Having put the 4 port serial card back into boron, the onboard port now works again, so I’ll probably continue with developing the software. The expansion card still doesn’t work though, so I’ve ordered a cheap 2-port card from eBay in the hope that a different card will work. Before reinstalling the card I upgraded [...]
Today I started development of the software to control the whole-house audio system. It’s written in C# and based on the MiniHttpd project – a small but powerful implementation of a web server in C#. However, when it came to testing the first bits of code, I’ve envountered a problem. A while ago I bought [...]
I have just successfuly tested transmission of near-line-level audio over the cat5 cables I’ve recently finished installing. The amplifiers and matrix switcher have been installed for a while, but until now I’ve not performed any tests of sending audio from one part of the house to the matrix switcher, through the appropriate amplifier and out [...]
Today I added the final 4 network points – there are now a total of 24 around the house. The wiring project started about 14 months ago, with the plan to have at least 2 network points in all rooms except the bathroom. The final distribution has ended up as: Living room: 6 Dining room: [...]