RE: NEW ukha project

["Kenneth Watt" <kennwatt@xxxxxxx>]

Don't want much Andy do you? ;-)

K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Bovingdon [mailto:bov@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 11 February 2002 14:14
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] NEW ukha project
>
>
> The SlimDevices unit looks quite neat - been chatting with them about
> it. I would like to see something along those lines, but with a few HA
> additions, such as:
>
> a) Act as a pre-amp for audio with stereo out for connection to a
power
>     amp, or more accurately - powered in-wall speakers. A digital out
>     would also be good. This is kind of what they do now. Eventually
an
>     advanced unit handling multimedia would be good. A/V with 5.1 or
7.1
>     sound streamed from the central PC - but lets start simple :-)
> b) The ability to act as an IR receiver and possibly an emitter also -
>     Grab IR and send it to the PC to route to the sources or to
trigger
>     macros etc.
> c) It should be possible to override the audio to make announcements
>     or to mute when the phone goes.
> d) Built in microphone to permit voice control from the room, possibly
>     with some sort of noise cancellation capability to distinguish
>from
>     any audio it is delivering.
> e) Built in motion sensor, light level sensor and thermometer.
> f) Either connect via Cat5 or my preference would be 802.11b - via a
PC
>     Card to allow for upgrade or Bluetooth options.
> g) In wall or stand alone options
> h) I would like to see some better integration between HA stuff and
>     DECT phone systems, especially the ISDN based ones which allow
>     multiple lines etc - great if the unit could display the phone
>     numbers and names of callers or to announce them before I walk
>     all the way to the nearest handset.
> i) The PC should have the ability to display any arbitrary piece of
>     text on the device - from time to temperature and so on.
>
> The unit should act on it's own communicating with other units and
> the core system running back on a PC somewhere. It would be nice if
> the display colour could be changed - like car head units, to match
> the interior decor.
>
> I had thought about using older PocketPC's with WLAN cards to do some
> of what I wanted - the old mono iPaqs perhaps - small and quite
capable
> of decoding MP3 or WMA streams - not to mention video.
>
> Now if you could make it fit into a light switch (double size
naturally),
> taking power from the socket, communicating via 802.11 to the PC while
> controlling the lights for the switch it has replaced - easy home
> automation that is faster than X10 and avoids additional twitter on
the
> power line.
>
> Ok - I'm getting carried away here - time to stop :-)
>
> At 01:00 PM 11-02-02 +0000, you wrote:
> >Hi All,
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Stuart
> >
> >
> >
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