What you can do with Vera

XBMC Media Player and Vera Control

Precondition: install XBMC Media Player from http://xbmc.org/download/

Download the zip from github https://github.com/gderosa/xbmc-vera
On xbmc go to settings - add ons - install from zip.

After that go to Add-ons -->Enabled Add-ons --> Program Add-ons --> Vera Home Automation --> Configure and type in the Vera's ip

Now you should be able to access Vera unit using the XBMC Media Player