Re: Flight of fantasy

[Martin Howell <grizelli.associates@xxxxxxx>]

Paul,

Yes, I would be interested - I have been playing with something similar for
a
while now, and would like to plan it into our new house.  Maybe we could
both
avoid re-inventing the _whole_ wheel?!

Martin

Paul Gordon wrote:

> Chaps,
>
> I was sitting around a bit bored today (working from home), and I
started to
> think about designing a new HA system from the ground up. (nothing
trivial
> then!)
>
> Because I like PC's, and I already have loads of them, and I can
sometimes
> get more for free, or sometimes get spare parts for free, I decided
that I
> would make it a PC based system (no surprise there).
>
> Having established that much, I started to think about what I might be
able
> to do with a PC-based system. (Note I say "PC based" not
WINTEL based, as it
> is not specifically windows based, and could just as easily be on
Linux...)
>
> I listed some features that I thought were important, and sketched out
some
> fag-packet type drawings (I don't smoke though!). After a While, I
finally
> came out with a design for a distributed, multi-master,
message-passing
> system, with built-in redundancy, and which provides whole house
multi-zone
> X10, IR, VR, TTS, and MP3 audio over 1 SINGLE CAT5 cable between
zones!
>
> Now, it seems to me like it should work as I think it does, (but of
course
> you may know better!), and it is nothing more than a flight of my
fantasy at
> the moment, but I'd sure be interested to know what any other seasoned
> HA'ers make of my ideas...
>
> Trouble is, it is only in existance as a Word 2000 document at the
moment,
> as it contains a Visio 2000 diagram (ASCII graphics just weren't going
to
> cut it, and if I'd tried i'd be here 'Till Friday!), so I didn't want
to
> post it to the list and Piss people off. If anyones' interested
enough, drop
> me a mail privately, and I'll send it to anyone who fancies a look...
>
> Cheers.
>
> Paul G.
>
> (PS, I should mention that not _all_ of the software required for this
> design exists yet,  some "glue" code would need to be custom
developed to
> fit all the components together..)
>
>
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