[slinkelist] Is there any chance of Firecracker support?

[Brian L Hunt]

David, the benefit of Firecracker support is that the device is a
passthrough device. The CM11a has no passthrough ports. Unless I am missing
the obvious this means that the user needs two serial ports (and potentially
a third for a modem to do the look-ups on CDDB) when using a CM11a plus
slink-e. Adding to the problem is the use of notebooks as a common machine
for slink-e control. Notebooks typically only have one physical serial port
so its CM11a or slink-e.

Perhaps other users of CM11a might comment on how they are dealing with the
serial port requirements?

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com [mailto:slinkelist-admin@nirvis.com]On
> Behalf Of David Aue
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 1:06 PM
> To: Jay Pfaffman
> Cc: cboles@nirvis.com; slinkelist@nirvis.com
> Subject: Re: [slinkelist] Is there any chance of Firecracker support?
>
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> We've considered firecracker support but it is way down on along list of
> things and since we have CM11a it's not much of a priority.  In
> other words
> it might happen but I wouldn't hold my breath.
>
> David Aue
> Nirvis Systems
>
> At 01:40 PM 1/19/00 , Jay Pfaffman wrote:
> >I, like several on the list, bought a Firecracker package because it
> >was really cheap.  Now I've bought a bit more X11 stuff & of course
> >want Slinke/CDJ to control it all.  Colby, is there any chance you'll
> >add support for the firecracker any time soon (I have no idea what's
> >involved & don't know if it's 2 hours or 200) or should I buy a CM11a?
> >
> >I'm checking x10.com's site & don't see cm11a at first glance.  It's
> >there somewhere, right?
> >
> >(Completely off topic: After a year of having two 200 cd changers, I
> >had to buy a new one.  For the first time I read the manual to
> >discover why I've never been able to get mega-control to work--set the
> >ID of the changer to be controlled to 3.  Now I can see how it
> >interferes with CDJ's work. Alas, my CDJ computer died & I have to
> >wait for its repair.)
> >
> >--
> >Jay Pfaffman                           pfaffman@relax.com
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> >
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