RE: Re: Whole House Audio Touchscreen Setup on a Budget

["Gary Tall" <gtcs@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whilst we were building the barn one of my most have's was Sonos. In
the
event though and despite lots of helpful advice from Mr Hawkins I
decided to go the Squeezebox route teamed up with a Windows Home Server
box and a Pronto TSU9600 running Barry Gordon's excellent SlimServer
pronto scripts controlling the Squeezeboxes .

Despite one teething problem with WHS which caused problems for a couple
of days its been superb and the wife loves it. To be honest one of the
things that put me off was the Sonos controller, it looks dated to my
eyes and by using the Pronto I've got a single controller doing
everything from lights to AV.

Of course getting three Squeezeboxes for 100 quid each helped as well!

Cheers
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of noel_pilot
Sent: 04 January 2008 18:06
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Whole House Audio Touchscreen Setup on a Budget

Fully agree, if there's others involved then Sonos is easier however
it's also a bucket load of money!
For many rooms it is a LOT of money, personally I think it's worth it
but for many it is out of budget.
SWMBO approval factor of my approach i think is pretty good, its very
easy to operate on the ipod touch, not quite as quick as a sonos but
pretty good
any specific questions let me know!
cheers

--- In ukha_d@yahoogroups. <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
com, Sean
<thunderchilduk@...> wrote:
>
> Hmmm tbh I know that when I looked at getting airport/mac swmbo
> approval was very low.
>
> The Sonos does what it says on the tin with no tweaking or fiddling,
> it just works (sounds like another product I know).
>
> I can't think of anything that sonos can do, that a home computer
> setup with custom made scripts couldn't replicate.
>
> But I know know what one my wife would choose ;)
>
> Sean
>
> On Jan 2, 2008 12:43 PM, Ho Yin Ng <architect.hoyin@...> wrote:
> > Thanks Mark
> >
> > It looks good and coupled with EyeTV I might go for this over
Sonos.
> >
> > Different zones don't bother me as my place is too small.
> >
> > Can anyone think of something that the Sonos would offer me that
this setup
> > would not?
> >
> > Ho Yin
> >
> > On 01/01/2008, Mark McCall <lists@...> wrote:
> > >
> > > Submission by Noel Andrews - I love the idea of Sonos but
for
me the
> > > price
> > > is prohibitive. Being almost entirely a Mac household I've
used
an airport
> > > express for a few months now and with the release of the
Ipod
touch and
> > > the
> > > discovery of Remote Buddy seeds of a solution were planted.
Read
on to
> > > find
> > > out how I put these items together to create my own budget
priced whole
> > > house audio solution...
> > >
> > > http://tinyurl.
<http://tinyurl.com/2y7bpf>
com/2y7bpf
> > >
> > > M.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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> --
> Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to
> build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying
> to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
>
> - Unknown
>



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