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benjaminkeith
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Can someone point me in the direction of a good multi room audio option that will work well with power home?
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nick7920
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I use wireless Veho , mostly for audio announcements of power home (like garage door open) and some time music.
No noise, it is powered by USB adapter(I use my old phones USB adapter) re-chargeable battery.
Veho-VSS-002W-BLK-Speaker-System- (you can add more speaker)
It will also go into sleep mode , so after some time it will wake up after 5 sec of sound.
I had use Cables Unlimited Wireless - too much noise
also use Logitech will go into sleep mode and you have to manually wake them up.
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kemporama
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I installed the HAI Hi-Fi system throughout my house a few years back and we love it. The flexibility to place inputs for audio sources anywhere around the house is very convenient. You do need to have the speakers/controllers/inputs hardwired though, so if running wires in your walls is not an option then this may not be a good fit for you.
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bhlonewolf
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I'm a huge Sonos fan. I have 2 rooms hard wired, the rest are aren't -- but it works quite well and the software is amazing.
It does support UPnP, so I have some simple intergration with PH.
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RichardL
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Nick - what do you do about the power to the Vehos? I see that they need to be recharged after 8 hours.
I have gone with the Cables To Go wireless setup as a dedicated Home Automation broadcast setup, with a different system for music. You can find the SPK-VELO-4KIT2 (a kit of 4 speakers) for under $200. Right now they are backordered all over, but should be showing up soon. What I like about these is that each speaker can be plugged in to A/C power (or run on batteries), and each speaker has an independent volume control. Yes, like Nick, I found that much background noise was being emitted. What you need to do is to find a "quiet" power outlet to plug the transmitter in to. That made all the difference, I have 4 (soon going on 8) speakers throughout the house, and outdoors, and you don't know they are there.
Drawbacks include:
(1) like other wireless speakers, they go to sleep. I timed everything, so for those making the leap - they sleep after 4 minutes, and need 2.3 seconds of sound to wake up. So, my code takes a time snapshot when any alert is broadcast, and saves it into a global variable. When any alert is broadcast it reads the global variable to get the previous alert time, and if the difference (via PH.SecondsDiff) is more than 4 seconds, I play a WAV file that I edited and emits a low hiss for 2.3 seconds. I then play the broadcast. If the difference is less than 4 seconds, I skip the lead in hiss.
(2) if the speaker loses power, it does not turn back on (even if you have batteries in it). You have to run around and manually power them back on. At that point you also have to adjust the volume to where you had it. My solution was to piggy-back the speakers to APC power supplies that I have in various locations to support the computers I have throughout the house. For some I ran long zip cords to reach speaker locations. This is brute force, but I don't have to worry about power outages. I did have to cave in to buy two APC BE350G power supplies for about $45 each. I found these to be the cheapest/best UPS.
Another point - You should be able to control broadcasts being enabled or disabled easily. In my code I check against a KeyPadLinc which has a button per motion sensor - if the button is on, broadcast, if it is off, no broadcast. WAF accepted.
Have fun.
Richard
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nick7920
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"Nick - what do you do about the power to the Vehos? I see that they need to be recharged after 8 hours."
I have USB power plug into the wall outlet all the time, did not need to find "quiet" power it works in all, Speaker it self is very small and hides easily. I do almost like Richard to overcome sleep. and so far if speaker loses power it still works on battery.
Nick
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I've got Logitech Squeezebox setup and it works fairly
well. The controller responds to socket commands, so I've
got keypads that control stop/play in several rooms.
Depending on how fancy you want to get you can do almost
anything with socket commands on Squeezebox.
On the con side, it would appear that Logitech might be
discontinuing the entire product line.
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traviskleckner
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Okay, so I know this is old, but care to elaborate on
how you are controlling Sonos with PH? I just
replaced my Squeezeboxes with Sonos and need my
keypards to work again!
Thanks in advance.
bhlonewolf wrote:
I'm a huge Sonos fan. I have 2
rooms hard wired, the rest are aren't -- but it works
quite well and the software is amazing.
It does support UPnP, so I have some simple
intergration with PH. |
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