Archive for October, 2009
Control4… On a boat
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 April 2010 12:22 Written by Cody Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:54
Why waste your summer days indoors when you can take your automated lifestyle to the water?
That’s exactly what Control4 asked when thinking of bringing it’s product line to marine applications. Hit the read link for full details.
Control4’s marine applications let you do things like:
* Remotely controlling lights and heating or air conditioning to turn on shortly before arrival, ensuring everything on the vessel is set to preference yet reducing energy consumption
* Automating exterior running lights to allow the crew to move around safely
* Adjusting the thermostat to ensure appropriate interior cabin temperatures
* Providing GPS and navigation data through the television or touch screens so owners and onboard guests know the current location of the vessel and anticipated arrival
* Triggering lights to automatically turn on, off or dim, based on detected light levels or specific times of the day
* Opening and closing blinds, according to when the sun sets or the skies become cloudy to allow for optimum levels of natural light
* Centralizing audio and video collections from multiple sources and allowing selection of music or movies by cover art from a single library from any room on the vessel
Scope out the info on their website, and contact your local dealer for more information.
http://www.control4.com/marine/
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Sony’s 400 Disc BD Changer RS-232 driver now available
Last Updated on Tuesday, 27 July 2010 07:32 Written by Cody Thursday, 22 October 2009 11:08
If you’ve got a Blu-ray fever, and the only prescription is Sony’s 400 disc mega-changer – you’re now in luck. Control4 has just announced availability of the RS-232 driver for this disc spinner.
Sony BDP-CX7000ES - now with Control4 integration
Requiring 1.7.3.68 or higher, you now get:
* Full transport controls, including discrete on/off and all menu, disc and track controls
* SR-250 and SR-150 support for all essential remote functionality
* Disc scanning and meta-data retrieval for Blu-ray discs, DVDs, and CDs
* Auto-scanning mode – changer automatically scans new discs as they are added
Ask your dealer for details. Us, well we’re still looking for 400 Blu-ray movies worth spending $35 for.
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Under New Management
Last Updated on Sunday, 28 March 2010 11:56 Written by Cody Wednesday, 21 October 2009 11:55
Hello everyone,
My name is Cody and I’m the Technical Director for The SOHO Shop, LLC. You may know me from theC4forums.com website as “thecodeman”. This website was started as a personal joint venture between myself and a good friend of mine, and some positive things have happened for both of us that prompted us to make this transition. My friend is still a contributer to the site, but I’ve taken over the administrative responsibilites under the umbrella of The SOHO Shop, LLC. We want the users to understand that this blog will operate under the same principles of transparency that the C4forums.com site is run – no advertising, no product placements, no gimmicks – just useful information that dealers and end-users alike will enjoy. The scope of this blog will remain focused to the “Control4 Universe”, meaning anything that is official Control4 gear, as well as any third party equipment related to it. We will not be discussing any ComposerPro or dealer-only features, nor methods of sharing or pirating dealer-only software. I hope that this blog will continue to be a resource that you use in order to make the most out of your Control4 system.
Regards,
Cody
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