This in HPR episode 2543 entitled, Home Theatre Part 1 Hardware.
It is posted by Operation Hero R, and in about 9 minutes long, and Karina Cleanflag.
The summary is, I go over my Home Theatre sashimi to set up starting with Hardware.
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Today we're going to be a multiple part series kind of of my media center set up, which
is that of Plex, and some speakers, and receivers, and hardware, and software, and Internet
of things, and all that good stuff.
So, if you're not interested in media setups and automation through building your own
kind of TBO, this is probably not the best fit for you, but anyways, where this section
is going to be probably three part, maybe four part.
This first section is going to be the hardware of my Plex and media system.
So, it started out way back when we had not met, which would actually plug into your
cable card on your computer, and you could record the media from the cable output.
And they held all this cool processing where it would remove commercials, and not necessarily
moved commercials, but it would detect the presence of, for example, the logo of the network,
and then automatically know when to skip commercials, and all that good stuff.
So, I ran with not met for a certain amount of time, and then I did the whole complete
unplug, and we use a Yagi antenna for the over-the-air stuff, and everything else is
downloaded.
So, the setup here is, you know, this is a point-time capture, so there might be new
or models, or better solutions for hardware, and set up, and all that stuff is kind of
a point-time capture, over the course of a couple of years, from 2017, 2018.
So, I'll go over the setup.
First things first, I have a receiver, and it's an on-yoko, and then you pay in K-Y-O receiver.
Every receiver has kind of a standby mode where you can control it with an application,
or a remote of your choosing.
So, what I went with was the Zoom tag, C-O-N-T-A-K wireless remote, and then on the other
side, it was a keyboard.
So, on one side, it's a kind of a directional kind of traditional remote, and then on the other
side, it's a straight-up keyboard.
Now, you can have four keys on the bottom of the Zoom tag to assign to whatever you want.
What I did find is between the on-q-o, and the Panasonic world, they either want to
work for the other one didn't work.
So, I couldn't get Panasonic and on-co on-q-o to play nice together.
So, I ended up with the receiver being the master, meaning that I got a trickle-star
7 outlet advanced power strip, which essentially has a master of the receiver, and the receiver
says, hey, anytime there's something on on this device, turn everything else down the
stream on.
Anytime there's this device on the master is off, then turn everything else off.
So, I have my PV and the actual sub, and the Wii, and the Wii you all wired up to that same
switch, that same power strip.
So, when I turn on the receiver, everything else gets power, and then I want to turn it off,
everything else loses power, minus the receiver is kind of on my standby mode.
So, within the master always gets power, everything else actually, the power is completely
cut off when you turn off the master, which is kind of the whole vampire thing, whatever.
So, anyways, we start with the trickle-star, have the master set up as the receiver, we
have Android apps or whatever to control the receiver, so you got your Bluetooth, you've
got your Chromecast audio support through that player, and I've got all the notes in
there for TV.
Then, as a backup for the actual media server itself, I have a cyber power, CP-1500 AVR-LCD, it's
got an LCD panel on the front, and also I've provided the configuration file that I
use for it to kind of automatically shut it's at all, it doesn't do any of that when
you first set up, I think it automatically shuts off right when the power chips, so if the
power chip goes in the shop mode or something, so the configuration file that I have
is pretty good for cyber power, it says like, after 30% then shut your shelf down.
The cool part is the wireless setup I have for the audio, so for example, if the child
is around and we want to watch something, we can still listen to the audio and watch the
program with the child not hearing the content, so it works more at night, right, but in
general, it's a Bluetooth receiver transmitter, key docks, K, EEDOX, and this is a little box
as a USB Bluetooth device that plugs in to a power source, and it does have it on board
or battery that we never really use, so that power source provides the power 247 to the
box, the box is falling into the computer, the other side is plugged into when you need
it into the auxiliary in or auxiliary out of the receiver, so at night you plug in the
big, it's not the headphone jack, it's the bigger one, whatever it's called, and you plug
that into the receiver and then everything gets pipe to the actual, the key docks, now
the cool thing about that is I purchased I, RUZO, wireless Bluetooth headset, I, R, U, N,
Z, O, they're pretty slick, they're lightweight, they held up pretty well, one of them
actually broke, and I don't know if it's because of my child, it's messing with it
or whatever, but they, they're seem pretty solid, if you take, take decent care of them
and don't throw them around like a ragdoll, I wouldn't recommend giving them to children
or anything like that, but I would say they held up, they've held up for the past couple
of years, got a decent battery and all that stuff, so the idea of the era is that the
key docks supports two, not only one device, but two devices, and there's a bunch of stuff
out there on the internet, and I wasn't able to find anything that was a reasonable price,
so for the price of the key docks and two of the Bluetooth, any Bluetooth, two Bluetooth headphones
you can use, I use the, the, the, I, I, RUZO, TV, RUZO, NFC, foldable ones, they're pretty
slick, so the idea there is that you set it, turn it on, and then you hold the two outside
plus and minus sign, and you can set a second pair and sink two actual audio devices.
I thought that was pretty cool, um, as far as everything else goes, you know, you've got
your, your fishing tape, your standard stuff to, to run the wires in the cable, you
definitely want to be wired for this type of system, and I'll go over the rest of that
in a different series, so the rest of this series, so the, the first part is kind of
playing out the hardware, all that, and maybe in a couple of weeks, I'll have the second
or third part, which is going over the software, up for plex, and all that mess, and then
going over the software for, QP, Cody, going over the software for Cody, and all that
mess, and kind of somewhere in between, or both, or one of the other, I'll do all the
internet-based stuff with, with, all the, the content, and all that, so, anyways, that
should wrap this up, um, if you're interested, feel free to let me know what your thoughts
are, if you do have a plex or a Cody system, more specifically a plex system, and what
your setup is, and if there's anything new with being that I'm missing, um, please let
me know, and, uh, we'll pick up this in a couple of other episodes, you've been listening
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