Recent content by pkoslow

The AP800 is a great place to start. Once you add the mics you'll have a good foundation for whole-house VR with mic gating and DSP. If you're using HomeSeer, any device that can read the contact closures on the AP800 will allow HomeSeer to know which room you are speaking from which can be...

dzirkelb, There's a whole sub forum over on the Homeseer message board dedicated to this specific topic... I think you'll find lots of useful information there: http://board.homeseer.com/forumdisplay.php?f=810 I've done a lot of work using audio conferencing gear which has produced excellent...

IM, Interesting site and products... I'm meeting my electrician tomorrow to install an ACT CR234 which I've used successfully in the past for marginal X10 installations, but might have tried Jeff's product had I known about it. http://www.act-solutions.com/PCC/pdfs/PCCS.../cr234_spec.pdf...

This is good to know... I just loaded Windows 7 on my laptop and ElkRP installed fine, but I hadn't connected to a panel to test yet.

Yes, it draws an average of 246W for just the server (no UPS, Monitor, etc.). It's loaded up with 5 discs in a RAID configuration, LTO tape drive, etc. which is probably what accounts for the extra power draw. I've used the kill-a-watt meter too and over the course of 1.5yrs monitored almost...

This is good advice. 1U chassis by nature have to have lots of small fans for cooling and they are too loud for most people to tolerate in the living space of a home. If you can stash it away in a basement, the sound may not be as much of an issue? I'm currently running all my HA apps on a...

I took on the open air mic challenge for VR several years ago and pioneered the use of commercial audio conferencing equipment which made it feasable. The audio conferecing gear has DSP which is what allows for the echo cancellation and some other features that are neede to make it work well...

Charlie, Good work! The terminal strips worked out well... Cheers, Paul

I install both Russound ComPoint & OnQ Selective Call intercoms. Russound ComPoint only allows the monitoring of one room from one or more locations, but I think the OnQ system might allow you to monitor more than one room at a time (but maybe not monitor mulitple rooms from one location)...

I use Russound's ABUS often for customers and I think it's a good solution for lower budget music systems. I don't think you'll find any ABUS system with serial control because ABUS doesn't have serial control built into the protocol. The latest ABUS system from Russound has a serial port, but...

Just received notice from Russound that their iPhone solution is now shipping: http://www.russound.com/email_blasts/tch1_...uchpoint_PB.pdf

Do you need to stop the motor at a specific point too? I did a project a number of years ago where I designed a simple relay circuit that when contact closure was made, it drove a 12v motor in one direction until it hit a limit swith and stopped. When the contact closure turned off, it...

Russound has a solution on the way, but not certain when it will be available.

I think it will be very difficult to come up with a reliable way to do this on your own. As ctwilliams mentioned many of the new home theater receivers are incorporating this starting last year. Lots of the new TV's also have some settings for this if you're using the internal speakers (check...

The CAV does have composite video routing, but with today's HD sources, it's not that useful. The CAM6.6/CAV6., C-Series and even the E-Series Sphere products all the require the additional VM1 video switch to handle routing of HD (component video) sources. For digital media including MP3...