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post #1171 of 1242
1/19/13 at 6:24am
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I just now finished reading all 39 pages! What a great thread. I look forward to watching the videos later. So that answers my question, you haven't done the GE or some other lighting controller yet? I really like the XBMC conversation in here as well. If you do a meetup please let me know.
If I do a meetup I'll post a mention in the thread. I'm already thinking of possible times.

I might eventually install some Crestron lighting control. I'm a Crestron programmer, after all. biggrin.gif My main concern about that is that there is approximately 900 feet of 12AWG Romex crammed into that 4-gang box. I had to do everything except jackhammer that wall box into place as it is!
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post #1172 of 1242
1/19/13 at 4:17pm
Man the room is looking fantastic! Very nicely done. I am always amazed at the before and after shots. Sometimes it takes so long to get a room "finished" and we see it in certain stages for lengthy periods of time (or at least that is true for me) we forget just how much of a transformation we have made. The before and afters tend to bring that into sharp focus.

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RTROSE
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post #1173 of 1242
1/20/13 at 5:41am
The before and afters are AWESOME! Hey, give enough heads up to plan for your get together. I WILL be there and likely have 2-3 other guys with me!
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post #1174 of 1242
1/21/13 at 1:00pm
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Man the room is looking fantastic! Very nicely done. I am always amazed at the before and after shots. Sometimes it takes so long to get a room "finished" and we see it in certain stages for lengthy periods of time (or at least that is true for me) we forget just how much of a transformation we have made. The before and afters tend to bring that into sharp focus.

Regards,

RTROSE

Thanks! I marvel at the photos when I go back in time in Lightroom or Final Cut. Even watching the first video or two is shocking.
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post #1175 of 1242
1/21/13 at 1:00pm
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The before and afters are AWESOME! Hey, give enough heads up to plan for your get together. I WILL be there and likely have 2-3 other guys with me!

Thanks! I'll do that, for sure!
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post #1176 of 1242
1/27/13 at 12:37am
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The before and afters are AWESOME! Hey, give enough heads up to plan for your get together. I WILL be there and likely have 2-3 other guys with me!

Are you counting me in? smile.gif Those are my old F-20's you know!!!!
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post #1177 of 1242
1/27/13 at 10:09am
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Are you counting me in? smile.gif Those are my old F-20's you know!!!!

If he's not, I am!
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post #1178 of 1242
1/27/13 at 3:05pm
If you still have room, I would like to come as well. Not much of a HT community here. It would be nice to talk shop with local enthusiasts - see what works and what doesn't.
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post #1179 of 1242
1/27/13 at 3:45pm
Yes Beast, I was thinking of you. wink.gif
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post #1180 of 1242
1/27/13 at 7:44pm
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Yes Beast, I was thinking of you. wink.gif

Haha! Thanks boss! Hope all is well with ya smile.gif We need to get up again for sure soon, Lots of new things up here smile.gif I can't keep anything in the theater long enough but I think this last build out will hopefully be one to stay for a while biggrin.gif
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post #1181 of 1242
1/31/13 at 7:26pm
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I just wanted to share with you some photos I took of a 100-seat theater my company just wrapped up. This room will be used for documentary studies lectures and during a film festival.
Projector: a big NEC 11,000 lumen job
Speakers: JBL
Surround: Crestron DAP-8
Screen: 16x9 foot Draper acoustically transparent

Sure is a handsome room. I did my best to make it sound right but that's a challenging room that had a very hands-off acoustician (as you can see).


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post #1182 of 1242
1/31/13 at 9:45pm
That is very cool! I like the industrial look.
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post #1183 of 1242
1/31/13 at 10:27pm
Is there a speaker behind the screen somewhere? Any photos?
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post #1184 of 1242
2/1/13 at 4:13am
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I just wanted to share with you some photos I took of a 100-seat theater my company just wrapped up. This room will be used for documentary studies lectures and during a film festival.
Projector: a big NEC 11,000 lumen job
Speakers: JBL
Surround: Crestron DAP-8
Screen: 16x9 foot Draper acoustically transparent

Sure is a handsome room. I did my best to make it sound right but that's a challenging room that had a very hands-off acoustician (as you can see).



