Routing audio from mics to HA land (and HV outputs)

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>]

More questions (HA day here today!). Not sure Sunday is the best day to
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t =96 most of you seem to have a life at the weekends ;)

I=92ve got a number of open air microphones (Crown PZM-11) installed
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the house =96 originally for voice control (but as the software is still p=
ants =96 that will have to wait a while). I=92m finally getting round to
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inking about using them for security monitoring and want to be able to
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en in to whichever mic I want via the web and telephone. I have a Shure
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elligent mic mixer which will automatically select a mic depending on
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level and also has a control interface to be able to manually select a mic=
by shorting one of 8 signals to ground. So I have a number of mixed h/w
& =
s/w questions:

1.	WHAT HV PORTS? The mixer=92s interface allows muting, gating and
overrid=
e selection of sources via a DB25 connector. For now I just want to use
the=
override select features to manually select one or more mics. A source is =
selected simply by shorting the relevant pin to the unit=92s =91Logic
Groun=
d=92 (possibly different to the audio ground???). I don=92t want to use
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ays etc =96 can I do this just with one of HV=92s outputs? (obviously up
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8 outputs to control each of the 8 mics). I=92m not sure this is OK and wh=
ich port to use (port A?). Once wired up, selecting the outputs via
schedul=
e is easy :-)
2.	The line out from the mixer is simply routed into one of two soundcards
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in my server (one is used for voice announcements and the other for MP3
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ver). One card (MP3 server) is a SB Audigy 2 and the other an older SB
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l of some kind. Is there a decent piece of software out there that can be
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ontrolled by HV and/or ACE (maybe just command line driven etc) that can
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lect record input, mute sources and set volume levels so I can then route
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he audio to
a.	my whole house audio system
b.	streamed to a web page via whatever streaming app I want
c.	somehow routed to a telephone for live listening (maybe via HomeSeer
Pho=
ne OR Asterisk etc
3.	in 2c above =96 how easy is it to route live audio onto the phone line
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ia something like Asterisk?

I think that=92s it for now. Any thoughts most appreciated as usual :-)

Paul.