[slinkelist] Xantech - slinke connecting ? and X10 beginner help

[AndyStein@aol.com]

    Would the circuit you are considering building to address the first issue 
resolve the problem I am having getting CDJ to control slave players when the 
masters are set to mode 2? I haven't found anyone to build the circuit you 
had posted on your Web site, so if the circuit you are considering would make 
my set-up work, it would help me. (To recap, I had a 90ES controlling a slave 
and a 270 controlling a slave.  I have just bought another 270, which will 
sit alone until it fills up, an event I hope rests in the distant future.  I 
won't have trouble adding the new 270 to my Slink-e, will I?)


    Andrew


In a message dated 12/22/99 7:55:22 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
cboles@nirvis.com writes:

<< Subj:     RE: [slinkelist] Xantech - slinke connecting ? and X10 beginner 
help
 Date:  12/22/99 7:55:22 PM Pacific Standard Time
 From:  cboles@nirvis.com (Colby Boles)
 Sender:    slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com
 To:    vann.m.knight@boeing.com (Knight, Vann M), slinkelist@nirvis.com
 
 Hi Vann-
 
 1) I have designed just such a circuit. You can find the schematics for it
 at
 
 http://www.nirvis.com/xantech.htm
 
 depending on the number of people interested, I may build such a device to
 adapt to Xantech. Electronics are required because the Xantech system
 contains the IR carrier whereas the slink-e IR inputs do not.
 
 2) The X10 device commands are described in the help under
 
 The SlinkX ActiveX control -> CM11a X10 Interface
 
 For example, if you loaded the cm11a.cde device in CDJ and called it "x10",
 you could issue the following command to turn on a light at address A1:
 
 x10:on[a1]
 
 likewise, you could create a macro in your map file where sending command to
 A2 from an X10 keypad starts / stops your playlist:
 
 x10:on[a2] {cdj:playlist_play}
 x10:off[a2] {cdj:playlist_stop}
 
 Colby
 
 
 
 -----Original Message-----
 From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
 Behalf Of Knight, Vann M
 Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 6:02 AM
 To: slinkelist@nirvis.com
 Subject: [slinkelist] Xantech - slinke connecting ? and X10 beginner
 help
 
 
 Folks,
 
 I've had my slink-e for about 6 months now and love it. I have my audio gear
 tucked away in my basement. I have a Xantech multiple channel pre-amp and
 amps, I have Xantech IR receivers in each room (and emitters in the basement
 to route IR signals to the Xantech and other audio devices). Up to now I
 have been using the slink-e just to control my Sony 300 CD juke box with the
 very nice CDJ software. I use a Pronto remote to control the rest of my
 system including the Sony CD jukebox (when I'm not using the CDJ to play a
 play-list). I've noticed that since I don't have a feed from the IR bus to
 slink-e that when I am controlling the Sony jukebox with CDJ, my IR commands
 to the Sony with a remote don't always "take".
 
 My question(s):
 
 1) I think I should be able to feed the IR signal (collected and routed by
 my Xantech system) to the slink-e (and thus have some control over the CDJ
 software). How do I bridge the IR signal from my Xantech IR bus to my
 slink-e? I considered simply taping IR emitter to IR receiver, but there
 must be a better way.
 
 2) I recently purchased some X-10 "stuff" including the CM11a... How do I
 set up control of X-10 devices thru the slink-e? I've browsed the help (so
 please no RTFM flames) and it looks like there is support in the slink-e
 device and slink-e server to route signals to the X-10 devices but how does
 one originate a signal to send to an X-10 device? I've added the CM11a
 device file, and slink-e server can "see" the CM11a. But is there a macro
 capability in either the CDJ or slink-e server software? What I've read up
 to now in the help indicates to me that there is an ActiveX open interface
 implemented, but I've yet found an application which uses this interface...
 am I way out in left field here ?
 
 thanks for any help,
 
 Vann
 
 - Vann Knight
 - vann.m.knight@boeing.com
 - (314) 234-9881 voice
 - (314) 233-5094 fax
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 - "Nous sommes du soleil"
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