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SpeakerCraft Launches iPhone Interface for MODE Multiroom A/V

“I hate to say it, but this is the beginning of the end for keypads,” says SpeakerCraft president Jeremy Burkhardt.
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SpeakerCraft was one of the first companies way back when to introduce a multiroom audio system that incorporated metadata from an iPod.

Now the company is taking its ties to Apple one step further with an iPhone interface for the MODE distributed-audio system. The interface is generated through an embedded Web server residing inside SpeakerCraft’s ERS 1.0 Ethernet-to-serial adapter. Since the interface is accessed through the iPhone’s Safari browser, there’s no software to install on the phone (or iTouch).

The ERS also dishes up an interface for standard PC/Mac Web browsers, allowing users to control the system from any iPhone/iTouch on the network.

Multiple interface devices can be used simultaneously to control different zones of the house.

“I hate to say it, but this is the beginning of the end for keypads,” says SpeakerCraft president Jeremy Burkhardt. “Soon any keypad that isn’t emulated on a device like the iPhone will be obsolete.”

The ERS 1.0 with the embedded software has an MSRP of $1,000.

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5 Comments

Posted by Lee Distad  on  04/08  at  11:05 AM

That is so cool!

Posted by duh  on  04/09  at  08:38 AM

“I’m sorry grandma, can I call you back?  I need to turn the volume down and I don’t have an dang keypads!”

Posted by installer  on  04/09  at  09:19 AM

Does Speakercraft make an in-wall bracket for the iPhone?

Posted by to:duh  on  04/11  at  11:29 AM

you can be on the phone and use wifi at the same time on the iphone..duh

Posted by Don Glover  on  04/11  at  11:52 PM

This is such and opportunity to sell more to my existing clients.  Wow what a cool idea.  Kepypads in the house iphone on the go and when clients are home they play with mucsic.  With construction down i have call backs.

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