From: Jason S. <ja...@sh...> - 2004-01-21 01:25:43
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I have this and my wife and I listen to mh tts/ogg/mp3/shoutcast streams regularily via this arrangement and dont have any complaints. I spent a couple of hours soldering the master station switches to a bunch of relays and control room audio this way. Not sure if there are any rs232 compatibile solutions out there though, but relays do me fine. A nice benefit is that I can listen into rooms as well (was experimenting with viavoice VR) If I were to do this again, I would just get VoIP phones that can be "paged" and control audio via this route. You can always tap the audio out of the handset for speakers as well. $2000 can buy you a lot of nice VoIP equipment. On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Russ W. Knize wrote: > Does anyone have any experience interfacing a PC with normal "analog" > intercomm systems? Not so much for playing music, but more for > announcements, etc. > > Shane Harrison said: > > My opinion is that wireless devices do have their place but are not the > > "magic" answer. > > 1) You still need to get power to them and run speaker wires to them and > > in the case of a standalone MP3 player, add connections to an amplifier. > > > > 2) They are not discrete - my wife dislikes even visible speakers. > > Having all this extra kit visible is a huge turnoff. > > 3) As Kirk says, getting other sources to them requires compressing the > > source and streaming it. Radio is an obvious additional source and > > hence you incur additional cost to get this to the required room. > > 4) Also call me skeptical but I do worry about bandwidth issues and > > spectrum interference issues with current generation of WiFi. > > > > I think they are ideal where it is difficult to run wires from a central > > location or where portability is required. > > > > My thoughts anyway. > > > > Shane > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: mis...@li... > >> [mailto:mis...@li...] On > >> Behalf Of Max > >> Sent: Wednesday, 21 January 2004 7:02 a.m. > >> To: mis...@li... > >> Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] Re: Whole house audio > >> > >> > >> So no one likes the slimdevices? I mean they do have an open > >> source server... I'm not a programmer but I'm sure that hooks > >> for MH could be inserted. Plus with the ability to have > >> multiple player synchronized, I would think that it could > >> even be tied into the Occupancy Monitoring as well. It would > >> be nice to be leave an audio wake the same way you can leave > >> a light wake through your house. Plus the players seem to be > >> cheaper than the other solutions I've seen discussed here > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Carl Bromberg" <bro...@pa...> > >> To: <mis...@li...> > >> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 10:29 AM > >> Subject: [misterhouse-users] Re: Whole house audio > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > > ________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: > > http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > > > > > Thanks, > Russ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > > |