Recent content by jautor

Well that is a pleasant surprise!  I'll bet that Autonomic had to do it for their own customer base, and probably convinced NuVo that they needed to pony up some $$ to keep their customers alive, too...

  Hee hee - don't let it happen again (rats, you can't inline an image here?  I have a whole cache of otter-related memes for these occasions!)

  OWL????  OWL?????  WHO you calling an owl?   Otter, dammit!  Like my name, but spelled differently...    Jeff  (see username)  :blink:

Yeah, I just replied!  If anyone else wants it, it's just not quite finished, but if you have a NuVo Player and a PC or RaspberryPi (need a serial port to talk to the Grand Concerto or Essentia) or the NuVoNet Adapter, and are willing to put up with some bugs and occasional restarts, you're...

  If you buy a NuVo P300 (or any Player model) instead of the Sonos, have a PC or RaspberryPi and are willing to put up with some bugs while I finish up the bridge, I have a solution for metadata on the keypads...   Jeff

  You can set the line level output on the Sonos to "Fixed" so at least you only have one volume control

  The NuVoNet connection is the bus between all sources, keypads and the system and is used for control of the sources from the keypads, and in the "G" series, sending metadata to the keypad displays.  The RS232 is more general control of the system - you can do everything over RS232 except for...

Control can probably be done with iRule or another control app to issue RS232 commands via a Global Cache IP2SL  I don't recall if the E6 used the same RS232 command set (as the later Essentia and Concerto "G" series), so it may take some work.  But if you're familiar with the command set...

The newer NuVo Player line has the rack-mounted 3-zones-in-a-box P3100 and P3500, which come out a bit cheaper than the equivalent 3x Sonos Connect:Amp units.  They don't have the breadth of online services as Sonos, though.   As for the "wireless" aspect of Sonos - you don't have to do anything...

Cool.  That's a reasonable use case, and a good integration point.  Truly "using" the API for integration, not just replicating their interface...  

  Those are good examples - but doesn't their app provide that functionality already?  I know we're conditioned to want to have everything integrated - but for performing specific "sprinkler tasks" as those above, do you perceive a benefit to creating new UI pages for those functions within your...

Can you post some of those examples?  I don't see anywhere to look at any documentation except via the device itself... For those of us that haven't bought one yet.  I've been looking at the Rachio unit since RainMachine has 'only' 12 zones (I need 14, Rachio's second model has 16).    And I'm...

Commercial spaces and large venues have very different requirements and issues than small, wood-framed residential rooms... Solutions and best practices for one doesn't necessarily transfer to the other.  Mass is one component, isolation from framing is another - both are important.  But again...

  The experts would disagree with you regarding the absorption / isolation quality of drop ceilings vs. drywall.  They simply don't have the mass needed to contain low-frequency energy that is typically the problem for home theaters.    ...

  The problem with finishing the room without adequate research is that so many of the fundamental mistakes made in home theaters are easily correctable prior to the sheetrock going up.  Wiring, HVAC, speaker placements, sound isolation (soundproofing), riser sizes, seating distance, etc.    ...