Any feedback on Nirvis Slink-E

[Pam]

Hi,

I'm considering getting a Nirvis Slink-E for controlling my CD players and
other home stuff. Does anyone have any feedback on the Slink-E (positive or
negative)?

Thanks,
Pam

[Brent DeShazer]

I bought one from smarthome.com, and would say I am generally pleased with
the unit. I am using it in conjunction with Misterhouse primarily for
single-room IR control. I like the open attitude the company has in regards
to programming their product. Full programming interfaces available,
examples, etc.

Brent

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[Brian Karas]

I have a Slink-E coupled to a CDPCX450 400 disc jukebox. The Slink-E
is probably the best $250 or so I ever spent.

I loaded up my new jukebox with about 300 discs, connected the
Slink-E, and told it to auto-discover the discs. It went thru each
slot, got the CD's ID#, connected to the CDDB server, downloaded all
the Title/Track info, etc. Then, with 1 click I had it upload all the
text to the player itself (the CX450 has a video out feature, so you
can see what is playing on a TV, I modulated this through the
house...). After all that, I highlighted all the discs and then had
it download the cover art. It found cover art for 90% of my discs,
and had about a 90% success rate in finding the proper art.

That was just in the first day... Since then it's made the jukebox
much easier to use. I have the Slink-E software loaded on my kitchen
PC.

You can see a pic of the kitchen PC here:
http://www.karas.net/ha

The A/V stack on that page is slightly out of date. The jukebox now
lives where all the CD's are stacked up...

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[Barry Thomas]

I have an Slink-E controlled by HomeSeer (it is one of the IR options
support by Keware). I have a Sony 200 CD player and a 4 zone whoe-house
audio system. Nirvis is adding a Xantech interface in March, so it will be
even better for me. Even my wife (who has been subjected to my home
automation toys for years and refers to the system as Demon Seed) was
impressed when I told HomeSeer to "Play some Mozart" and it happened.
HomeSeer fires up the audio equipment, starts CDJ (the jukebox software),
loads the Mozart playlist. We love it.

Barry

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[Jim Fouch]

I bought a Slink-e about 2 years ago I think - it was before the unit even
came in a case -- and I love it.

I think a Sony megachanger is a half finished product without a Sink-e.

Cheers, Jim.

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"Barry Thomas" <tho...@hsonline.net> wrote in message
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> I have an Slink-E controlled by HomeSeer (it is one of the IR options
> support by Keware). I have a Sony 200 CD player and a 4 zone whoe-house
> audio system.

4 zone whoe-house...where you livin'? Nevada?

[Dan Butterfield]

"Pam" <hms...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I personally think a Slink-e is a must-have if you have a Sony CD jukebox (I
have two). Its digital IO and IR capabilities are not quite as fleshed out
as the Sony device control features, but they are great icing on the cake
and will at least give you the ability to control features of the non-Sony
AV components in your setup. If your primary desire is an IR and IO
interface for generic automation, something like an Ocelot (with appropriate
add-on modules) might do more (such as run in standalone mode w/o a PC), and
cost more, but for hardwired control of Sony jukeboxes, Slink-e can't be
beat!

- Dan Butterfield (d...@butterfields.net)

[Craig Williamson]

Dan Butterfield wrote:

Will it work to do a random playback from the Slink-E? I have alwys wondered
how those types of devices would do random playback. I usually listen to my CDs
that way, random disk, random track.

Craig

[Dan Butterfield]

"Craig Williamson" <cr...@conterra.com> wrote in message
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> Will it work to do a random playback from the Slink-E? I have alwys
wondered
> how those types of devices would do random playback. I usually listen to
my CDs
> that way, random disk, random track.

Any playlist in CDJ (a CD/MP3 library program you can download for free at
www.nirvis.com that works with the Slink-e to give you full control of Sony
jukeboxes) can be randomized for random playback. Even better, you can have
CDJ randomize the playlist, then force alternating order on it to alternate
between CD players, so there is no delay between tracks during playback
(since CDJ will queue up the next song on the unused CD player while the
other one is playing). In fact, it will even overlap-fade songs (one fades
out while the other fades in).

- Dan Butterfield (d...@butterfields.net)

[L. M. Rappaport]

Dan,

The Slink-E folks make frequent references to the CDDJ internet
database - now GraceNote. Visiting that site reveals a bunch of
categories, but no classical. Outside of the Schwann database, are
there any compatible databases available for Slink-E that list
classical and opera?

Thanks,

Larry
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