Control4 has teamed with Electronic House to present the “What Do You Want to Control?” sweepstakes with a home control prize package for the winning entry.

EH.  You have a chance to win a control bundle from control4, click on the link below to read the rest of this story.

via Home Control: Win a $5,000 Prize Package from Control4, by Arlen Schweiger – Electronic House Product News.

Very cool article by Steven Castle of Electronic House, explaining the features and their importance when choosing a universal remote control.  Enjoy.

One of the most important decisions you can make when buying a whole-house music system, home control system, or home theater system is choosing the remote control. It’s the thing you use to communicate with all that equipment. And it better work…

via Home Theater: Anatomy of 6 Remote Controls, by Steven Castle – Electronic House Info and Answers.

Simple yet Powerful Plug-and-Play Controller for the ZR-6 MultiZone Receiver

Niles Audio Corporation, The First Name in Custom Installation, is now shipping the TS-Pro wall-mount color touchscreen: an advanced, customizable control solution for Niles’ award-winning ZR-6 MultiZone Receiver. The easy-to-use TS-Pro features a high-contrast, 3.5” color touchscreen with a crisp, easy-to-read graphical user interface (GUI) and convenient hard keys that control frequently used functions such as volume and power on/off.

Easily configured without a laptop computer, the system integrator simply connects the TS-Pro to the ZR-6 and the system programming is automatically loaded. Also, system changes made in one TS-Pro are automatically populated to all other TS-Pros in the system.

“The TS-Pro is both simple to install and easy to use, delivering a perfect blend of functionality and flexibility in the form of an elegant, color touchscreen control,” said Frank Sterns, president of Niles Audio. “We designed the TS-Pro to be a true plug-and-play upgrade solution for Niles ZR-6 MultiZone System users that desire a richer, more contemporary control interface,” Sterns added.

The TS-Pro is available now for a MSRP of $799.95.

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Niles Audio Corporation, The First Name in Custom Installation ®, has announced that the company is now shipping the award-winning ZR-6 MultiZone Receiver and related keypad interfaces.

The ZR-6 is a six-source, six-zone whole-house audio receiver outfitted with features that today’s customers desire including One-Touch to Entertainment TM automation, plug-and-play iPod ® integration and a high-quality built-in AM/FM tuner. The ZR-6 offers and impressive array of easy-to-use control solutions, from a simple single-gang keypad to an advanced color touchscreen controller. For convenient and simplified control of menu-based devices, the ZR-6 distributes and displays metadata from the iPod as well as favorites and “now playing” information for the built-in AM/FM tuner. The unique weather-resistant construction of Niles keypads offers new installation opportunities by enabling placement in “wet” locations such showers and spas or outdoors on patios.

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Installing outdoor speakers on your deck or backyard is a great way to improve your outdoor fun.  There are plenty of varieties, from just a single pair of speakers and an audio receiver, to more sophisticated whole house distribution.  Although having distributed audio system in a house is an awesome experience for music lovers, there are much more “budget-friendly” options for outdoor music listening.  Most people don’t realize that in a lot of cases all they have to do is to have a pair of speaker wires run to their existing audio/video setup to be able to start enjoying their favorite audio tracks outside.

Here are a few pictures of our recent outdoor audio installations:

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