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HAI Media Center, Home Server Deliver Automation, Surveillance, Multiroom Music
With help from Autonomic, HAI's new Media Center and Windows Home Server integrate seamlessly with HAI automation software and new WiFi tablets.
HAI’s new OmniTouch WiFi tablets get full access to and control of Media Center content, thanks to software from Autonomic.
HAI Music Gateway: 3 Audio Streams
Autonomic is also helping HAI with a new "Music Gateway" based on Windows Home Server.
HAI already offers WebLink 3 (WL3) automation software for Home Server. HAI now is developing its own Home Server incorporating Autonomic's Media Control Server multiroom audio solution (I love this stuff).
The HAI Music Gateway has a built-in 5.1 sound card which, thanks to Autonomic, can deliver three music streams to three zones simultaneously (including protected iTunes content).
The unit ships with HAI's WL3 software, enabling remote access to the HAI system from any Web browser, including an iPhone.
Since HAI has added DVR functionality to WL3, the Music Gateway can record surveillance video from IP cameras. It transcodes the video so for viewing even on itty bitty screens.
Even though the product is a full-fledged Windows Home Server, HAI is keeping it simple, promoting it simply as a music (and CCTV) gateway.
The gateway runs very cool, says McLellan, so it can be installed in a closed structured wiring cabinet.
The Music Gateway, with 160 GB of storage, is expected to retail for less than $1,800.
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
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