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Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:09 pm
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dtich
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i'm going thru ired now, because it is so light a load on the cpu it isn't any kind of issue. i wrote a little attachment for indigo so i can do ir commands from any action with just a handler call:
RemoteControl("lexicon/mc8","mute/zone2")
real easy. works great. and my server is in the basement so using enet is essential to my setup. at the moment i have only one transceiver, in the den, everything else is more directly applescriptable, but if i need to i can add transceivers in other parts of the house. the audio/vis equip is not as yet very networkable (aside from tivo) unless you do proprietary stuff like crestron/amx via rs422, etc, and a lot of stuff won't be networkable for years it seems, like televisions (and if sony would design stuff with discrete on/off commands, i'd be even happier), so ir is the best solution for me at the moment. and frankly, works great.
the ip version was total plug and play, easy as pie as far as network setup. and, as you know, ired is so easy to program... can't believe i didn't do this before.
i'm glad i back up indigo's db every week because i wouldn't know what to do if i lost it that thing is so complex at this point. now, if i ever move i'm gonna have a serious borg-like setup to reinstall in the new place... but, that's life for a nerd isn't it?