What do commercial appliance solutions similar to LinuxMCE cost?
Appliance solutions are normally quite expensive. The most popular combinations are: • Crestron system to do all the home automation. The cost varies depending on what you want to do with it, but a whole-house solution including touch-screen panels will set you back at least $25,000 for an entry-level system, and can easily hit 6 figures. • Kaleidescape for the DVD movie server, costing $27,000 for the main server, and $4,000 for each TV where you want to watch movies. • Escient Fireball for the music server, costing $5,000 for the central music server. • A PBX phone system with voicemail, like Panasonic will cost another 5 grand or so. All of those products require professional installation and setup, particularly the home automation devices. LinuxMCE was designed with simple web-based wizard so even non-techies can get a whole solution up within a few hours. But our competitors’ products are different. Smart home dealers will require a trained programmer to set them up. For example,
