Re: Radio Broadcast for Home Automation?

["Peter" <peter.zuesli@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think that "Barix Exstreamer Wireless" would do the trick. But I would
need one in each room and this could be very expensive. Do you know a
"cheaper" way to do it?



"none" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1140719961_2041@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> There are a lot of ways to do this, depending on what exactly you want to
> do.
>
> The easiest way I can think of would be as easy as a relay board with your
> sound card as the input and a relay selects the room for output (this is
> simple and has a lot of limitations). Or perhaps a multichannel sound
card,
> but this would depend on your automation software and require an amp for
> every channel (NCH Swift Sound makes a neat software package, Business
Music
> System, that is capable of handling multizone music and announcements, and
> can be controlled from other software:
> http://www.nch.com.au/bms/index.html ).
>
> Next step up would be a matrix switch with multichannel output with as few
> as two channels input, if for example you wanted announcement and music.
>
> Multichannel / multizone audio distribution can get expensive pretty fast.
>
> A professional multizone intercom device like this would work too:
> http://www.barix.com/products/annuncicom_ip_network_intercom.html
> (pretty cool, but also not cheap)
>
> Most of the wireless music streamers I have seen are set up for control at
> the client device, not the server. So you couldn't necessarily interrupt
the
> music to play an announcement (they are more like for streaming audio
files,
> than encoding and streaming live audio). There are live music streamers,
but
> these are more in the professional range and, again, multichannel gets
> pretty expensive.
>
>
> "Peter" <peter.zuesli@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:dtkml9$ruf$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > My home automation can speak status messages over the PC speakers. Now I
> > want to send this messages to all rooms in our house.
> >
> > Radio broadcasting seems not to be the best solution, because I would
like
> > to decide which message should be sent to which room.
> >
> > I am thinking about WLAN and audio streaming, but I am not shure if this
> > accomplishes what I need.
> >
> > Does anybody have experiences with my kind of problem?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Peter
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
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