| The concept of digital home has become increasingly popular in electronics fileds recent years. The emerging industry and consumer appliance industry guided by digital home has become the strategic focus in the companies which are represedted by Household appliances. The digital home refers to a variety of home appliances based on computer technology and network technology, achieve "interoperability" through exchanging data between the household electrical appliances whith a varity of methods. This allows people's home life become more convenient and efficient for accessing to "information" and the comfort of human habitation and entertaining would be improved greatly.A home media center, which can be used as a hub, the controller of other home electrical equipment, the interface of home life, is a stable and easy digital home solution. Currently we have desined a kind of downloading server which can be used as home gateways, TV player and other digital equipment's controller (D-Box). In order to achieve remote control for the digital home devices, it only needed to ahceive a valid controller for D-Box. At the same time, we can access a number of digital media services, such as digital health, digital education base on D-Box. Therefore, either for the user or the services provider, it is crucial to get a good method to configure and operate the D-Box.This paper designs and implements a kind of D-Box control and management system. With this system, user can control the D-Box regardless wether it is in LAN or WAN. Meanwhile, this article also designed a D-Box-based operations management system. At last, the paper summarized and discussed the problems that still exist, and then points out the direction of refinements for the Home Media Centers. It also gives the prospect of next work. |
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