Contest: Gear Diary is giving away a Neuros OSD!
Posted on 03 November 2008, at 3:27 pm, by Joel McLaughlin
This contest is now closed, and a winner will be announced shortly. Thank you for participating!
As a fan and advocate of open source software, I’ve got a lot of love for companies like Neuros. Now I have another reason to love them: Neuros is sponsoring an OSD give-away on Gear Diary!
To win, all you have to do is post an idea of something you would like the Neuros OSD (or the as yet unreleased OSD2) to do out of the box that it can’t do already. For example, my wish would be that it include a web browser. You can’t steal my idea, so come up with one of your own!
The contest starts right now, and it will end on Sunday the 9th at midnight; a winner will be selected shortly after. The winner will be selected at random from all entries, and they will be notified via e-mail by Judie (so add judie@geardiary.com to your “safe” list, ASAP). Since Neuros is shipping directly to the winner, this contest will be open to participants in the United States only.
So let’s get those brains going, and be sure to go over to the Neuros Technology website to check out all the cool stuff that the Neuros can already do!
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November 3rd, 2008 at 3:44 pm
My wish is that the OSD could reliably record movies/shows over 2 hours long. Apparently this is a problem as mentioned in Neuros’ forums.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
They can get around this by using something other than FAT32. It’s a 2 GB File Limitation. It will divide it into multiple files. So you will miss some of the show. I agree….it’s a problem. Fortunately, for me, over 2 hours isn’t something I normally do.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:59 pm
I did not see if the Neuros had a built in webserver but that would be great. To be able to stream the movies over this server like MythWeb does. As for home movies, having the ability to easily upload to youtube would be beneficial. Support for file systems other than fat32 to avoid the 2gb limitation. As a Linux user I would like to see more documentation on their site about using the device in Linux. Right now I see a lot of Windows and OS X docs. Transcoding into other formats would be nice too instead of just mp4. This may tax the device though. Fuser support, particularly sshfs.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:04 pm
Timed recording controlled through a web interface would be grand. Ogg Theora and drac support.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
[Joel obviously never records football games]
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:19 pm
Have the NeurosOSD as an officially supported MythTV thin client. If that’s not doable have MVPMC ported over thus giving it MythTV thin client functionality. Having a schedules direct support would be great so that you could search a programming guide to set timed recordings in a similar fashion as Tivo.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:58 pm
I wish it could turn into a robot that would remind me when my favorite shows are on.
Plus, if the robot could do my laundry, that would be good to.
November 4th, 2008 at 1:19 am
I would like to see Bluetooth technology support so that you can instantly transfer pictures and video you took during the day from your phone.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:05 am
If you’re going to add a browser, how about something to download (on a schedule) video podcasts, maybe even audio podcasts?
I like the idea of wireless connections too. It would be great to send or receive without having to connect a mobile device directly to it.
November 4th, 2008 at 10:53 am
I think it would be nice if it had a large hard drive built in as kind of a getting started package. That might help get around the aforementioned 2 hour problem.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
The 2h limit should no longer exist for users who are up to date with the firmware.
Timed recording through a web interface should be available soon in a new beta firmware we are working on. We have other goodies we will share with you before thanksgiving.
Good luck to you all.
FJ
Neuros
November 9th, 2008 at 1:12 am
Video podcasts would be great!
November 9th, 2008 at 10:19 am
Thanks FJ!
I think your right, but I am working on getting networking re-setup on my Neuros. Maybe I’ll get it going later tonight. I am trying to setup a WRT54G with Tomato on my TV Stand where the Neuros is and it can get out but I can not telnet or SSH into the Neuros. I am betting I need to do something with WDS on the router to get it working.