With Autonomic Controls, users can integrate Pandora to create and play their own Internet radio stations within a whole-house entertainment system.
Your customer can use an AMX touchscreen (or another home control) to "build" an Internet radio station based on an affinity towards an artist or group.
Pandora interface is part of Autonomic's entertainment platform, so users customize radio stations. The customer can "Wake Up" with lights on in the master bathroom and listen as his customized Pandora station draws down tunes from Dylan’s "Desire" album. Autonomic software lets users build Pandora radio stations based on anything with metadata.
In other Autonomic news at EHX, the company is launching its first hardware product, the ACMS (Autonomic Commercial Media Server). The ACMS features 7.1 audio and 12 additional music zones. Loaded with Autonomic's MCS media management software and a few additional features, it offers options for scheduling media as well system-wide synchronization.
"You can have master and slaves," says Autonomic's Michael Toscano. "You can put one in each hotel and just program one of them. They all sync up."
Go Autonomic Opens Pandora's Radio
Autonomic Integrates Pandora Internet Radio
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- Control and Home Media Systems
Master Off Switch Puts Home on Stand-by
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- Home Automation
When your front door locks behind you, the doubts begin to creep in….did you turn the TV off? Is the iron still on?
At CeBIT, digitalSTROM.org presents a new technology to end this post-partem stress…a technology that provides greater security and lower energy consumption. A small chip, smaller than a fingernail, connects all the electrical devices via the existing electricity network so they can be be controlled with traditional switches. When leaving the house a "master off switch" (can be placed on any number of power sockets) allows the whole house to be placed in standby mode.
In theory, each individual electrical device can be equipped with a digitalSTROM-Chip. The system also measures energy consumption right down to individual appliance level. A simple traffic light system or analysis on a computer shows if energy consumption is above average. This means that a faulty refrigerator seal can be detected as rapidly as a dripping tap.
Go DigitalStrom
49 Gutsy Survival Tips from Steve Hays, SnapAV
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- Feature
49 Gutsy Survival Tips from Steve Hays, SnapAV
Steve Hays at SnapAV in USA wowed an audience of American installers at EHX with his “49 Gutsy Survival Tips” in 49 minutes…
We contacted Steve to ask if he could share a few tips with European installers. Instead, he sent us all 49 but the good news is you can take your time in absorbing them. We’re providing it via a download (below).
See 49 Gutsy Survival Tips
World’s First Cinema Proportion TV
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- TVs, Displays and Mounts
Philips Shows World’s First Cinema Proportion TV
IFA holds its Press Conference each year well in advance of its late-August Berlin show. This year the trade show organizer came to Malta where industry sponsors demonstrated products to the more than 300 top technology journalists (including RAVE EUROPE).
Most interesting were the high end residential TV ranges like Loewe and the new Philips 21:9 cinema proportion TV. Philips linked their presentation to the new James Bond. Grab some popcorn and see the demo here…
World’s First Cinema Proportion TV
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- Home Theater
Philips Shows World’s First Cinema Proportion TV
IFA holds its Press Conference each year well in advance of its late-August Berlin show. This year the trade show organizer came to Malta where industry sponsors demonstrated products to the more than 300 top technology journalists (including RAVE EUROPE).
Most interesting were the high end residential TV ranges like Loewe and the new Philips 21:9 cinema proportion TV. Philips linked their presentation to the new James Bond. Grab some popcorn and see the demo here…
Home Automation System to 2.8 Million in 2011
- 10. 05. 2009
- Bob Snyder
- Home Automation
Home Automation System to 2.8 Million in 2011
Largely undeterred by current negative economic conditions, vendors of home automation will ship nearly 2.8 million systems in 2011, says ABI Research.
Only one of the four segments of this market –luxury systems – will be significantly impacted by the recession, according to senior analyst Sam Lucero. “The luxury home automation market for systems costing more than $50,000 is relatively mature, so it will feel the greatest impact from the recession. Two other segments – standards-based mainstream home automation systems and home automation as a service - are so new and have so much room for growth that they should expand rapidly starting in 2010 no matter the progress of the wider economic recovery. Likewise, the final segment – DIY home automation – is tied to a certain extent to these other newer segments and should also see healthy growth.”
New standards-based wireless technologies (ZigBee, Z-Wave, etc) inspire many mainstream home automation installations in the $10-15,000 range with prices falling fast. This segment is further driven by the growing availability of peripheral components that are available not only from the vendors themselves but through retail outlets.