RE: Re: Rio Receiver in the UK

["Graham Howe" <graham@xxxxxxx>]

It does have HPNA built in already. Running wires through dark and small
places is par for the course in home automation, just visit almost any of
our houses to find out ;-)

Graham

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Malcolm-Smith [mailto:rich@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 09 October 2001 11:41
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Rio Receiver in the UK
>
>
> Graham Howe wrote:
>
> > Yes you can do it this way, but it seems a little clumsy to
> me, anything
> > that involves adding another (powered) box is in my view
> moving away from
> > true wireless. Also I believe that these boxes are quite
> pricey, probably
> > even more expensive than the receiver! Surely anyone can
> tolerate a single
> > wire from the receiver to the server, after all people are
> used to having a
> > wire to a television, a radio, a telephone etc etc. If you
> can go wired here
> > then that has to be the best way. Wireless is great for
> true wireless
> > devices, in other words running on batteries.
>
> The only wires to my TV, and radio in my room are the power ones, and
> the phones only got a wire when its on the charger(only use a
> cellphone
> here)
>
> If I want a Rio or audiotron in the bedroom it either needs to be
> wireless, or else I have to run a cat 5 up there thru several places
> that are dark and small, hardly fun at all
>
> I would rather see a USB port on the device so that either a homepna,
> wireless, or powerline adaptor can be hung off it. And, as
> another bonus
> could hook a palm etc to it and hotsync while nowhere near the PC. USB
> cant be much to impliment on something like this since I can get a PCI
> card with USB ports on it for near nothing.
>
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