I’ve also been dabbling with Voice Assistants and Home Automation and even created an Alexa Skill<\/a>.\u00a0 Can’t say I’m super impressed with the current state of voice technology, but at least my wife and kids can manage the TV\/Receiver\/NVidia config by asking Alexa to turn on the TV.<\/p>\n Aside from the blog, I was a guest editor on missingremote.com where I posted a couple Home Theater and Windows Media Center experiences. A list of my postings:<\/p>\n Note, I’m not a Windows (or Andriod or Mac) bigot, and in fact 95% of my software development experience is on Linux and Unix, but when evaluating WMC vs the Linux offerings (MythTV, etc…), the DRM issues (specifically CableCARD)<\/a> made WMC the obvious choice.\u00a0 Microsoft eventually killed that product, but I’m still back-hauling cable from my second home using Plex and an old Hauppauge WinTV DCR-2650.<\/a> Rebuilt all my HTPCs during Covid lockdown and actually found a mini-ATX motherboard that would take the old Core i7-3770K that I was running Windows 7 & WMC on on.\u00a0 \u00a0It’s now a happy remote Plex server in Santa Cruz.<\/p>\n I ride a BMW K1300GT motorcycle, attended 5 days of California SuperBike school<\/a> and (sometimes) change my own oil on all my vehicles.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve been a Miami Dolphins<\/a> fan since I was a little kid (no connection to Florida, so I can’t really explain why) but loyalty has kept me with the team through thick and thin.\u00a0\u00a0 Living in California, I take full advantage of the ski & wine country, and built a wine cellar under my stairwell to help leverage that.<\/p>\n I spend far too much time trying to build and design Nitrate reduction mechanisms for a 60 gallon Cichlid fishtank.\u00a0 With more free time, I’d be playing beach volleyball.\u00a0\u00a0 The rest I do have gets wasted on Science Fiction.\u00a0\u00a0 Lately Peter Hamilton<\/a>, Iain Banks<\/a> and Neal Asher<\/a>.<\/p>\n I can be reached at<\/p>\n Professional Info I was basically a Unix graphics developer who taught himself Security, Java, and various Web technologies, only to get sucked into management positions after spending any amount of time at a company, but I still like to keep my hands pretty dirty.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve built and led development teams at multiple start-ups ranging from… Continue reading About Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpsharp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Home Theater\/PC Convergence<\/h2>\n
\n
Personal Info<\/h2>\n
![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.mpsharp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/email.png\" "\\"email\\"")
<\/a>![\"\"](\"file:\/\/\/G:\/Temp\/Mike\/moz-screenshot.png\")
<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"