have to pop-up a new window for the terminal and can keep everything within the add-in environment.
By the way, I am somewhat surprised that these devices used pretty much off-the -shelf components. I use an ITX motherboard for my home Media Central and now, the same board is running a hard disk. I am interested in looking at how much power this new device uses compared to how much I will attempt to save turning off my other PC's.
Ylian
Categories: Software Tools
Tags: Add-in, WHS, Windows Home Server
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