On Monday 07 March 2011 17:39:52 Sandeep Pillai wrote: > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 4:30 PM, jtd <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is easy. touchpads selection but 7.1 playback thru another > > amp is tricky - done in my home automation system. > > Do you have a detailed write up on how you went about this (home > automation)
Yes. Otherwise the customer would not pay me. Of course they are interested in the end result, and dont even want to know all the nice tehcnical stuff You hav an embeded board with several peripherls connected. Periherals are 1) An 8 channel pwm genaerator for dimming LED lamps 2) Phase angle controller (a standard fan controller mangled with a digital interface) for fan speed 3) Temprature measurement ic and AC controller to regulate the ac speed 4) forward / reverse ac motor control ( for the curtains and projection screen 5) HDMI swirch to switch o/p to LCD TV or projector 6) Media player 7) 7.1 Ch 40W RMS per ch power amp (present set up uses 5.1 only) with 170W RMS 12" basebin 8) 1x 2 way center, 4 x 2 way surround (700hz to 20Khz) 9) 7" 800 x 400 touchpad 10) wifi 11) Touch screen remote controller 12) Water proof speakers in the bathroom The above replicated in each room. 13) Media server 1TB and master automation controller 14) SMS controller Press the relevant icons on the tablet or remote and control your lights, ac etc. Select music from the tablet or remote and it will play on the music system, including 1080P hdtv, streamed from the media server or proxied from wherver. Use your smartphone to do the same. Pop in your cd, usb, sdcard and all the stuff in /music and /video gets copied to server disk. BIG FAT WARNING dont stuff your pron in these folders, or else everyone else will at home will know. Everything runs on the browser so I dont care what you use as control. Software apache, mootools, vlc. Comin up version 2 plasma ion center speaker and electrostatic surround 25.4 mm thick (could be thinner). Wireless control -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
