[Multimedia] "whole house audio" mit knx und "3rd party" ?

[bulek]

Hallo,
Ich würde bitten, wenn Sie mir geben kann einige kurze Informationen über Möglichkeiten zur Durchführung des ganzen Hauses Audiosystem in einem Haus mit bestehenden EIB-Anlage. Bitte geben Sie mir von der preiswerten Optionen zur teureren Lösungen ...

Vielen Dank im Voraus,

Grüße,

Bulek

Ps: Google-Übersetzung aus dem Englischen - hoffentlich werden Sie mich verstehen ..

[makki]

First of all: I guess it's easier in English then, rather than punishing someone with bad translation-engines AFAIK it's not forbidden..

Regarding your question, this is a very wide subject, first of all I'd suggest to separate the MRS-Amp from the "Players".
So I'll just give you some keywords somehow in order of my own preference: Russound, mpd (as a player++ ario etc), vdr, Squeezebox, macmyhome (and many more)

On the upper end (regarding price, not quality or performance), if you'd really want to spend more than a mid-class car you could also have a look on IMHO weird stuff like Crestron or AMX (which mainly are a proprietary Homeautomation-system)

Makki

[bulek]

First of all: I guess it's easier in English then, rather than punishing someone with bad translation-engines AFAIK it's not forbidden..

Regarding your question, this is a very wide subject, first of all I'd suggest to separate the MRS-Amp from the "Players".
So I'll just give you some keywords somehow in order of my own preference: Russound, mpd (as a player++ ario etc), vdr, Squeezebox, macmyhome (and many more)

On the upper end (regarding price, not quality or performance), if you'd really want to spend more than a mid-class car you could also have a look on IMHO weird stuff like Crestron or AMX (which mainly are a proprietary Homeautomation-system)

Makki

Hi,

thanks for response... I own one Squeezebox, so I know it pretty well, I've searched about russound and it seems like common choice for multizone audio that can be controlled over rs232 (and probably LAN too).

What I don't know quite well, is how to efficiently integrate those with EIB. Probably there are EIB modules with rs232 output or yet better PC that can connect to EIB and also control amps over rs232 at the same time...

I have LMCE running at home that does this (and I used Misterhouse some time ago), but I'm also after any other options, since LMCE is not in stable release yet and it seems it will not be any time soon... Any other open source or cheap SW that could integrate EIB, whole house audio (either squeezeboxes or russound) and give some pleasant GUI for end user control ?

Also any setup examples of whole house audio with russound or squeezeboxes will be of great help....

Thanks in advance,

regards,

Bulek.

[makki]

Now, you need something to stick the things together. Using vdr as DVB-S player and multiple mpd as players.. RF-remotes & KNX switches to control..
I did this with the Gira Homeserver but I honestly wouldn't do again as the (time) effort is nearly the same as to program it yourself somehow with LMCE (which I don't know) or any other Box/SW.. Also take a look on linknx
I guess there is really no cheap and definitely no "Plug&Play-Solution" for a decent MRS out there..
but don't read this pessemistic: once up&running it's a great thing and I'm very happy with my current solution, although it was a hard way to get here.

Makki