Firstly, thanks for taking the time to read this:
I am a DIYer who has assembled a passable HT along with some random home automation controls. I have my house lights (all Zwave) running off a Vera box, and WAS running my home theater off a Logitech 890 before the inherent battery charging defect made it die a slow death.
Upon replacing the remote I discovered the 900 did not control zwave and all my HT lighting is zwave. All the components with the exception of my projector (Panny 7000) are in a cabinet. Here is a list of items to control:
1. Onkyo 3009
2. PS3
3. HD-DVD player
4. WD Live Media Streaming Device
5. Zwave lights
I have researched the heck out of an elegant solution but it seems none exist. I have the ps3 / harmony dongle, but with Logitech no longer including zwave I would be stuck with multiple remotes. I can get my hands on a cheap(er?) android tablet so I am leaning in that direction in combination with one of the multitude of IR blaster thingies (square connect etc.) but there is very little on the android side and I don't want to drop a thousand dollars just to make it sing together.
I get the impression I have the raw ingredients with the vera but the Ps3 is a bit of a crimp as without additional (limited functionality) IR dongles it can't be controlled except by Sony's proprietary bluetooth.
Help?
***Edit - While I was plunking away on the keys I thought that one option is to pick up a discrete blu-ray player as that is the primary function of the Ps3 - but my early experiences with the players is that they were incredibly slow to power up and load. Has this been fixed?***
I am a DIYer who has assembled a passable HT along with some random home automation controls. I have my house lights (all Zwave) running off a Vera box, and WAS running my home theater off a Logitech 890 before the inherent battery charging defect made it die a slow death.
Upon replacing the remote I discovered the 900 did not control zwave and all my HT lighting is zwave. All the components with the exception of my projector (Panny 7000) are in a cabinet. Here is a list of items to control:
1. Onkyo 3009
2. PS3
3. HD-DVD player
4. WD Live Media Streaming Device
5. Zwave lights
I have researched the heck out of an elegant solution but it seems none exist. I have the ps3 / harmony dongle, but with Logitech no longer including zwave I would be stuck with multiple remotes. I can get my hands on a cheap(er?) android tablet so I am leaning in that direction in combination with one of the multitude of IR blaster thingies (square connect etc.) but there is very little on the android side and I don't want to drop a thousand dollars just to make it sing together.
I get the impression I have the raw ingredients with the vera but the Ps3 is a bit of a crimp as without additional (limited functionality) IR dongles it can't be controlled except by Sony's proprietary bluetooth.
Help?
***Edit - While I was plunking away on the keys I thought that one option is to pick up a discrete blu-ray player as that is the primary function of the Ps3 - but my early experiences with the players is that they were incredibly slow to power up and load. Has this been fixed?***
