shenandoah75
Active Member
I was reading past posts where some of the simpler niles/zantech stuff was recommended, but i have volume controls with IR and status. So three wire is no good - i need(want) 4 with the status. I also plan on housing all my equipment in one spot. I would have three zones, but i am not sure i really need/want multi-zone in the IR. I will eventually use a Denon A/V with multi-room capability for audio source selection - so on the audio side, i say clearly not. That leaves video - short term, this will still be locally located, not in the central closet.... Long term, i will likely want to use CQC/mainlobby for all control via serial, but figured i'd put the IR in now until then (and just in case).
1) So the only thing that might desire multi-zone would be the cable STBs... If brighthouse gives me two of the same model and i'm want to watch two different shows in two rooms, guess i would want it. Don't plan on having same brand DVD players/changes.... But i could also buy a second ir hub for this purpose if need ?. Could i branch a single keypad into two hubs for this purpose (i.e. send ir signal and ground to two seperate hubs - or would that degrade the IR signal too much to be amplified by the hubs)? Since video is down the road (as would cqc/mainlobby control) i don't want to pay a ton of money for the niles multi-zone if i won't need it...
2) I'm verifying power requirements on my volume controls with the MFG, but assuming i can get all 9 of them and the emitters under the current rating of a power supply, am i going to have any problems wiring all 9 to the single port in parallel on say Zantech's 791-44 (1 zone / 10 emitters)? the manual shows it that way, but do i need to worry about interferance on the signal wire or diagnosis or anything if i ever need to trouble shoot? I don't think so but just checking...
anyway, leaning towards this unit as its pretty cheap
thx in advance
-brad
1) So the only thing that might desire multi-zone would be the cable STBs... If brighthouse gives me two of the same model and i'm want to watch two different shows in two rooms, guess i would want it. Don't plan on having same brand DVD players/changes.... But i could also buy a second ir hub for this purpose if need ?. Could i branch a single keypad into two hubs for this purpose (i.e. send ir signal and ground to two seperate hubs - or would that degrade the IR signal too much to be amplified by the hubs)? Since video is down the road (as would cqc/mainlobby control) i don't want to pay a ton of money for the niles multi-zone if i won't need it...
2) I'm verifying power requirements on my volume controls with the MFG, but assuming i can get all 9 of them and the emitters under the current rating of a power supply, am i going to have any problems wiring all 9 to the single port in parallel on say Zantech's 791-44 (1 zone / 10 emitters)? the manual shows it that way, but do i need to worry about interferance on the signal wire or diagnosis or anything if i ever need to trouble shoot? I don't think so but just checking...
anyway, leaning towards this unit as its pretty cheap
thx in advance
-brad