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Home Cinema And Multi Room Systems Solutions

There are now so many affordable audio visual solutions available for the home, such as home cinema, audio and video multi room systems, lighting control systems and even intelligent home automation systems that allow you to control all the technology in your home from a wireless touch-screen display.

Here is a quick overview of audio visual solutions for the home:
* Home cinema installation
* Home cinema audio
* Multi room systems
* Home automation
* Intelligent house
* Lighting control systems
* Home theatre speakers
* Audio ceiling speakers
* Bathroom speakers

Multi room allows you to create a flexible and discrete system designed around your home so that different rooms can independently or simultaneously access sources such as sky television, cd players, dvd players, mp3s stored on an ipod or a computer, radio tuners and even CCTV. The beauty of this integration means that you could pause a film in one room and continue to watch it in another, you could distribute the same music to all rooms during a party, you can access the pictures from your CCTV system from any TV in the house, or you can listen to a favourite album in the kitchen whilst different music plays in the bathroom. There are so many possibilities and all this without juggling remote controls as you can control your system either via a wall mounted keypad, a handheld remote, or both.

The home cinema projector market is definitely heating up with growing interest in high definition and larger displays. These days, especially with the onset of luxury city apartment living, the big challenge for manufacturers lies in combining cinematic performance with aesthetic looks.

Where home cinema projectors are being installed in living rooms you should consider having a screen that can be hidden away in the ceiling or you could look to get a nicely designed screen that can be wall mounted. Design is rapidly becoming the most important decision factor when it comes to the screen.

With an internet connection or mobile telephone you can monitor and access your home controls when you are abroad. For example you can adjust your central heating and air conditioning from the comfort of your armchair, or set the perfect temperate before your arrival home. You will also be able to monitor your CCTV, fire and burglar alarm systems or operate lighting, blinds and curtains whilst at home or abroad. Good home automation systems will even allow you to control your plasma screens, projectors, and multi room systems and AV equipment.

When installing a home theatre system lighting is extremely important for the complete finish. Light is one of the most powerful yet often neglected elements of interior design. An average modern home has dozens of lighting sources all with their own controls.

That's an awful lot of switches to remember to turn on and off, and an even larger combination of potential home lighting effects that can be produced even before adding in subtler effects produced by dimmer switches. A well-designed automated lighting system brings together all these sources you can operate every light in your house from one discrete keypad.

But remote lighting control is about more than just turning the lights on and off. A home lighting control system groups together sets of lights so you can change the mood of a room at the touch of a button.



CSC Ltd provide a range of audio visual solutions for the home including home cinema, multi room systems, home automation and intelligent home lighting.


ELECTRONICS HELP PLEASE..Circuit to send voice message over telephone?URGENT?
i'm doing a project on home automation. in the circuit i ve arranged a facility to send a voice message(prerecorded) over a telephone to a mobile number(redialled) output of the circuit is to be connected to the input of a splitter and one from the two connections of splitter output is to be given to a loudspeaker and the other to the telephone(for voice message sending) now i completed the circuit and i dont know how to connect the phone in such a way that it automatically dials(or redials) and sends the prerecorded message. ANY INTERNAL CONNCETIONS TO BE MADE IN THE TELEPHONE? HOW TO CONNECT THE TELEPHONE TO THE CIRCUIT?WHAT SHOULD BE DONE TO THE RECEIVER?

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How do I Implement a MenuItem with Boolean?
I'm trying to allow my menu items to work by allowing a user to press it and then display a message such as 'door locks' etc and keep a progress that the door is locked or unlocked... pic below highlighted in red http://img224.imageshack.us/i/interface.jpg/]Imageshack - interface.jpg however with the check door status I want it to allow it to print the status of each door either using the JOptionpane message dialog or the printscreen command would I be right in using boolean (true/false), if so how would I implement it for every menu item so that it keeps a check on whats open and whats closed (i'm guessing I would need to change a few things in my actionlistener) heres my code so far [CODE]import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.File; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import java.io.IOException; import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform; import javax.swing.JOptionPane; public class Project extends JFrame{ ImageIcon icon; Image image; private JList itemList, copyList; private JButton copy; private JButton remove; private JButton dispatch; private JTextField statusField; JMenuBar menuBar; Container contentPane; JMenu fileMenu; JMenu fileLights; //private lights light; // variable to control the light JScrollPane scrollPane; private String itemNames[] = {"Chocolate £" + 1.99, "Toy £" + 4.99, "Bike £" + 199.99, "Laptop £" + 399.99, "Phone £" + 79.99, "Dog", "TV £" + 299.99, "Microwave £" + 89.99}; // list of items public Project(){ super("Home Automation System"); icon = new ImageIcon("home.jpg"); JPanel panel = new JPanel() { protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) { // Scale image to size of component Dimension d = getSize(); g.drawImage(icon.getImage(), 0, 0, d.width, d.height, null); super.paintComponent(g); } }; Container c = getContentPane();// copy container Container r = getContentPane();// remove container Container d = getContentPane();// disptach container contentPane = getContentPane(); c.setBackground(Color.orange);// background colour is set to orange setLayout(new FlowLayout()); DefaultListModel model = new DefaultListModel(); fileMenu = new JMenu("House Locks");// declares a filemenu named "House Locks" fileLights = new JMenu("Lights"); JMenuItem lockdoor; // menu items for house locks JMenuItem unlockdoor; JMenuItem lockfrontdoor; JMenuItem unlockfrontdoor; JMenuItem lockbackdoor; JMenuItem unlockbackdoor; JMenuItem Alllightson; // menu items for lights JMenuItem Alllightsoff; JMenuItem Bedroomlighton; JMenuItem Bedroomlightoff; JMenuItem Kitchenlighton; JMenuItem Kitchenlightoff; JMenuItem Livingroomlighton; JMenuItem Livingroomlightoff; JMenuItem Doorstatus; JMenuItem Lightstatus; JLabel Price; // variable for price to be displayed menuBar = new JMenuBar(); setJMenuBar(menuBar); setSize(400,400); setVisible(true); lockdoor = new JMenuItem("Lock all doors"); // menu items used lockdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener());// actionlistener added to the menu item unlockdoor = new JMenuItem("Unlock all doors"); unlockdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); lockfrontdoor = new JMenuItem("Lock front door"); lockfrontdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); unlockfrontdoor = new JMenuItem("Unlock front door"); unlockfrontdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); lockbackdoor = new JMenuItem("Lock back door"); lockbackdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); unlockbackdoor = new JMenuItem("Unlock back door"); unlockbackdoor.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); Doorstatus = new JMenuItem("Check Door Status"); Doorstatus.addActionListener(new PopupActionListener()); Alllightson = new JMenuItem("All lights on"); Alllightsoff = new JMenuItem("All lights off"); Bedroomlighton = new JMenuItem("Bedroom light on"); Bedroomlightoff = new JMenuItem("Bedroom light off"); Kitchenlighton = new JMenuItem("Kitchen light on"); Kitchenlightoff = new JMenuItem("Kitchen light off"); Livingroomlighton = new JMenuItem("Living room light on"); Livingroomlightoff = new JMenuItem("Living room light off"); Lightstatus = new J

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