CalypsoCowboy
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I have some questions about a potential CQC setup and wanted to ask if this was feasable.
3 or so touchscreen, CAT5 and power access to each, one would be wireless.
1 Computer running CQC
The touchpanels would have a MCE like appearance with the following sections or areas (there may be other areas I'm missing)
Rooms - Show a listing of rooms, control lights, show temp, security zone status, etc.
Lighting - Show a listing of all lights and allow for control.
Climate - Show a listing of thermostat, temps, allow control.
Security - Show a listing of zone, logs, allow control
Events - Show a list of stored macros or commonly run ones, etc.
Audio - Allow select zone, source, show cds loaded in MCE if source was selected, play back to zones, party mode, control over audio
Video - Allow select zone, source, show dvds and videos loded in MCE if source was selected, play back in zones, control over video
From within MCE, there would be a section for My Home, that would load up the same interface as above allowing the same control. Maybe this is redundant if I can already control everything through the touchsreens.
From what I understand most of this should be possible the hurdles I see are.
1. To get the audio and video information I need the Autonomic server and right now CQC doesn't have an interface to it.
2. I'd like to get multiroom audio just from my MCE box but that software doesn't exist yet.
3. To get the CQC screen to show up on MCE there would need to be some sort of interface written that doesn't exist yet.
Basically I'm looking to build a roll my own Lifeware type system, or a Cortexa or HAI type system with a custom touchpanel interface.
Thanks,
Josh
3 or so touchscreen, CAT5 and power access to each, one would be wireless.
1 Computer running CQC
The touchpanels would have a MCE like appearance with the following sections or areas (there may be other areas I'm missing)
Rooms - Show a listing of rooms, control lights, show temp, security zone status, etc.
Lighting - Show a listing of all lights and allow for control.
Climate - Show a listing of thermostat, temps, allow control.
Security - Show a listing of zone, logs, allow control
Events - Show a list of stored macros or commonly run ones, etc.
Audio - Allow select zone, source, show cds loaded in MCE if source was selected, play back to zones, party mode, control over audio
Video - Allow select zone, source, show dvds and videos loded in MCE if source was selected, play back in zones, control over video
From within MCE, there would be a section for My Home, that would load up the same interface as above allowing the same control. Maybe this is redundant if I can already control everything through the touchsreens.
From what I understand most of this should be possible the hurdles I see are.
1. To get the audio and video information I need the Autonomic server and right now CQC doesn't have an interface to it.
2. I'd like to get multiroom audio just from my MCE box but that software doesn't exist yet.
3. To get the CQC screen to show up on MCE there would need to be some sort of interface written that doesn't exist yet.
Basically I'm looking to build a roll my own Lifeware type system, or a Cortexa or HAI type system with a custom touchpanel interface.
Thanks,
Josh
