HA/Media Interface-Control

[wordgasm]

I posted this in the remotes section of the forum, but who also like some inpt from the HA HouseBot side of things.

Sorry for the long post, The answer should be short I'd think!

Need Help

Dont know what/where to start which, Too many options!
Got everything at Once!

Someday Touchscreens, But I want a "regular" remote to start and have a PDA for software remote for wholehouse/all over house control for now.

Hardware Im going to control

A/V rcvr (JVC, no serial)
Digital cable box (or 2, serial not activated)
Mits HDTV (probably using 4/5 inputs, have discreet codes)
Not important but could be part of the mix (X-Box/stb DVD)

HTPC Hardware

Kaman HT 400 case/pc with VFD (On-Off with Imon IR remote)
ASUS 8 channel on-board sound
ATI AIW 9800 Pro (not using ATI software, but could)
myHD 120
Audigy NZ (USB sound, if required, or new PCI sond card, if required)
TV Tuner(s) (analog) Wintv 250/350 TV Card (depends on Meedio TV,
waiting to purchase)
EPG (Meedio TV?)

Media/HA Server Hardware

Control over network from HTPC thru HouseBot and PDA Soft Remote

(Modem, x-10 interface, HA interfaces as needed, PCI cameras card, Soundcard for zones (over a-bus))

Software to Control

Meedio Essentials
Meedio HouseBot
TheaterTek
myHD TV/DVDware
Samsung 2x16 VFD
Meedio TV (or other TV solution)
XMLobby (mainlobby/mainlobby server, till Meedio XM plug-in)
JRiver Media Center (thru Meedio Plug-in + music zones thru PDA soft
remote)
DScaler/ffdShow/Etc
Windows XP Misc.

Interfaces/Remotes I HAVE

USB-UIRT
ATI Remote Wonder (Plug-ins for ATI/Meedio/TheaterTek and Jriver
(I think on JRiver)
Imon Remote (Programable)
myHD Remote
TV Tuner Remote (when get)
Casio E-125 PDA
Have all stb original remotes

Interfaces/Remotes I'm CONSIDERING

GC-100 Network IR/Serial/IP interface
Firefly
Harmony 688 (?) DVR one

So ................

Which remote? Or a new, different one?
Which hardware interface/IR-RF interface?
Which "Automation Software/Macros ....
HouseBot/Girder/Other/RemoteWare/USB-UIRT plug-in ....
One/Combo/All?

I can figure it all out, once I have a starting direction, best option!

PLEASE HELP!

Thanks SOOO Much

Jeff

Thanks



Jeff

[teekster]

I'm with wordgasm. Meedio Essentials is pretty simple to use out of the box. I bought Meedio Housebot thinking that I could control Essentials through PDAs, etc., but there is really no documentation to instruct a newbie like myself to do this. Is anyone planning on putting together a step by step guide on how to use this software?

[acheslow]

We have a plugin for Meedio HouseBot that provides two-way control between it and Meedio Essentials but it hasn't been released yet. We need to rewrite some of the internals and test it more but in my personal tests it works great. It is pretty much plug-and-play.