I have tried two of these:
http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=HE-280B&cpc=SCH
I plan to put 8 Zones around the house. I have also setup some code in Homeseer and use similar setup that this article describes.
I use this for control of my Zones:
http://www.flippet.org/wacommand.html
I used the source and told it to look for Zone1...2...3...etc. as a class. Then I load Winamp as described.
Next I setup events to correspond to remotes around the house.
I plan to use my parallel port to drive some relays to allow the WHOLE house Zone to function. I haven't worked out the details of that yet.
I also, have a plugin for Winamp, which will write files to the HD, which I put HTML tags into the file. The file forces a refresh of the webpage every 5 seconds, and constantly displays the current status of winamp (playing, which song, stopped, etc.). This can be seen from all my Audrey terminals around the house.
I am still trying to figure out a way to get the Playlists to load. Probably will have to write a script that will generate a list of playlists. Then when you click the link to that playlist, Homeseer will have to reload that Zone's Winamp with the correct playlist.
I was thinking all playlists would be in one directory, then Homeseer can check that dir and create a webpage based on that information. Then the issue is how does homeseer know which link you clicked? DO I have it generate virtual devices? If that's the case, then the status message of the virtual device will be the name of the playlist, and when you click it on the webpage, the status goes high for that vrtual device, which creates a new event that runs to load that playlist...??
Then this can be ubiquitous (as it is over the intranet) to Audrey terminals, in the wall terminals, touchpanels, even your cellphone's wap, if you so choose (to choose the playlist you want and have it played in the Zone you are in, or the whole house).
Any ideas?
--Dan