Hi, I'm the friend of Max's who'll be building the PSU for his new amp. I thought I'd post my thoughts so far, having read through the options.
Ideally, of course, the amp power should cycle with the squeezebox power, instantly and transparently - just as if the squeezebox contained a power amp of its own. Solutions involving another remote, or even an unused button on the SB remote, just don't satisfy my sense of neatness I'm afraid. ;-) The X10 route, though neat, is expensive; it's also overkill for such a simple application IMHO. In the absence of a geekport, I think I'll end up going down the IR blaster route, with different codes for switch on and switch off - I don't mind doing a bit of decoding, for example on a cheap PIC (the 6-pin 10F200 is 55 pence here in the UK). Can anyone tell me more about the IR blaster? How easy is it to send custom codes at custom baudrates? And how much of its functionality is in firmware? For example, it would be useful to disable the 38KHz carrier, since I'll probably just hardwire the IR blaster output into the PSU. Is this possible? For anyone who's interested, I'll be using an optoisolator and a triac to switch the mains supply to the PSU (it's a cheap, small and silent solution). The same trick would work for any mains-powered device, so I'll try to make the schematics available once it's built. Thanks in advance for your help. Andy -- cooperised ------------------------------------------------------------------------ cooperised's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2237 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=17974 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