Nice work!

The ceiling and floor reflections are prob diffused enough with the seating and all the wires and ducts etc on the ceiling but yeah the sides, front, and back walls seem to beg for treatment......

Any SUBS? They behind the screen? A room that big would normally resort to horns and maybe a cluster of horns possibly behind screen, but you know what thats like though, DONT YOU......... wink.gif
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post #1185 of 1242
2/1/13 at 9:17am
They could have done much better on the screen. smile.gif

Cheers,
Chris
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post #1186 of 1242
2/1/13 at 2:42pm
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They could have done much better on the screen. smile.gif

Cheers,
Chris

I told them the EXACT SAME THING and then I explained the virtues of the XD material. rolleyes.gif What you can't see is a pretty bad moire artifact that's caused (I presume) by over-stretching the material. It looks like a fingerprint on the screen during scenes of high brightness.
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post #1187 of 1242
2/1/13 at 2:44pm
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Is there a speaker behind the screen somewhere? Any photos?

No photos of the installation, sorry. There is a two-cabinet JBL line array of some kind and a JBL subwoofer behind the screen. The sub is vastly insufficient to fill that space, IMO.
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post #1188 of 1242
2/1/13 at 2:48pm
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Nice work!

The ceiling and floor reflections are prob diffused enough with the seating and all the wires and ducts etc on the ceiling but yeah the sides, front, and back walls seem to beg for treatment......

Any SUBS? They behind the screen? A room that big would normally resort to horns and maybe a cluster of horns possibly behind screen, but you know what thats like though, DONT YOU......... wink.gif

jajaja... there's never enough bass for YOU, ya lunatic! cool.gif

There is a *single* 15" JBL subwoofer behind the screen. Poor thing is really getting taxed BUT I must insist that this room was primarily designed for documentaries that typically have only stereo audio... If _I_ had had a say in it then the audio system would be rather different! All I do is make the purty remote controls.
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post #1189 of 1242
2/9/13 at 10:54pm
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Muahahahaha! Siri is now under my control! Thanks to some very talented geniuses I am now able to send text commands via Siri on my iPhone to my Crestron system.

I followed the very detailed and very involved instructions from this article to install SiriProxy on a Raspberry Pi. Once it was installed I managed to get it responding to commands and reporting to the Crestron system in the theatre.

I am able to perform basic tasks (one-way commands) now. I'm hoping that establishing commands with feedback / acknowledgement will be straightforward.

Here's my debug log from Crestron:

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post #1190 of 1242
2/9/13 at 11:15pm
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Sweet. This is a done-deal now!



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post #1191 of 1242
2/10/13 at 12:10am
That is freaking awesome. It would be great if you could upload a video demonstration of your theatre "warming up" for us all.
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post #1192 of 1242
2/10/13 at 2:55am
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Muahahahaha! Siri is now under my control! Thanks to some very talented geniuses I am now able to send text commands via Siri on my iPhone to my Crestron system.

I followed the very detailed and very involved instructions from this article to install SiriProxy on a Raspberry Pi. Once it was installed I managed to get it responding to commands and reporting to the Crestron system in the theatre.

I am able to perform basic tasks (one-way commands) now. I'm hoping that establishing commands with feedback / acknowledgement will be straightforward.

Here's my debug log from Crestron:


That is freakin' bad-ass!!! Next thing you know, you'll have an external microphone linked to the Siri app so you don't even have to have the phone or I iPad handy. That's too slick. From now on I'm just going to call you Tony Stark if that's OK with you. smile.gif

So.....I have to ask....is a side project like this something us mere mortals can accomplish or do you have to be uber-sophisticated from a programming perspective? And is it something unique to Crestron hardware or software to translate a text message into a functional command or can it be adapted to a variety of control systems?

