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Hi guys,

I am a newbie in this stuff, I am planing for the new house a 4source/4zone audio distribution.
I have thinked buying the Xantech D5RHK, and all the sources (DirecTV, Bluray Player, Radio tuner and PC) will be in the same room.
I want to be able to control all these equiment with the same remote. The important thing is that I want also to be able to control the music form the PC with the same remote ( being able to browse, select, see what's playing), one thing I would want if achivebale is to have 2way also with the radio tuner (basically just to see which station is on). One last thing I want, is to be able to control in each zone the D5RH keypads that have a built/in IR receiver.
Is all this control system possible to get with iRule and an iPad?
I currently don't have any hardware as I am planning and also subjecting hardware acquisitions according to what I need to get to achieve this.

it appears the irule website is down, anybody know what is going on?

Hopefully iRule 2.0 is coming!!!!! ;-)

What's up with the homepage? Can't connect and I want to order!

Anyone know of a global caché retailer in Sweden or any good online shop that can ship their hardware to Sweden?

Thanks in advance!

Thanks Barry...

check out smarthome.com they ship internationally

Hi,
You can contact SYDIA at www.sydia.se. They import GC to sweden.
BRGDS,
Jacob from Denmark

Hmm, they don't seem to sell the european wall power adapter


Yeah saw that they were retailers in sweden, however, they sell the WF2IR for 300 USD basically :/

juanPfiefer,

When it comes to a music source on a PC my choice has always been Squeezeserver from Logitech. you would need some sort of "Player" and my choice in your case would be a receiver which is the least expensive player. If your PC has a good audio system then IIRC there is a software based player that is free that would run on the PC. iRule won't control the Squeezesystem, but there is a $10 app called squeezepad that is superb in that regard. Squeezepad will even send a WOL to the PC if need be. Squeezepad will give you all you want on the iPad in the way of music control and display. Squeeze players run in price from about $150 to $1500, The difference in audio quality is zero if you are using the digital outputs, but may be significant (depends on the age of your ears) if using analog outputs.

Barry, you are on here a lot. Do you know what is going on with the website? I can't get into irulebuilder.

It seems iTia is MIA and Barry Gordon must be with him because he is not responding either. I am hoping I didn't just blow some money on iRule.

Barry hasn't posted in 2 hours and you call him MIA? hahahaha I guess Barry is not allowed to have a life

With the other company selling iRule under another name and as a total pkg. I can only speculate that we will only see 2.0 under another name or company for a much higher price.

Thanks a lot for your info Barry,

It's now a month sicnce I began researching and reading for this project, i did not knew anything about all this whole house audio, remote control etc before. I think I'm finally getting a really basic undestanding on it, and I need to make my mind cause as I live in Colombia I'm heading to the states for vacations and I'll buy everything needed. I saw the squeezebox and thought would be really good, then I found the AppleTV, even Airport Express and i think it fits better with less cost, as you can handle everything with the Remote app, and if I'm right and from the answer given to me by iRule support, you can put a Remot app icon in the iRule that changes to the Remore app library to be able to contril this, am I right?
The only two things I still dont know if it will be possible or not is that as I am planning to get the Xantech D5RHK (which i saw has a rs232port) and it's connectd to inwall keyapds for each zone, do you think with the iRule I can control it? I mean, what i would preferablly not want is to need to change manually source input on the keypad or with the mini IR control that comes with. I want be doing it withiRule for example that I program a button called listen pc music, it automatically sends mo the the Remota App for AppleTV OR airexpress AND that it also changes the source of the zone I am to the apple tv input. I dont know how else to explain it, and as I dont undestarnd these protocols, do not know if htat RS232 port the Zantech has is going to let me do that.

Would be great to know it this can be done!! (and how!!)

It's kind of weird they wouldn't let anyone know anything if the downtime has to do with maintenance, right?
I'm still hoping for a desktop-app instead of the web-app, precisely because of things like this.

Guys, calm down. The builder is still up and there is no evidence to say something bad happened.

Note the Irule "Marketing site" is a totally different site than the builder. It could be as simple as a problem with their host, they are updating the marketing site to account for v2.0 (I hope), or something else.

While is sucks not to know what is going on, hold judgement until we hear something.

iTai, If you are switching over to V2.0 stuff it would have been good to have a landing page that stated so or post an update before the process began to keep people from freaking out. Worst case you lost $50 and can use your hardware with another offering.

I know my bad, I am more concerned that I can't get into Irule after paying for the software.

If they are going to have a new website and pricing structure for 2.0, they still have a responsibility to support the current rev that they were still selling last week.

What are you unable to do today, that you could last week? The builder is still up.

Everybody needs to relax.
I hope Itai is too busy finishing 2.0 off or if there is a problem with the website, that he is working to fix it instead of posting an update for us here.

I guess I am doing something wrong because I go to iBuilder through the iRule website link.

I am still alive and well. I spend alternate mornings at Cardiac Rehab, at least for one more day; I needed a valve job a few months ago and am fully recovered (I think).

I am generally at the machine when I am home but I do have a life. My web site describes it; but needs to be updated for more recent "Life" events.

I also read a lot and watch a lot of film and TV. Oh yes, I go out often with my GF who is an ex runway model and quite a bit younger than I.

I have not heard back from iTai and when I do I will post a note.

Juan,

I looked at the manual for the Xantech device and it does not appear to have an IR input that I can see. It definately does not have a hard wired IR input, but might have a receiver on the front panel (How ever I doubt it as it appears to be rack mountable).

It has an RS232 port, but that port is not documented except to registered dealers. I will try and get a copy. It is really designed as a fairly proprietary solution using Xantech keypads and expansion devices. I would look for a more simple system.

By the sound of it Barry you just did update your Bio

any idea guys ? IT doesnt make sense that every command records and works well (and the decoder requires that I only repeat the command once) except for the fwd and rev buttons ?

I too want to retire my harmony :P

Thanks Barry,

Good to know your opinion! Well as I did not know much about it, I thought that was the best option, but now that you say it, I know this should be in another threadm but what do you think in term of specs I should be looking at to get what i want and be able to control it with iRule? Just want a 4source/4zone multiroom audio system.

builder.iruleathome.com will get you straight there.

RJUCH,

Send me the hex as learned, of all the commands. Mark the patterns with the name of the command. Mark the two that don't work special so I can spot them easily. Send it to me as a single text file using the email address in my profile. I will take a look at them and see if I can help you.

thank you

Interesting. Are you only referring to delay in a macro or a delay for a single command? For testing purpose I have not used it in a macro but as amsingle command.

Thanks

Hi all,

Just to let everyone know that are having issues accessing www.iruleathome.com. According the website hosting company, they are experiencing a denial of service attack.

Hopefully they can get it resolved soon.


Alex

Macro Only, you did not say if it was a macro or single command.

I did not try to switch it on/off outside of a macro so initially I assumed it was the command/hex that had the problem. In faultfinding the problem I issued the command individually and it worked. That led me to the conclusion that it was the macro and a delay fixed it.

Cheers
Pat