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How about the new EcoBee wifi thermostat?

its a 2n3904 same as the 2n2222          

  As promised kind of late but better late than never.

I have a central server that runs Homeseer and Jriver MC with two soundblaster 5.1 audio cards each and I'm running the Kx driver to turn the sound cards into 6 individual stereo pairs,   In JRiver MC I set up multiple zones and assigned them to the sound card outputs.   I also run 6 instances...

Sorry guys for the delay but I've been busy!   As for the question regarding the interfacing the Panasonic PIR modules to the eagle eye yes I used a small signal transistor driven into saturation to invert the output of the module to be compatible with the input of the x10 hawkeye.   The sensor...

I myself was looking for an affordable occupancy sensor that would react fast and to slight movement so I moded an eagle eye motion detector as per KWicox's instructions, and bought a few panasonic slight movement occupancy pir modules from digikey. They are tiny measuring ~ 1/2" long and 3/8"...

http://www.cocoontech.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18483&st=0

There is a thread about using beam break detectors in a door jamb to detect the direction of a person entering or leaving a room and setting its occupancy state it relies on two ir leds and two ir sensors and a microcontroller.

Try this http://forum.micasaverde.com/index.php?topic=3083.0

I got rid of the old xboxes and I now use 2 WD LiveTV Plus units for my video renderer that can play HD content they are dlna certified and show up under JRMC as players

I use it for hole house audio and as a uPnp server I controll it using a couple of ipods running plugplayer and for video using old xboxes running xbmc as uPnP renderers

Beaumeri You can accomplish the same with a 555 timer to modulate the IR leds with 38Khz. The receivers have all of the circuitry built in to amplify and demodulate the IR signal and output a logic high or low depending if the beam is broken or not here is a link to a circuit...

I personally use jRiver MC16 and it does have uPnP server built in and the price is right. For media players for the rooms I use old xbox's running XBMC For remote control I use PlugPlayer that is available for both Android and iOS on my ipod touch. It allows you to select the media servers...

You could try using jRiver MC16 on your media server and get a few multichannel soundblaster cards along with the KX drivers to create as many audio zones as you need then feed the outputs into individual amps or a multichannel amp Or you could use DLNA uPnP compatible media players and all you...

Octava has HDMI to toslink breakout boxes that separates the audio from the HDMI signal and passes the video to the tv and you can then take the toslink or the stereo RCA output and feed it into a an older receiver that is lacking HDMI inputs.