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SpeakerCraft Lets You Use an iPhone or iPod Touch to Control Multiroom A/V System
SpeakerCraft's MODE multiroom audio/video system can be commanded at the touch of a button on your Apple iPhone or iPod touch.
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Control SpeakerCraft’s MODE system on your iPhone
April 08, 2008 | by Arlen Schweiger

If you’re in the mood to listen to the music in your multiroom audio system rather than what’s on your Apple iPhone or iPod touch, don’t drop the device just yet. Now you can use it as a wireless remote.

The touchscreens of the iPhone and iPod touch can control the MODE multiroom A/V system from SpeakerCraft, which operates through the home’s wireless data network.

The setup lets users have more than one iPhone or iPod working in multiple audio zones, according to SpeakerCraft president Jeremy Burkhardt.

The interface has the look and feel of other iPhone functions, and features large virtual buttons within its colorful graphics. Users can control the MODE system through the iPhone or iPod touch, or from any PC on the network.

“I hate to say it, but this is the beginning of the end for keypads,” Burkhardt says. “Soon any keypad that isn’t emulated on a device like the iPhone will be obsolete.”



Arlen Schweiger - Managing editor of Electronic House Magazine
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Comments (3) Most recent displayed first.
Posted by All kit  on  09/14/09  at  02:50 AM

Hi dudees,

SpeakerCraft, America’s original manufacturer of in-wall speakers is pleased to announce the release of a new interface for its award-winning MODE multi-room A/V control system. It allows the Apple iPhone or iPod Touch to be used as a wireless remote with control of all sources and routing accessed on the touch screen through an intuitive GUI….

      Thanks!

AllKit

Posted by B  on  04/26/08  at  09:57 AM

c’mon we got a while before everything moves to something like this, true alot of things will start going that way but it will at least be 10 years before its even close to half of all devices dont have keypads

Posted by Colin  on  04/25/08  at  08:03 PM

“I hate to say it, but this is the beginning of the end for keypads.  Soon any keypad that isn’t emulated on a device like the iPhone will be obsolete.”

and i suppose we’ll get rid of light switches all together since we can emulate their function on an iphone… c’mon…

convergence is only practical to a point.



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