On 09/22/04 11:47 ET, pipman said...
I guess i'm just a mug for the promise of future
upgradability ;) You would tell this quite easily
if you saw my kit as its all Tag McLaren - and
I didn't mind paying the premium for the upgrade
path.
I have actually taken advantage of this path pretty
much every time it has been made available, the
main upgrade being the AV32R to the AV192R.
I did look longingly at the Tag stuff but at that price point my heart is almost irretrievably set on Meridian ... but then when you start looking at that then the DSP5000 speakers look tempting too and suddenly you're up in new TVR territory. :-D
I hear you and agree on your comment re. keeping
the iPronto as a remote control - frankly I don't
care about being able to view photos on it.
Nope - me neither.
However, there are 2 things I really want my iPronto
to do, the main one being an rs232 netx extender
(2-way) to control/read both my Tag AV kit and
Lutron lighting.
I know that one person on here is making noises about getting hold of a NetX and reverse engineering the protocols plus I'm plugging away at my guy at Philips to see if I can convince them to do something in the way of a software NetX. It's unlikely that there will ever be two way comms though as that opens up a whole can of worms at the iPronto end as to how to handle incoming data.
Call it gimmicky but being able to see on my iPronto
current volume, processing mode, scaler settings
etc would be much nicer than having to see it
on the screen.
It would but I don't think it will happen...
I was also looking to hook up my video entry phone
to the iPronto, this would require another rs232
unit to allow me to automatically open the driveway
doors and also a video streaming facility to use
the camera, would also make use of the iPronto
speakers & microphone!!
/me spots a huge jump in functionality / hardware demands / complexity here ... again I think you have a snowball in hell's chance of that.
This concept could be extended to many applications,
and until they are available it won't compete
with the crestron/amx style of system (although
i'm not clear if this was ever the intention)
- rs232 was always promised by Philips, I hope
they still deliver on this promise otherwise I
might end up going to a full blown amx system.
OK - well in my usual badgering emails to them this morning I did put forward whether it might be feasible to produce a version of the NetX that had a serial output on it rather than an IR output...
I wanted to use my iPronto as a complete home
automation tool, sadly at present it is simple
an AV remote control...
But *WHAT* an AV remote...
Phil
