First off, I've been playing with Windows Home Server lately, and I have to say I like it. It's based on Windows Server 2003, and gives you some pretty nice functionality packaged in a friendly interface. First off was taking my two 250GB drives and turning them into a single 500GB logical drive for storage. Second is setting up some default shares: Music, Pictures, Video, Public. And finally the backup solution is pretty slick. So now I have all of the PC's in my house backing up and all of my music and videos centralized. If I run out of space on the 500GB logical drive, I can just plop another drive in and 'add' it to my storage capacity.
However, this box used to serve as a media center PC, and has a Hauppauge HVR1600 tuner card in it. I hated to lose that functionality. So, I decided to install the drivers and see what I could do. I was hoping to be able to use this to schedule some recordings that I could watch from the other PCs in the house.
I've never been impressed with Hauppauge's WinTV interface, so I started looking for something better. What I came across was a really slick package: SageTV. SageTV offers a version that's compatible with Windows Home Server and turns the home server into a streaming server.
Install the SageTV client on your laptop and you can stream live or recorded TV from the Windows Home Server to your laptop.
I'm still running the trial of SageTV, so we'll see how it goes. Not sure I'm ready to fork out the $75 for the registered version just yet. But so far I'm liking this setup.
Next step.....Install Apache/PHP/Wordpress and setup a custom PhotoBlog for my wife's photography work.
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