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Zoned IR With NetX?
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Post 1 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 13:50
Skrider
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Can someone who actually owns the NetX tell me whether or not the four emitter outputs allow for zoned control or all just work in parallel? I've spent a week getting routed around to different people at Phillips and can't get a straight answer.

Thanks!
Post 2 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 13:57
Andrew Dade
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Think they all work in parrallel... there does not appear to be an option to select which output in iprontoedit.

You can of course use more than one NetX...
Post 3 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 14:14
Goshdarnit
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Definitely right Andrew. All 4 outputs are permanently active. But each individual NetX is addressed separately, so only one NetX will be sending out IR at any given moment. Therefore, if you have the same lighting panel (for example) in 2 rooms, then you only address the NetX in the room you are using at the time. Hope that makes sense! Can't think of any reason you'd need "zones" within the same room, but I bet there is one!

BTW, even if you could address each output separately, you'd still need a NetX in each room, as the cables are not long enough for that!
OP | Post 4 made on Wednesday November 3, 2004 at 16:14
Skrider
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Thanks for the responses, I was afraid of that.

Goshdarnit - In answer to your question, the reason that I need multiple zones in a single room is that all components are located in one equipment closet. There are five cheap stereo receivers with A and B speaker outputs that control the 10 zones of audio in the house. This is a fairly economical way to achieve independent source and volume control throughout the house, but since they all use the same IR codes the IR output has to be routed to only one receiver at a time rather than blasting all of them.

I do realize that I could use multiple NetX's, but that would be cost prohibitive and sort of defeats the purpose of this setup.

Of course, if Phillips would actually open up the iPronto to allow the transmission of TCP/IP strings then I could use a Global Cache' interface and my problem would be solved. I can still do that with the iPronto via a PC and IR matching, but I was hoping to eliminate PC dependency from the chain.

Thanks!
Post 5 made on Thursday November 4, 2004 at 06:10
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I knew there'd be a reason! Sorry Skrider. I think you're stuffed on that one. You'd need 5 NetX's to do it!


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