I built a custom floating media console to hold all of my AV and gaming components in our family room.

I installed reclaimed Saltillo tile in front of my theater. The tile needed to have old mortar ground off and then was soaked, installed, grouted, and sealed. Saltillo presents its own unique challenges!

This post is all about a temporary equipment rack even though the next major task in my Phoenix theater build log is, believe it or

I finished my theater door by building the second half of the threshold and constructing a soundproofing door stop

In this Phoenix Theater build log, I pull the Harmony’s IR cable into the theater via the projector’s conduit and using the installed pull cord.

A review of the Logitech Harmony Companion Remote and Smart Hub as a first step in automating my home theater, controlling not only my older IR projector but also a Kodi powered HTPC

Our old pool filter backwash system required multiple tools, decent strength, and was messy. The new system using a PVC pipe is trivial to use and doesn’t require getting messy or wet… but it also completely failed the first time we turned it on! Most of the time on this project was scrambling to fix my failures and bring this to a workable state.

The Emby server does a much better job of movie management than Kodi but handily integrates well with it. OpenELEC makes it difficult to run 3rd party software such as Emby, though. In this post, I show how to insert Emby into the OpenELEC disk image to run alongside Kodi on the same HTPC