Effort required to show Meta Data from a Third Party Product

[hehateme]

I am trying to determine the effort it will take to be able to show meta data from a third party product.

I am looking at Integra Tun-3.7 or Onkyo T-4555 HD Radio receivers. Both of them have RS232 interfaces.

How hard is this task?

Can it even be done?

How much programming will a dealer need to do to accomplish this?

If it is too expensive or hard I will just live with AM/FM.

[slemay]

Honestly... if you found a dealer that sold a lot of those and was a Control4 dealer - then it would be worth their time (and cost) to write the driver in LUA and use it on other jobs. For a one time install - it would be cheaper for you to buy the Control4 Tuner w/XM card than it would be to program that driver. FYI.

[hehateme]

This is what I was thinking. I will go with Control 4 V2 Tuner.

I will probably add Sangean HDT-1X HD Radio Component Tuner. I will not try to get the meta data.

I was told that it will be easy to add another tuner and allow me to change the stations but getting meta data is much harder.

Thanks Shawn.

[slemay]

Exactly! Each companies way to "deliver" that metadata is different - thus the driver has to be changed for each one... pain in the butt. You never know though - Control4 may come out with an HD Tuner addin for the v2 tuner... (no I don't know anything, nor do I have any insight - I'm just speculating - there is an expansion port on the back of the v2 tuner - and right now that only supports XM addin card - but nothing to say they couldn't come out with an HD tuner addin card). I'm sure hoping they do - Rhapsody is nice - but alot of our "older" customers just don't want it or to deal with it - they like their AM/FM radio - and LOVE HD radio (ok - they may be clueless about the technology - they just know it sounds much better and they like that).