MS-1200: $600. MS-780: $250. I think the MS-780 also requires the $150 ZR-01 repeater if you want to use it with the MRX-10 ($700).

Very good price points for what they offer. Thanks Daniel.

Vincent

With the new remotes, any way to control lighting (any new lighting switches/dimmers with lutron??).

Currently I have URC lutron dimmers (3), not installed and was planning to get a 880 or 980 for my small setup and do 3 zones of lighting in my HT>

so - what is the best route?

URC sells an external RF transmitter that can be added onto their previous network control systems for use with non-RF remotes; it should work with these? URC lighting is mentioned in the Total Control docs (though nothing new there).

Are these expected to have better wifi range than tha MX6000 or as good as in iTouch/iPad?

Yes, you can add an RFTX-1 to the MRX-10 to control URC lighting. It's the pink jack at the right end of the unit.

For those going to CEDIA, here's a message from URC's Hank Eisengrein:

"I’m teaching four classes at CEDIA Expo 2010:

1. Wednesday at Noon the Total Control “Super Secret Two “ class

2. Friday at the crack of dawn (OK, 8 am) Introduction to CCP Programming

3. Saturday at Noon, the Total Control Super Secret two class again

4. Saturday at 4PM the seventh annual Hank “Tips and Tricks” class to close out a whole week of training.

I’m at the training room most of the time but I have some booth time so tell everyone to look for me.

Our big party is Thursday at 6:30 pm at Stats with Los Straitjackets playing live (check them out here: www.straitjackets.com)"

Check at the booth for party info. If you haven't been to one of Hank's classes, you should go. It's something everyone should experience. LOL

See you there!

Mike

Always fun and informative with Hank!

Be sure to have your stupid questions prepared. You can win prizes with stupid questions....

Gene,

Sounds neat. What software do you use on your windows media center pc to enable ip control? Is it this software: http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/ ?

I'm looking for something similar that works well for windows 7 and would allow for passing information such as the current title being played to a home automation system...

etc6849,

Yes, it's http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com and I am switching to Win 7 soon.
I saw posts on the net where people got it to work with 64 and 32 versions of 7


[Link: bjdraw.com]

Thanks Gene!

I tried vmcController under windows 7 last year. No worky then, but I'm playing with the new 5/2010 version after reading your post. It's passing the current song/video metadata on 64 bit Windows 7 under telnet; haven't tried 32 bit yet. All I did was run the 5/2010 installer.

However, I have one dumb question: the telnet service for the vmcController doesn't start until WMC starts! This is a huge draw back as I was hoping I could use vmcController to open and close media center. Am I doing something wrong?

VMCController is a background mediacenter application, so you are not doing anything wrong. It would be nice if it was written as a windows service but we can't be picky since it is a free application. huge thanks goes out to the guy who originally opened the source code and the guys who continue to work on it!

What's the word on the SNP-1....expected shipping date? Price? 

What did you guys think of it?

Don't expect any of the new stuff before the first of the year. You would think that the SNP-1 would be out first as it can work with existing systems, but that's not what I heard.

BTW, here's a fun clip about URC's CEDIA presence I found on

See if you can identify who each character really is. ;-)