Can you say "Siri, play Metallica's Black Album, Iron man 2, etc." and have the correct digital media start playing? What are some of the ranges of capabilities with this system?
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post #1193 of 1242
2/10/13 at 1:06pm
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That is freakin' bad-ass!!! Next thing you know, you'll have an external microphone linked to the Siri app so you don't even have to have the phone or I iPad handy. That's too slick. From now on I'm just going to call you Tony Stark if that's OK with you. smile.gif

So.....I have to ask....is a side project like this something us mere mortals can accomplish or do you have to be uber-sophisticated from a programming perspective? And is it something unique to Crestron hardware or software to translate a text message into a functional command or can it be adapted to a variety of control systems?

Can you say "Siri, play Metallica's Black Album, Iron man 2, etc." and have the correct digital media start playing? What are some of the ranges of capabilities with this system?

Thanks, man. I'll take that monicker.

I stood on the shoulders of very smart people with this one. I followed a detailed tutorial but it still took me around 6 hours from start to finish. None of that time accounts for anything on the Crestron side of things either.

SiriProxy is the software that makes this possible. SiriProxy acts as a man in the middle and intercepts messages bound for Apple's Siri servers (Guzzoni). There's a file that contains commands that you write. If the command you send Siri IS in that file then it executes some code. If it's NOT in the list then it forwards it on to the Apple servers.

The "turn on theater" text that is transmitted by the SiriProxy software could go anywhere... Homeseer, Twitter, AMX, Control4... I chose to route it to Crestron since that's what I use. I configured my Crestron system with a TCP/IP Server object so that it would tell the world that it is ready to accept inbound transmissions of data.

Theoretically you could edit this file to include customized commands like the "Black Album" command you mention. My theater power command is very specific and relies on NO additional variables passing amongst functions. It's dumb that way but dumb's easy.
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post #1194 of 1242
2/10/13 at 1:20pm
Wow, Mr. Stark! That's impressive!

Can you imagine the look on people's faces if you walked into your theater and said, "Jarvis, let's watch Iron Man tonight,' and your theater/Siri took care of the rest!
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post #1195 of 1242
2/10/13 at 5:25pm
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Wow, Mr. Stark! That's impressive!

Can you imagine the look on people's faces if you walked into your theater and said, "Jarvis, let's watch Iron Man tonight,' and your theater/Siri took care of the rest!

Actually I think we are a lot closer to that type of thing now that just a couple of years ago. That would be very cool though.

That theater you help out with is pretty cool. Totally different than anything I have seen before, but very cool none the less.

Regards,

RTROSE
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post #1196 of 1242
2/10/13 at 5:32pm
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Wow, Mr. Stark! That's impressive!

Can you imagine the look on people's faces if you walked into your theater and said, "Jarvis, let's watch Iron Man tonight,' and your theater/Siri took care of the rest!

That's probably possible by passing the string on to the XBMC unit. It might be that I could use the Crestron as a conduit for that kind of thing. I could fairly easily parse out the title name as long as it was delivered in an expected format, e.g. "Play [TITLE NAME] in the theater"
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post #1197 of 1242
2/11/13 at 11:42am
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Ooh.. Better: "Play [title name] in the [room name] at [time]" would be way cool. I wonder if SiriProxy can handle an input string like that with variable parameters...
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post #1198 of 1242
2/11/13 at 12:22pm
jdanforth -

I'll have to tap you later when I get further down the road. I had planned on iPad mini control with a crest on system. I've actually purchased the lighting controller, but thats it at this point. I'm months out, but would like to understand your creston setup, limitations, etc. I'm no concerned about Siri, just the basics.

Bud
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post #1199 of 1242
2/11/13 at 2:54pm
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jdanforth -

I'll have to tap you later when I get further down the road. I had planned on iPad mini control with a crest on system. I've actually purchased the lighting controller, but thats it at this point. I'm months out, but would like to understand your creston setup, limitations, etc. I'm no concerned about Siri, just the basics.

Bud

Please do. I'd be happy to help you plan your Crestron system.
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post #1200 of 1242
2/12/13 at 6:27am
That is way cool with Siri. I would love to figure out a way to incorporate a Kinect to use gestures or voice command without the phone.
Edited by wraunch - 2/12/13 at 8:09am
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