Radio

[Alexander]

Last week i found my FM transmitter again. Before that week i was thinking of a way to have music around the house. There are wireless speakers, but can be expensive. Wireing all normal speakers through the house is something i'm not looking forward to. Besides, there must be a PA in a place where the wires join together. Than you have the problem to enable/disable per room.

So back to my FM transmitter, does anybody have seen a speaker with FM radio buildin in normal (or even smaller) size speakers?

Stuff like this is than also possible: http://www.domoticashop.com/internet/We ... radio.aspx


Alexander

[Mversluis]

Hi Mgizmo,

I have seen those radios / cd spelers before by a wholesaler. But can find the name any more.
I will have a look into some catalogues

Or just you can even waith for a month , because there will be a large fair ( electrobeurs ) and there would be plenty of the stuff ( I would espext ). Chak and I will go to those fair , maby you can send one of us a email with you;re requierments and will will look for you

Ciao Marco

[Alexander]

The radio mentioned in the first post has some extra cool functions:
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Het apparaat heeft twee parallelaansluitingen:

Via de 230 V-parallelaansluiting kan de radio bijv. met een lichtschakelaar of automatic-schakelaar worden ingeschakeld.
Via de potentiaalvrije parallelaansluiting kan de inbouwradio met een willekeurig potentiaalvrij maakcontact worden in- resp. uitgeschakeld. Wanneer op de parallelaansluiting een tijdschakelklok wordt aangesloten, kan de inbouwradio ook als radiowekker worden gebruikt.
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Alexander

[Verkenner]

Hi Alexander,

KBsound has inbuild radio's, see www.eissa.com.
I installed a KBsound and its works fine (2 buildin speakers).
But you need a KBsound for every room.

The better way: use an ab8ss (see www.hacs.com/ab8ss.php) with the Homeseer plugin. 2 PA-channel in and 8 out.
Oke, you need the wiring but it is more comfortable.

See this:
http://www.eissa.com/producto.aspx?FamI ... ogic=43493
Cost a little bit but there you'll get something

Regards, Verkenner

[AshaiRey]

Praxis have a waterproof wireless speaker system (can be used outside in the garden) for 59 Euro. Merk Alecto

I am building something like you discribe. A few rooms are wired, a few wireless and some others have netwerk access. My server have just one soundcard and the output is pumped ito the audio system throughout the house. By using the speaker client too you then can have different music on place where a computer is online. So it's basicly a two zone system.

Now i am upgrading it by a yet to be build switch box that will switch the music on/off to different rooms. The switch box will be connected to the parallel port of the server. This switch bos will cost about 35 euro on material.

To control all of this i made a very basic media center that can play music, show video and broadcast messages to the different rooms and pc's. It's programmed in vbscript and doesn't need any plugin or so.

[drmacchi]

@AshaiRey: your script can send different audio/video to different rooms ( a selective way so)? What does it control , which media player ? thanks.

[Alexander]

@Verkenner: To much effort. I know the system, but its not the solution at our place. This would be perfect for a new house with savings. Don't looking for a multi-zone system. How much was the kbsound?
@AshaiRey: Cant find it in their catalog (http://www.alecto.info/images/documents ... ochure.pdf) or did i overlooked it?

Alexander

[Verkenner]

Alexander, several months ago at Gamma, 99 Euro

Grtz, Verkenner

[AshaiRey]

@drmacchi
If the media is send to a web browser then you can as many music and video streams as that machine or netwerk can handle. I like to use basic standard installed software as possible in this case WMP. I don't like extra installs that need extra attention and updates.

Additional i use the HomeSeer speakerclient which can stream all sorts of audio and speech to addressed clients and as a general broadcast.

In the HS server there is one soundcard and a speaker client is installed too. That way i can stream music and speech to the wired and wireless sections of the house.

@mgizmo
I made a mistake, it wasn't Praxis but Gamma. Have a look here
http://www.voordeelmuis.nl/cgi-bin/v.cg ... 4&q=zender

[Snelvuur]

http://reviews.cnet.com/surround-speake ... 31402.html

As far as i know there is also a version for "outside" (these ones are on the rentepunten shop of ing, still almost the same price in a normal shop but still)

// Erik (binkey.nl)

[Alexander]

Will the 864 MHz frequency not block the Z-wave technology? It's a continuely stream. I'm still more interested in a radio kind of setup, because wireless speakers in different room would have problems with outputing the same music at the same time, i guess. The homeseer speaker client is also not the solution. You still have to buffer the sound and because of that have different starting points within the music.

Someone experience?

Alexander

[Snelvuur]

The only time my music was in sync was playing call of duty, it would sync regardless of computer speed etc.. and then all text and voices would be in game identical on both machines.. not much use of this but besides that i have not seen any programs that do a proper sync (maybe slimserver?) btw, the one i showed is 2.4ghz

// Erik (binkey.nl)

[Alexander]

so that's why i thought of a FM transmitter, which i have. All radios do receive the same broadcast. So please only radio's in this topic.

Alexander

[drmacchi]

why a speaker with fmreceiver inside and not a MP3 player with fm-receiver like:
Apacer AU824 Blue
MP4, 4GB, 1.8" Display, FM-Radio, Foto, Video or others similar.
i don't know if you MUST use earphones or can listen without them. Sigh ,i don't have a MP3 player

[Mversluis]

Just found one in my catalogus.
Don't no who is selling this product here in the netherlands

http://sonelco.com/