If you’ve seen the MediaSmart Server in retail stores, you’ve likely seen the demo units that are created to show off the sleek form factor and soothing blue glow of the server. These demo units are stripped down to pretty much just a shell with a power supply and LEDs. The motherboard is in the [...]
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Forum Moderator Nigel “Cougar” Wilks is at it again, this time with the beginnings of a series of tutorials that will guide EX470 and EX475 users on how to get the recent 2.5 Software Update running on their first generation MediaSmart Servers. Note that this is a work in progress and does not yet get [...]
It only took a few hours after the release of the 2.5 Software Update for enterprising individuals to dig deep into the workings of the new software and find ways to tweak and improve the experience. New forum member “BigKahuna” dropped two big tutorials on us, the first of which describes how to install additional [...]
One of the great community topics we’ve had going in the forums for quite a while is the “Show Off Your Server” topic, where members share pictures of their home servers, networking closets, and home theater setups. In the past couple of weeks we have had two forum members sharing their MediaSmart Servers and the [...]
Forum member Charles “cakalapati” has been selling his debug cables for the MediaSmart Server for 11 months with many satisfied customers. These cables connect to the onboard debug connector of the MediaSmart Server motherboard and allow VGA, PS2, and serial connectivity for troubleshooting problems with the home server.
Today Charles has announced the 2nd generation [...]
Forum member “dbone1026″ aka Damian has spent the last few months testing, evaluating, and comparing many of the different Media Center software packages that are available, and he’s been documenting this process the entire time with us in the forums. His reviews include detailed descriptions, impressions of the features and user experience, and several screenshots [...]
Forum member ScottLucky13 has posted a great tutorial on how to backup your Mac to any Windows Home Server. Owners of the EX48x MediaSmart Servers have a Mac backup feature built in, however it does not perform restorable image backups, only data backups, and requires OS X 10.5 or newer OS versions.
ScottLucky13’s method uses [...]
Power Pack 1 for Windows Home Server brought us the ability to back up the Shared Folders to a designed backup hard drive, however this is a process that the user must perform manually every time they want to take a backup. Forum member and moderator Cougar has found a way to automate the [...]
Forum member Diehard, inventor of the Popcorn Hour media streamer in a server is at it again. This time he is showing us how to use a hacked PSP as a USB monitor for the MediaSmart Server. This would have been very handy recently for another forum member who accidentally disabled his LAN connection, and [...]
Forum member Jacmay recently shared his new modification with us, which is a stainless steel base mounted to the bottom of the MediaSmart Server and includes several debug port connectors. The connectors work with the debug cables provided by forum member cakalapati. Jacmay describes wanting to avoid cutting any holes in the case of his [...]