Greetings,
There's no question or issue here, I just thought I'd share an off-the-wall use of Homeseer.
Before I built my new house we used to play paintball on the vacant land. (we're all old 40+ year guys, but its still fun). I used up most of the playing area with my house, but I still had about an acre or so with trees and hills undisturbed by the construction.
So last month we started playing again on the acre area, and I decided to use HS to augment the game. I now have HS stating when the game should start, a timer for when it ends, and even team scoring.
I wired HS audio to my garage where I have an amp and large PA speakers that I can set outside.
I trained MS voice recognition to understand commands from a FRS walkie-talkie (that took a while).
I placed the other FRS radio near the HS PC microphone and speakers in Voice Activated mode so the FRS radio could autmatically transmit back any HS voice responses.
So, by talking into the FRS radio, I could tell HS to start the next game in X minutes (giving us time to walk out onto the field), and HS could announce a game countdown through the PA speakers. ("10 minutes remaining")
I also connected DS10A sensors to the flag poles (paintball is all about 'capture the flag') so that when a flag was pulled the PA system would announce that the flag was taken (like Unreal Tournament - for the younger geeks). HS: "The Red Team has the Flag".
I just thought I'd throw that out as an example of Homeseer's ability to do ANYTHING if you put your mind to it.
Steve C.
There's no question or issue here, I just thought I'd share an off-the-wall use of Homeseer.
Before I built my new house we used to play paintball on the vacant land. (we're all old 40+ year guys, but its still fun). I used up most of the playing area with my house, but I still had about an acre or so with trees and hills undisturbed by the construction.
So last month we started playing again on the acre area, and I decided to use HS to augment the game. I now have HS stating when the game should start, a timer for when it ends, and even team scoring.
I wired HS audio to my garage where I have an amp and large PA speakers that I can set outside.
I trained MS voice recognition to understand commands from a FRS walkie-talkie (that took a while).
I placed the other FRS radio near the HS PC microphone and speakers in Voice Activated mode so the FRS radio could autmatically transmit back any HS voice responses.
So, by talking into the FRS radio, I could tell HS to start the next game in X minutes (giving us time to walk out onto the field), and HS could announce a game countdown through the PA speakers. ("10 minutes remaining")
I also connected DS10A sensors to the flag poles (paintball is all about 'capture the flag') so that when a flag was pulled the PA system would announce that the flag was taken (like Unreal Tournament - for the younger geeks). HS: "The Red Team has the Flag".
I just thought I'd throw that out as an example of Homeseer's ability to do ANYTHING if you put your mind to it.
Steve C.
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