All Articles Tagged Autonomic

Julie Jacobson | 01/19 10:27 AM, 3 Comments

The Mirage Media Server from Autonomic Controls is one of the most full-featured music (and now movie) servers for the custom electronics channel. And now, on top of Pandora, iTunes, Last.fm, TuneIn, SiriusXM and Spotify, Autonomic delivers the Rhapsody music service. What’s the big deal? Doesn’t everyone support Rhapsody? Sorta kinda but not really, says Autonomic CEO Michael de Nigris. While many servers stream Rhapsody pretty well, most of them aren’t certified by Rhapsody itself. That means that if Rhapsody decided to change its streaming ways, the non-certified products could… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 09/19 05:07 AM, 0 Comments

Autonomic Controls, one of the leaders in music management – both local and cloud-based -- has added video to its content aggregation and streaming systems. During CEDIA Expo 2011, Autonomic principal Michael de Nigris demonstrated the company’s MMS-5 media server streaming movies from both local sources and online services. As with the audio capabilities of the server, the video engine aggregates the content for easy search, navigation and control. “We’ve promised this for a long time,” says de Nigris. The first iteration of the Autonomic music/movie server will find any… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 06/22 11:21 AM, 1 Comment

Control4 has announced a couple of new vendor partners this week: Zektor and Autonomic Controls. Popular in the integration community, Zektor will supply matrix switches for Control4 home automation systems. Zektor VP Jeff Haynes says the company’s Clarity Prowler Cat 5 distribution matrix will “provide Control4 integrators more features than they had previously with faster installation, programming time, and the ability to offer both video and audio.” In other news, Control4 finally integrates with media management products from Autonomic, which has been supplying all of Control4 competitors for quite some… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 04/19 06:32 AM, 0 Comments

Autonomic Controls, Inc. says that support for Amazon's new Cloud Drive service will be available in all models of Autonomic Mirage Media Servers (MMS-2 and MMS-5) with a free firmware update during the second quarter. The company claims that its Mirage Media Server was the first to store digital content collections in a secure, online locker, providing global access and automatic synchronization between locations. The Amazon Cloud Drive integration bolsters Autonomic's growing list of supported online services which currently includes Pandora Internet radio, TuneIn Radio (RadioTime) and SiriusXM Internet radio.… View this story

Rachel Cericola | 01/17 10:45 AM, 0 Comments

Your clients have yet another reason to invest in the iPad. If they own a Mirage Media Server (MMS-5 and MMS-2) and/or the Mirage Media Control System (MCS), they can now use an iPad as a controller. Autonomic says the Mirage Media Controller (MMC) for iPad allows homeowners to browse and control media libraries, as well as supported streaming services. Tap into SiriusXM satellite radio and thousands of web radio stations, or just your own iTunes or Windows Media content. The company also plans to add Rhapsody and Last.fm support… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 12/15 06:28 AM, 1 Comment

Autonomic Controls, which makes some of the best content aggregation software for music lovers, is now offering a multiroom music server for less than $2,000. The new Mirage Media Server MMS-2 is a two-zone version of the company’s original MMS, now called the MMS-5 (for five zones). As with the original Mirage Media Server, the MMS-2 synchronizes music from the cloud, the home network and the server’s own 500 GB hard drive, and presents them in a glorious user interface. Users can manage and control their music libraries via an… View this story

CE Pro Editors | 11/18 07:26 AM, 0 Comments

Autonomic Controls, Inc. has released its Mirage Media Control System 3.0 (MCS), an upgrade (free for Version 2 customers) that adds RadioTime integration along with an iPhone app. The Mirage Media Control System 3.0 is a control solution for integrating digital media and streaming Internet content. MCS already provides two-way control of iTunes, Windows Media Center, Media Player, Pandora and Sirius Internet Radio and has pre-built modules for AMX, Crestron, HAI, RTI and URC. The new Mirage Media Controller (MMC) app turns an iPhone or iPod Touch into a controller… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 10/20 07:25 AM, 20 Comments

If you like integrating Apple TV with home control -- as many CE Pros do -- it’s best to stick with the original model rather than “upgrade” to the new Apple TV 2. Autonomic Controls and Extra Vegetables, two of the original and most popular creators of two-way Apple TV drivers, tell CE Pro that the new Apple TV does not lend itself to integration. Follow us on Twitter! juliejacobson ce_pro“We confirmed that the new device has changed the protocol in a manner that makes it controllable only by other… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 03/16 07:33 AM, 1 Comment

What do you get when you cross a media server and Internet storage with synchronization and home control? The Autonomic Mirage Media Server (MMS) from S1Digital. The product builds on Autonomic’s Media Control System (MCS) technology, which merges multistream iTunes, Windows Media and Internet radio into a whole-house system that can be controlled by AMX, Crestron, RTI, URC and NuVo keypads and touchscreens. “To that we added cloud awareness and began to realize that we have a new category of device,” Autonomic co-founder Michael de Nigris tells CE Pro. The… View this story

Julie Jacobson | 02/26 07:29 AM, 1 Comment

Autonomic Controls, arguably the first company to deliver two-way Apple TV control over IP, has enhanced its Apple TV control module for Crestron, AMX, Universal Remote Control, Remote Technologies Inc. (RTI) and other control systems. Most importantly, the update enables control of Apple TV’s on-screen display (OSD). When Autonomic developed the original module in May 2009, the OSD commands (d-pad, up, down, left, right, enter, menu) were not in the Apple TV protocol, according to Autonomic’s Michael de Nigris. “This meant that while our dealers could integrate media browsing and… View this story