Conductor First Look
Chris Walker at CocoonTech.com has tried the Conductor first hand. Here’s some of this thoughts:
UEI and Sirius brought these out at a dinner party a few weeks ago, and they are really, really cool. Basically, you put the radio receiver part in your media cabinet, and then the remote communicates with it via Z-Wave — and the display on the remote has a 3-line display showing the categories, station, current song, etc.
I never really liked having to turn on my TV to change channels on the Satellite Radio receiver from across the room. Now, I could do it from any room in the house–and the IR connector on the receiver would let me control the volume on my AV receiver too (all via Z-Wave, hopping through my home network).
Plus, the remote is a very nice universal remote–so you can also control your TV, DVR, etc. the old fashioned way.
Pretty nifty. This unit uses the Z-Wave “AV control” and “external screen” (aka “screen metadata”) functionality, and you’ll be able to control it from software applications on your PC as well.
Crutchfield is taking preorders.
Source: CocoonTech.com
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