club411 Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have a question.I have a Windows 7 Media center setup with hundreds of my movies. How can I/does that integrate into C4 so I have the same functionality?Is it treated just like another source? Confused Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayace Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 New to this myself but I don't believe Windows Media Center will interface with C4. If you want to use media off your PC you will need to install XBMC for PC and the driver that will allow XMBC to interface with C4. Your dealer should be able to set you up with the driver. XMBC can be downloaded for free and it is a very slick interface. This is the route I'm going my with my C4 system that will be installed over the next few weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Yes, WMC is only IR control at this time. XBMC gives the best functionality as mentioned by Jayace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
club411 Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 Yes, WMC is only IR control at this time. XBMC gives the best functionality as mentioned by Jayace.I am really confused on all of this as I have heard different things. Can I just plug in my drives to the hc300 and pull the movie media straight from that without having any sort of HTPC?I just want the ability to have the DVD cover info display? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Yes' date=' WMC is only IR control at this time. XBMC gives the best functionality as mentioned by Jayace.[/quote']I am really confused on all of this as I have heard different things. Can I just plug in my drives to the hc300 and pull the movie media straight from that without having any sort of HTPC?No, Control4's controllers do not have the ability to play back any video. You have to use a third party box, or Control4's upcoming media player.I just want the ability to have the DVD cover info display?Then you need to have your movies stored on a network drive somewhere, and play them back using a Netgear 9150, machine running XBMC, or Zatabit. In the future you can use Control4's media player or AppleTV when the driver launches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xc420 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 As far as Windows Media Center integration, there is a free app that works with windows 7 here: http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx that will make WMC capable of being controlled through TCP/IP. There is even a http server that will allow two-way communication. WMC users just need a driver created for this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 As far as Windows Media Center integration, there is a free app that works with windows 7 here: http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx that will make WMC capable of being controlled through TCP/IP. There is even a http server that will allow two-way communication. WMC users just need a driver created for this.Interesting. Who's up for creating a driver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 As far as Windows Media Center integration' date=' there is a free app that works with windows 7 here: [url']http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx that will make WMC capable of being controlled through TCP/IP. There is even a http server that will allow two-way communication. WMC users just need a driver created for this.Interesting. Who's up for creating a driver?The trick would be getting metadata information. I could care less if I could control something, but if you tell me I can browse TV channels or recordings on windows media center through Control4... sold!Hmm................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 As far as Windows Media Center integration' date=' there is a free app that works with windows 7 here: [url']http://vmccontroller.codeplex.com/Thread/List.aspx that will make WMC capable of being controlled through TCP/IP. There is even a http server that will allow two-way communication. WMC users just need a driver created for this.Interesting. Who's up for creating a driver?The trick would be getting metadata information. I could care less if I could control something, but if you tell me I can browse TV channels or recordings on windows media center through Control4... sold!Hmm................Well, this has me thinking. My new Windows 7 PC has an HDMI out that isn't currently in use, and I could connect that to my system using JAP, then it would provide me with another high def media player to support and supplement my two EVA9150's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted November 17, 2009 Share Posted November 17, 2009 Interesting. Who's up for creating a driver?The trick would be getting metadata information. I could care less if I could control something' date=' but if you tell me I can browse TV channels or recordings on windows media center through Control4... sold!Hmm................[/quote']Well, this has me thinking. My new Windows 7 PC has an HDMI out that isn't currently in use, and I could connect that to my system using JAP, then it would provide me with another high def media player to support and supplement my two EVA9150's.I'm already ahead of you. Have something coming to the lab next week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Ideas like this are why C4 needs an open API. There could be SO much cool stuff written by the user community. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhadams Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 No one's stopping you from writing a driver Zaphod. I would welcome it. I have a Dell Zino HD on the way and I'll be controlling it IR until someone catches the vision and writes a driver. For me I'm a C and LabView programmer, but I haven't tried to dive in to Control4's Driver Works stuff. I may get impatient myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 It utilizes the LUA language. I have thought about trying to figure it out, but I am no programmer. I know in JAVA to screw things up, and that's about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhadams Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 ILoveC4, it says you're in Utah... are you affiliated with a local dealer? Just wondering... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ILoveC4 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 ILoveC4, it says you're in Utah... are you affiliated with a local dealer? Just wondering...Define "affiliated"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphod Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 No one's stopping you from writing a driver Zaphod. I would welcome it. I have a Dell Zino HD on the way and I'll be controlling it IR until someone catches the vision and writes a driver. For me I'm a C and LabView programmer, but I haven't tried to dive in to Control4's Driver Works stuff. I may get impatient myself.How does one go about getting the info - can I download a C4 SDK somewhere? I would love to be able to pass information back and forth between my HC-300 and my PCs. Certianly MCE integration would be part of what I would like to see but there would be all sorts of other info. I have switched from Windows Media Center to SageTV so I would really like to integrate my C4 with Sage.It might be nice to have my system wake me up if the Japanese stock market falls by more than 5% during the night, for example.Other exmpales of what I would like to do?- I have a CardAccess device in my wine storage cabinet that records temperature. It would be nice to be able to log the temp on an hourly basis to a text file. - Have some of your 6 button LEDs flash red if there is a severe weather warning in effect.- Have C4 notifications sent to your PC, other than the basic email that is pretty expensive since it forces you to subscribe to 4sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecodeman Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 It might be nice to have my system wake me up if the Japanese stock market falls by more than 5% during the night, for example.There is a stock ticker driver, though I'm not sure it's event programming capabilites. This might be better available in 2.0 - not sure.Have C4 notifications sent to your PC, other than the basic email that is pretty expensive since it forces you to subscribe to 4sight.Your dealer can setup the twitter driver. Although limited to 10 notifications, it requires no subsciption service that I'm aware of. Again, with 2.0, there's no telling what we might see since it will be running flash (and flash runs on computers too). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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