The new Clever Media Control (CMC) system is designed to allow Microsoft Windows Media Center Edition to sit at the heart of a whole house digital media solution.
CMC provides a single, easy to use interface for viewing, searching and playing back music stored on MCE and for controlling the multi-room audio distribution system as well as other commonly used entertainment products.
CMC can scale up from a simple single source single zone system to a 6 source, six zone implementation. Further expansion up to 12 sources can also be achieved using additional CMC products.
CMC offers a full range of products for distributing and controlling multi-room audio and video.
How Does It Work?
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Clever Media Control Server (CMCS)
The CMCS application is a control protocol designed to provide network control of a MCE2005 or Vista Media Center over a standard IP network.
CMCS also provides full control of any Media Centre Extender attached to a master MCE PC (such as the XBOX 360), which means that a single CMCS server can support up to 6 independent music streams.
The CMCS can be purchased "pre-installed" on a Clever Media Server (offering up to 3.5TB of RAID protected storage) or as a software only product to be installed on any standard Windows Media Centre Edition PC.
CMCS uses the Autonomic Home MCE Control Server to provide part of its feature set. This makes CMC Server compatible with both AMX and Creston control tablets in addition to the CMC Client. |
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Clever Media Control Client (CMCC)
The heart of CMCC is the audio access interface to all the digital music stored on your Media Centre PC (s). This provides you the same functionality found in the "My Music" section of the Media Center interface, including the ability to browse your content by album, artist, genre and playlist.
The simple search function easily finds exactly what you are looking for without needing to be in front of your TV or monitor. Best of all these features are quite literally at your fingertips as the entire experience is controlled via a touch screen wireless tablet.
View Browsing by Album Screenshot
View Now Playing Queue Screenshot
Any music added to your Media Center becomes instantly available within the CMCC interface.
A CMCC tablet can control multiple CMC Servers and extenders. This provides enormous flexibility to cater for even the most demanding system requirements.
In addition the CMCC also provides control of multi-room audio distribution products from NuVo and Russound. Commands are sent to the CMCS which queue's the commands and forwards them to a Global Cache (GC100 IP to RS232/IR gateway) via IP. The GC100 then forwards the commands to the multi-room amplifier via a RS232 connection.
Features include source selection, zone selection, party mode, per zone bass & treble controls and zone coupling.
View Source Selection Screenshot
View Zone Selection Screenshot
View Party Mode Screenshot
Though CMCC has been optimised as a touch-screen application, making it ideal for installation on the latest generation of Ultra Mobile UMPC or tablet's it can also be installed on any Windows XP PC for maximum flexibility.
Multiple CMCC enabled clients can be configured in multi-zones or a single CMCC device can be moved from zone to zone to provide control wherever you need it.
CMCC also provides a touch-screen MCE remote control interface to control the entire Media Centre experience from any location.
View MCE Remote Control Screenshot
Browsing By Album
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Now Playing Queue
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Source Selection
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Zone Selection
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Party Mode Selection
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MCE Remote Control View
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