RE: Re: Radio sources and Russound kit?

["Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK - I have some of that already... especially the caller ID bit -
excellent!  Have you tried xAP Switchboard - it does this really well. I
have all these announcements through the paging zone of my Kustom amp, so
the CAV won't give me much more functionality there but much better control
of zones will be really welcome :)

I currently use an IR injector circuit I built with the Kustom amp - allows
HomeVision to control the Kustom amp using IR - Russounds RS232 will be
much more reliable though and allow status feedback which I can't currently
get.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> kw1816
> Sent: 02 October 2006 15:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Radio sources and Russound kit?
>
> Pretty sure there's a 30 day trial version available. The old
> version I used to use doesn't seem to like ML/MLS 3 :-(
> Once we get the extension build finished I plan to spend some time
> fully integrating the CAV - got lot's of ideas .....
>
> Comfort alarm sounds - CAV switches Zone 1 on at set colume and
> plays a dog barking, then switches on all zones to announce that the
> police have been called etc. while flashing all the house lights and
> sounding a siren
>
> The wife fancies a 'welcome home' message when the front door is
> opened, I have a feeling that will last all of a week :-)
>
> CallerID announce - looks phone number up in address book and
> announce callers name in zones 1 & 2.
>
> Kevin W.
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@...> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks Kevin,
> >
> > When I get the kit (hopefully this week :) ) I'll try to get on
> the HomeSeer Russound plugin beta and see if that's a viable
> alternative.
> >
> > Do you know if Cinemar has a trial ver of the plugin - or is the
> old one still available?
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Paul.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of
> > > kw1816
> > > Sent: 02 October 2006 10:29
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Radio sources and Russound kit?
> > >
> > > Any text you like - IIRC The plugin has choice of messaging
> commands
> > >
> > > Messages to individual (or all) keypads.
> > > Messages to keypads with a specified source selected.
> > >
> > > I'm using the latter, for radio station HS fires a message
to all
> > > keypads with 'Source 2' selected and for Track/Artist
> MLmediacentre
> > > plugin fires a source message to all keypads with source 1
> selected,
> > > updated on track change. I also use the plugin to control
> > > the 'Source' key from the keypad - instead of cycling
through
> all 6
> > > I have it just looping through the (at present) 3 sources.
Each
> push
> > > also fires a brief message displaying source name
> (Radio,Music,TV)
> > > and then the source info (e.g. Radio station name).
> > >
> > > I also played with sending Caller ID info to the keypads but
then
> > > upgraded both HS and ML and haven't had the time to get it
> working
> > > again !
> > >
> > > Not using the Russound Power tools software, thought about
it -
> then
> > > saw the price tag :-0
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Kevin W.
> > >
> > >
> > > --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Paul Gale" <groups@>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Thanks Kevin!
> > > >
> > > > I wasn't sure how the station name got poked into the
CAV -
> that
> > > answers it. Did the ML Russound plugin work with respect to
> > > a 'custom' text string - is it this that the station name
goes
> into?
> > > What if you wanted to display other data on the keypad
screen -
> > > could you do this and then at some interval, revert back to
the
> > > station name? I guess you hold the station name in a HS
virtual
> > > device and keep passing it back to the CAV as and when????
> > > >
> > > > Cheers,
> > > >
> > > > Paul.
> > > >
> > >
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