[quote user="Dave"]I really don't understand the benefits...[/quote] Basically, a increasing number of (rich or very geeky) people want a Home Automation system. Having a computer that control the whole house appliances, curtains, heating, lights, burgler alarms, watering the plants, etc... Today, if you want a system like that it does

I read in this section of the forum that it was possible to control a Roomba vaccum cleaner with the Beo5. Is the a 3rd party XML file for the Roomba yet? p.

Am I the only one to get excited about this news... I do not really need a Home Automation system. My LC2 on every lamp is sufficient for me. But I think it is a great great news for B&O and its future. http://www.knxshop.co.uk/catalog/default.asp?id=000-012 Above is link showing all the applicances that can be used on a KNX system, KNX being one

Have you got the software yourself? What kind of Fancy programming do you want to do?

No... Every other B&O hifi can, but no Beosound 5. Beosound 5 is in fact just a LCD screen and a Wheel. There is no intelligence in it so it cannot do anything on its own. p.

[quote user="Dave"]You make me laugh so much Andy[/quote] Have a look at this very serious document: http://www.pervasive-computing.dk/publications/files/cfpc.pdf

@TWG: It is the data that is transfered probably, not the sound and vision. This is to transfer your Beo5 commands to your home automation commands. To use Ethernet cable to carry your ML signal, B&O has some other type of adapors.

This is a very good news... What is the green box? Beosystem 3... I do understand that a Beo5 command can be sent to the Home Automation system. However, what kind of command can be sent from the Automation system to the ML... you cannot really start a TV from the ML network itself...

The problem is that Lossy formats have been advertised has being audibly identical to the original, and they were not. Now that lossless formats say the same, people don't trust that promise. People have associated the word "compression" with quality loss and do not realise it is possible to reduce the size of a file without losing any

Alex, I don't think we'll ever get the message through! ;-)