JamesBrickley

eightzero said:

This is interesting:
www.silicondust.com/hdhomerun/

> The HD Home Run is a networked tuner for cable tv or over the air digital tv.  The Channels apps does work with it.  Yes, it is kinda expensive.  The only thing this buys me is to keep the AppleTV running for LiveTV so I don't have to switch TV input sources to watch LiveTV.  

friedmud said:

BTW: Homebridge works well at connecting Nest with Homekit: https://github.com/nfarina/homebridge

Oh that's just SPLENDID! Homebridge runs in Node.js and my private cloud / NAS can easily spin up a tiny Node VM so I can install homebridge on it.  Schweet, I will try this over the weekend.  

The private cloud box is https://smartos.org by the way, it's running on a Supermicro A1SRi-2758-F Mini-ITX motherboard with Atom Rangley 2758 (8 core high end Atom - 3600 PassMark CPU)  32GB ECC RAM - LSI 9211-8i SAS controller - Combined with Norco ITX-S8 Mini-ITX NAS 8-bay case and a 1U power supply.  SmartOS is a fork of OpenSolaris 10 and as such includes Zones, ZFS, Dtrace, etc.  SmartOS can run native Linux virtual machines at bare metal speed. I currently run Plex on it in a Ubuntu VM and have another native zone acting as a TimeMachine backup for all the Mac's.  8 4TB drives gives me about 24TB's of usable space.  One doesn't need the 8-bay Norco they do make a 4-bay Norco ITX-S4 model and you could use an LSI 9211-4i SAS controller.  You could go with one of the newer Mini-ITX Xeon D SoC Supermicro boards which is many times more powerful but is far from cheap $899+ w/CPU.