[slinkelist] Is there any chance of Firecracker support?

[Ken Geoffrion]

I had to add an additional serial card to my desktop system, since I needed 
three serial ports (slinke, cm11a, and a modem for callerid displays).  
Using the passthrough on the Firecracker would have been an obvious 
advantage!

I also had to buy an additional ActiveHome (for another cm11a) so I could 
run ActiveHome on one computer, and let CDJ software communicate with the 
cm11a on the other.

----Original Message Follows----
From: "Brian L Hunt" <bhunt01@ibm.net>
To: "David Aue" <aue@nirvis.com>,"Jay Pfaffman" <pfaffman@relax.com>
CC: <cboles@nirvis.com>,<slinkelist@nirvis.com>
Subject: RE: [slinkelist] Is there any chance of Firecracker support?
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2000 10:48:56 -0800

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
 > >+1-615-343-1720 (office)               +1-615-460-9299 (home)
 > >http://relax.ltc.vanderbilt.edu/~pfaffman/

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