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Thank you, I don't mean to be flippant, but in the 21st century I have forsaken "wires" as much as possible. I am now waiting for power to go wireless.

This is excellent! Thanks! I know what I'm doing this weekend.

I have been using Roomie for a while now and it is fantastic, I love it. Oppo, Denon, directv, benq projector etc., all working flawlessly. My wife and I are considering a new build and I was wondering, what components should I be looking at for all lighting and heating and cooling. I will have a clean slate and would love to design around the ability to use Roomie to control EVERYTHING. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Dont know A/C, but Roomie works very well now with Radio Ra2. Big improvements in last roomie update.

I can't say the same for Insteon. Roomie is reporting all the device's status' correctly but I can't reliably control the devices. The "Scenes" don't appear on the manifest at all.

At least the app has stabilized. After building the Insteon manifest (about 140 devices) with the 1.8.0 release I could no longer use the lighting activity without the app abending. 1.81 helped and 1.8.2 has helped even more but the control issues continue.

For a device that is IP controllable, but doesn't have the function of wake on lan, do you just add two devices? One as an IP controlled device, one as IR, and then set the activity to the IP device, but power on via the IR device?

Yes power on & or off with the itach & control it via IP.

Thank you!

Hi,

I have just been reading up on Roomie and have a couple of questions:

1) Does anybody have any experience with a Denon AVR-989? It does have a serial port and I am wondering what functionality, if any, one might expect with Roomie (and an IP-to-serial)? Or am I going to be limited to just IR blasting? The main things I care about are volume, input selection, and output mode.

2) Should I only by the hardware, ie. iTach IP2IR only as in app purchase or is it ok to buy the hardware elsewhere?


Thanks.

I don't have experience with your Denon, but Roomie cites being able to provide live feedback support for "Volume, Mute, Power, Input, Mode" on the serial-enabled Denon models - this implies that these functions work even if you're not using feedback (!). [http://www.roomieremote.com/serial-compatibility/]

Regarding buying the iTach - an ITach is an iTach - so it doesn't matter where you purchase it from. Having said that, if the prices are not that far apart I would suggest buying from Roomie, just to "support the cause."

Dave

Anyone here who can recommend a media player kinda like WDTV Live, but one that works with Roomie and supports 3D?

Ok, thanks. I wasn't sure as the FAQ alluded to 2011/2012 Denon models while mine is 2008-ish.

Is there a tutorial/guide of some sorts on how to add custom IP codes? I don't have any programming skills, but I've gotten pretty good at following instructions. I've been poking around the DDK but can't seem to figure out how to exactly use it. (Is it just a bunch of examples?)

So, I have been playing around with Roomie and really loving it so far. My blu ray player is Sony BDP-S570. I use the DLNA feature of my blu ray very often. Is there a way to display what track is playing in the roomie remote ?

Anyone else have random lockups of the app? Mine will just freeze every now and then.

My wife has experienced this since 1.8.

Roomie just updated to 1.8.3, which hopefully will help with this issue.

So far 1.8.3 has seemed to fix this problem.

Rew

Yep, rock solid now.

I've had a few lock ups even in 1.8.3 that never really seemed to occur in 1.7. Im guess it's related to the WiFi sync, as I have five devices syncing. I will disable it for a bit and see if there's a change.

Same experience here. My real struggle continues with attempting to reliably control Insteon devices via IP->ISY->PLM. No luck there yet.

Interesting - I was about to buy the ISY994 because I suddenly starting have issues with the 2412N Insteon interface being reliable - maybe 1.8 is the issue with any of these Insteon controllers...

I have a 2412N and was considering replacing it with an ISY994 as well due to the improved support in Roomie. I think I'll hold off a bit for now.

Are you able to get anything working with the 2412N and Roomie 1.8x? I can't get any of the devices to respond, nor can I get any feedback. I was able to get devices to respond in 1.7x (no feedback though) but cannot in 1.8x.

