AirLink info
Nope, haven't given up on MediaPhile at all. MediaPhile appears to have a
more 'complete' system, as well as offers direct (ie. not IR) control of
some consumer/professinal equip. It also offers IR control as well,
though. But the MediaPhile stuff is a good deal more expensive; for
instance the basic MediaPhile IR Controller (hardware) is $245, and the
basic software is $200 (plus another disk for another $200). As the man
says, 'Soon you're talking real money' 🙂
So I was looking for an alternative and research turned up Geodesic
Publications and their AirLink. Boy they sure don't advertise much!
Anyway, I called them up, spoke with Mark Adams (the main guy), had a nice
chat about Triclops Invasion (he actually remembered that I'd written him a
nice letter re Triclops in about 1987! and he mentioned it first… ie….
'Say, didn't you write me a letter years ago re Triclops?…'). Anyway, it
sounded like AirLink did pretty much what I wanted, for $50 no less, so I
took a chance and ordered it from him. Turns out it works great!
So, I'm still interested in MediaPhile, but want to more fully explore
AirLink (and it's companion products) first. Why? 1) Cost. 2) It seems
to offer pretty good low-level support (ARexx, multiple ways to control
stuff), and 3) I like the guy, and if his stuff works I am satisfied. So
far I haven't found anything Geodesic's stuff can't do that I want.
If I decide to go with some 'Prosumer' level Sony or Pioneer equip then
I'll likely go with some MediaPhile stuff, since they offer direct control
of that equip, which the Geodesic stuff does not. Make sense?
–jp–seattle–