RE: NEW ukha project

["James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>]

> With the current talk about DDAR, I wondered if at any time the group,
> had given any consideration to the production of a ukha MP3 Player,
> along similar lines to the DDAR, and now Slimdevices products.
>
> Perhaps with the added advantage of integrating additional control
into
> the display for HA purposes, eg Room temperature control ?
>
> As a background I've been looking at mp3elf, a tini powered solution
> which at the current time due to Dallas Semis supply problems I don't
> consider viable, there is however a large volume of data available on
> the web for MP3 Players, but as yet I've not seen an ethernet based
> player.
>
> Anyone interested ? I'm sure between the members of the group we have
> enough knowledge to implement this.

I looked into the STA-013 MP3 decoder chip as a solution - but my
electronics aren't up to it :(  This was over a year ago and I simply don't
have enough time.  The Slim Devices looks good, but the VFD it uses is what
probably pushes the cost up.  LCD is much cheaper - albeit less legible at
a
distance.  Who needs to read it across a room when you have an
iPAQ/ePODS/Fujitsu/<insert you other preferred device> to control it
from
(preferably wireless)?

Something that could be added to Keith's switcher as an audio source,
controlled via RS485/Ethernet would bring the holy grail of whole house
audio one step closer.

James H