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Never heard of it. It appears to be a 4 zone music server with a touchscreen interface. Uses RS-232 as the control which would allow intergration with a whole house system. The integrated system concept is cool but also might limit expansion. A server is usually only a source with a multi-room system & not it's main hub.

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I use the Slim Server, and am pretty happy with it. It an also be integrated with most other systems. But the interface on that looks quite a bit better.
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I spoke to my brother who does a lot of home automation stuff (with Crestron). He didn't know much about them specifically, but sent over a few alternatives:

These guys have been doing it for a long time:
http://www.request.com/

These guys do it but for video:
http://www.kaleidescape.com/
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Kaleidescape is doing very well at the moment. Spendy but very good.

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All cool stuff, but is there something out there that doesn't cost 3X as much as the server that runs this BBS? Seems like a huge investment. Anything open source? That would be cool...

-Wayne
I agree, I sell industrial panel PC's and if the software were available it would be pretty cheap/easy to do a PC with a touch screen mounted in the wall.

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