IVB
Senior Member
TheaterTek is $20 off today, plus the new version has IP control. There's just a little snipped in the TheaterTek feature list about this, want to make sure folks clue in to how cool this is for those of us who want to do whole-house a/v distribution.
What this means is that CQC no longer has to "fake" user input a la Girder/etc in order to control it, but rather, will have bidirectional communication and can even be from another PC. I have 2 PCs that can playback DVDs, hence I can now set them up as true 'sources' rather than dedicating one to a zone. I'll be able to see if one is in use or not, if not the user can feel confident that they can use that DVD player. If it's in use, then they'll use the 2nd DVD player. CQC will handle the switching. I still need to figure out how I'll handle HD distro vs SD distro.
Perhaps hard to understand, imagine painting the below screen with DVD info. If you were about to play something and you saw that it was still in use, then you'd go use the next available player.
As soon as SageTV has a CQC driver, you'll be able to use CQC and eBayed hardware to create a pretty inexpensive whole-house distribution system for ALL your a/v needs. No more building an HTPC per room, just one per concurrent video source...
Cool stuff...
Changes new in 2.3.2 :
- Full two-way IP control of TheaterTek has been added. This is available on the General tab of the Configuration dialog and allows automation software to control TheaterTek. Developers interested in supporting this capability should contact support. CQC should be supporting this in their next release shortly.
What this means is that CQC no longer has to "fake" user input a la Girder/etc in order to control it, but rather, will have bidirectional communication and can even be from another PC. I have 2 PCs that can playback DVDs, hence I can now set them up as true 'sources' rather than dedicating one to a zone. I'll be able to see if one is in use or not, if not the user can feel confident that they can use that DVD player. If it's in use, then they'll use the 2nd DVD player. CQC will handle the switching. I still need to figure out how I'll handle HD distro vs SD distro.
Perhaps hard to understand, imagine painting the below screen with DVD info. If you were about to play something and you saw that it was still in use, then you'd go use the next available player.
As soon as SageTV has a CQC driver, you'll be able to use CQC and eBayed hardware to create a pretty inexpensive whole-house distribution system for ALL your a/v needs. No more building an HTPC per room, just one per concurrent video source...
Cool stuff...
