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    Custom USB Server Alert System

    All the Arduino items I've seen appear needlessly overpriced for this project, from what I've seen at least. The simple act of enabling or disabling power via USB shouldn't cost that much. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong place, or haven't researched Arduino enough, but the cheapest item I've...
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    Custom USB Server Alert System

    Well that's no good. Attempting to modify /sys/bus/usb/devices power via the control file and autosuspend doesn't work against 'dumb' devices. Looks like the motherboard constantly feeds +5VDC across pin 1 regardless and cannot be controlled by the software. I'll need a smart device of some...
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    Custom USB Server Alert System

    That's what I was looking for! Thanks guys; I'll let you know how it turns out. (I'll basically assemble it in steps with the least amount of pieces first to see if it's at acceptable levels and add relays/boosts if required) And maybe one day in the future use a relay to power something like...
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    Custom USB Server Alert System

    Some candidates I've looked over were: http://www.amazon.com/Install-Essentials-513T-Piezo-Siren/dp/B0009SUEX6/ref=pd_rhf_dp_p_t_4 http://www.autotoys.com/x/product.php?productid=1014#detailed And things of that nature. It doesn't have to be big, and shouldn't be complicated. Just loud. Even...
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    Custom USB Server Alert System

    Yeah I didn't know where to put this one...Audio and electrical engineering are my weak subjects. My basic question is audio related, but nothing else about it is so it's going in 'General Hardware': I need an inexpensive device capable of easily emitting a very noticeable 'noise' across a...
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    Custom USB Server Alert System

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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    The Onyko 400 series something'er'other was ordered. The $200 one. Milady said we don't need to upconvert a damn thing and if we do it can go downstairs. I've decided to take an older system that isn't doing anything and make it the project PC to prove I can do everything I want with a PC...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    Maybe it's just because I'm trying to stay under $300 on this receiver, but I've seen issues with both Pioneer's VSX-1022 and all of Onyko's receivers for this year having issues. Some say the firmware fixes it, some say it doesn't help at all. The difference is: If a part of a receiver goes...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    Ah, IR blasters. Suppose that'll work. The TV and projector can both display 1080p, so I guess they'll be alright. Or I suppose I'll be returning a lot of items as I find out what works and what doesn't. (Or ebaying. This seems more like art than science) Guess we'll just relabel stuff like...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    So then: How do I go from the receiver to the TV and projector? Do I have to buy a receiver that supports two HDMI outputs? Or I just have to have it selected before I turn it on? Or just make sure the other is turned off?
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    So basically nothing I'm trying to do here to make the entire home theater system more flexible and easier to upgrade in the future is worth the hassle, and will probably cost more in both time and money, and work worse. I'm getting really close to just ordering one of these...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    My concern with universal remotes (Among the complexity of them getting out of sync) is that the projector is behind all the other equipment and uses IR. But the reoccurring theme here is "Buy another receiver, even if it's only going to switch between two HDMI input devices" :-/
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    Wait...I'm misunderstanding how HDMI works. If I took 4 HDMI devices into a single switch, then took the output and split it 2 ways, one to an audio device (an amplifier for example) and one to a video device (a projector) they'd both get twice as much information as they could process, but...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    Edit: And trying to find an HDMI splitter that splits out the audio into a digital format isn't going so easily...still working on it. *laughs* I was just in my co-workers office lamenting over this decision and we start going back and forth for about half an hour about Google TVs and...
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    Skipping the receiver -- Am I going to regret this?

    Talked with the significant other again and have agreed to setup a retro gaming station downstairs with projector for anything that isn't HDMI or can't easily upscale. Old receiver will move there methinks. That said, since the consoles will only ever be on one at a time...I only need...two...
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