> as an aside, I use synching a lot! I can see how the ability to synch is useful for some. I think I've never had much of a need because my wife is stuck in the 70's, the 4 kids like teen pop, and I'm more of a nick cave, tom waits kind of guy. I'm hoping as the kids age, we'll be able to entertain more or have some common musical interests. If so, I'd be all for synching, but think it would be greatly simplified if done in hardware.
> In a house 2.0 the audio system is not just a multiroom system, it's > also perfect linked with the logic of the smart house. I agree, but have never seen anything at a reasonable cost that provides those functions in a usable way. I have voice announcements through homeseer's squeezebox plugin, but it doesn't work perfectly and can be annoying. Since I work from home, it was very handy when the youngest was sleeping and I could have a voice message tell me when he was up from his nap based on a door sensor. In that case it was door sensor - to rf module - to ha software - to squeezebox plugin - to squeezebox server - to player - to speakers. Too much involved, too complicated, too much stuff to go wrong. I see announcements as an on-board source that is routed as needed by something that has a single purpose - sound in my home. Something like the "I am very inexpensive." block in the attached diagram is what I want to build. Maybe the interface to squeezebox server will allow me to do what I want, but I'm new to JSON/RPC and can't find enough info or examples on how to begin hacking at code. I've done a fair amount of .net and microcontroller programming, but the learning curve looks pretty steep from where I'm at. I guess I might get somewhere if I stopped making block diagrams and started working on it. The system you linked to looks nice, but expensive. 15081 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: diagram.pdf | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15081| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ mweb's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=34242 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98467 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
