I just installed an OSD Audio ATM-7 Digital 7-Zone Dual Source Speaker Selector with Remote Control - purchased for $179 off Amazon. Blew me away on the lack of choice for reasonably priced IR controllable speaker selectors!
That said, i’m really happy with this unit so far. I’ve integrated it into my Harmony control, so i can now control it from ImperiHome, place in scenes, etc. Working great.
Unfortunately, since it’s IR only, i have no idea if a particular zone is on or off. And as two of my zones are outside, this might cause issues depending on when i’m playing music, etc.
Trying to think about how i might be able to get realtime status of zones, without trying to build some arduino device (which have none of), or heavy mods to the unit itself.
The only thing i can think of so far is a cheap IP camera pointed at the box, so i can actually see which zones are on/off. Clearly i can’t use this in scenes, but at least i’d know.
I would stick an Arduino + Wifi or a Spark Core inside it to read the LED voltages and transmit a UDP datagram when they change. It would require a simple plugin for Vera, though.
Another alternative is to put an IR/IP Bridge (e.g. Kira module) near it to receive the same IR codes and relay them to Vera. If you used a Kira, you could use my KiraRT plugin to give your direct triggers for scenes and PLEG.
[quote=“RexBeckett, post:2, topic:186173”]I would stick an Arduino + Wifi or a Spark Core inside it to read the LED voltages and transmit a UDP datagram when they change. It would require a simple plugin for Vera, though.
Another alternative is to put an IR/IP Bridge (e.g. Kira module) near it to receive the same IR codes and relay them to Vera. If you used a Kira, you could use my KiraRT plugin to give your direct triggers for scenes and PLEG.[/quote]
oh… that’s an interesting idea. and i could use it with my harmony to get zwave light control via IR finally.
In case anyone checks this later… i ended up using Multiswitch for this. Much cheaper, and i do risk that since this is IR it might get out of sync if anyone changes the unit manually… but since i’m the only one that really uses it… not much of an issue. Attached screen shot. Really happy with how this works. Updates across my tablets almost instantly.
When you speak of Multiswitch are you talking about a piece of hardware or the Multiswitch plugin? I’m not familiar with but from a search I found there is a multiswitch plugin in the app store. Please advise if this is what you mean…Thanks.
When you speak of Multiswitch are you talking about a piece of hardware or the Multiswitch plugin? I’m not familiar with but from a search I found there is a multiswitch plugin in the app store. Please advise if this is what you mean…Thanks.
Yep… the multiswitch plugin. Imperihome supports it, so you can see dynamic status changes from the plugin on the dashboard. you have to create a scene to turn on/off a speaker selection (using whatever IR contraption you have, like itach or Harmony).
then you attached the ON and OFF speaker selection scenes to one of the switches in the plugin. You can then test from the Vera UI (i’m on v15).
once you know it works… you can build the appropriate view in Imperihome.
NOTE… since there is now way to report the IR state back… if someone actually invokes the scene on it’s own (e.g. not through Multiswitch), it won’t show in multiswitch and it will get out of sync.
let me know if i’m not making sense, and i’ll try to walk you through it more.
[quote=“tomgru, post:7, topic:186173”]Yep… the multiswitch plugin. Imperihome supports it, so you can see dynamic status changes from the plugin on the dashboard. you have to create a scene to turn on/off a speaker selection (using whatever IR contraption you have, like itach or Harmony).
then you attached the ON and OFF speaker selection scenes to one of the switches in the plugin. You can then test from the Vera UI (i’m on v15).
once you know it works… you can build the appropriate view in Imperihome.
NOTE… since there is now way to report the IR state back… if someone actually invokes the scene on it’s own (e.g. not through Multiswitch), it won’t show in multiswitch and it will get out of sync.
let me know if i’m not making sense, and i’ll try to walk you through it more.[/quote]
I am currently only using iOS devices so can’t use Imperihome. I assume it will work just fine with VeraMate also which is what I am using mostly as I find it about the best for iOS. I have been thinking about getting an android tablet as well to fiddle around with so will likely do that soon, but for now want to try it with iOS. Can’t see why it shouldn’t work the same?
I would be the only one using it also and wouldn’t be doing any manual switches on it so getting out of sync would not be an issue for me.