I won't ask about the age of your parents. But it looks that their setup is reliable. I suggest a reliable server, this means either the Touch (fingers crossed !) or something like a SheevaPlug. Low power, single purpose, always-on, that will give them excellent quality of service and no second thoughts about "wasting" electricity.
Unless you can hijack the audio switch, or you can add remote-controlled on/off switches in the rooms, and have all this controlled by a plugin, I would suggest the Boom. (I hear the Radio sounds great, and it can operate on batteries, but I fear its small screen.) I love my Boom, and my parents love their, more than the SB Classic they have also. The Boom can add *great sound* to any room where there is no audio yet. And better, it will sync with the main system. (For the Boom, I recommend considering using PeterW's 'contextmenu' and 'saverswitcher' plugins. Out of the box, this combination allows to use the big knob to control volume after briefly pressing it. Press again and you go back to menu navigation mode. I think this is known as "grandma mode", here and there.) -- epoch1970 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16711 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=70890 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