It is very intermittent now, that's the best I can say - I can press a defined button five times - it might work on the first time, third time, or fifth time...

This does not appear to be related to the ISY. Roomie is crazy with intermittent and delayed deliveries of the IP commands to the ISY. I can't make sense of it from looking at the detailed event logs. However, my device's status' appear to be maintained correctly.


Falling back on the MobiLinc IOS app for Insteon control for the time being. I could always go the IR route with Roomie->Itach->ISY but that is a serious kluge I hope to avoid.

I better get a dialog going with Roomie support again.

Mine crashes several times a day.

Hi, techies:

I would appreciate your advice on the Roomie Remote. I've searched the Roomie site and forums and read through this forum completely, but I can't find answers as to the equipment I would need to build a Roomie system or how to get it working.

I want to control the components listed in my signature below, so my wife may use our system easily. I only wish basic functions like power on/off, input selection, volume, mute, play/pause/stop. I don't care about controlling lighting, drapes, fish grooming, or other functions. I want something that won't require line of sight, and I don't want to have to stick emitters on the front of the components. I would like to be able to program changes into the system, for example, when we get a new display.

I was hoping to control the system through an iPad/iPad Mini. We have an Apple gigabit network using an Airport Extreme and an Express to extend range. I could locate another Extreme or Express near my components.

All of our components (except for the TV) have RS232. I know nothing about this method of control and would appreciate any insights you might offer. For example, I've seen the iTach serial adapter boxes for wifi and ethernet on the Roomie site but don't understand how they work. Would I need one of these for each component? How do they connect together?

Of our components, only the Oppo 105 is included in Roomie's serial compatibility list. They referred me to a Device Development Kit, but I don't know what this entails. Our Bryston SP3 processor is listed in the Roomie IR compatibility list.

If my queries are so basic as to divert this thread with information that the participants already know, perhaps you could PM me?

Thanks very much,

RJ

Ip2serial one per device gets costly quick! Almost all of my devices allow ip contol. I think my jvc projector and oppo bdp required serial adapters. I have an ir adapter in living room for panny vt25 tv that I couldn't get to work with ip or serial! I have one in bedroom for Apple TV. Basically all equipment in my home works with straight Ethernet from a switch.

Hey RJ, not sure I subscribe to the "techie" salutation, but here's a few thoughts: I'm not aware of an RS232/serial splitter, so you do have a 1-to-1 relationship with a device being controlled by serial and an iTach serial port. In your case, if you went 100% serial, you would need an iTach per device being controlled (a couple of the models in the GC-100 range from the same company offer two serial ports per unit) - mystikjoe is absolutely correct, this gets really expensive, real fast!

In terms of how the iTach boxes "work" - your iPad connects to the network, and Roomie is configured to know the IP address of the iTach that is associated with a specific piece of equipment. When you use Roomie to send a device-specific command it gets routed to the iTach tied to the device. If the iTach or GC-100 has multiple ports, Roomie is configured to know "what goes to what".

The wireless iTach is used when you don't have convenient ethernet access from the device being controlled to your home network - it allows you to control a device that may be located away from a hub/switch/router. The two variants operate identically, but one uses a physical connection to the network, the other a wireless connection.

If your device is IP-enabled (and Roomie IP comptible), this is a great way to go and doesn't require any form of iTach/GC-100 if you have access to your home network.

Both IP and serial have the potential to give you control with feedback, which is a nice feature.

Probably the most flexible route is to use IR, but this doesn't have the option for feedback. As you want to avoid stick-on emitters, the only way to use it would be with a discretely positioned IR blaster (one blaster controlling multiple devices, as long as it has line of sight access) or using a hard-wired IR connection if your piece of equipment has that feature.

I have created several custom Roomie IR code segments for some of the more obscure gear that I own, but would personally shy away from attempting to write a custom RS-232 version without help.

Not sure if these ramblings help at all, but hopefully it's a start.

Dave

Is there a post/thread somewhere that explains the basic setup for someone thats completely clueless?