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Wake On Lan Plugin

Defrag has created a really cool plugin and I wanted again to show appreciation for his hardwork and to all the individuals that continue to make Xlobby what it is.

Download: http://www.xlobby.com/files/defrag/xWOL.zip

Forum Post:

 http://xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=5676&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Screen Shots:

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Wes Black \ Calrad

Technolobby Manga Skin

Andy finished his latest skin and is available for download. Thanks for sharing another Skin with everyone.

Download Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?xjgvmlcfwzn

Forum Post: http://xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=6192

Some Screen Shots:

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Wes Black \ Calrad

Company

About Calrad

Calrads website: www.calrad.com

Based in Los Angeles, California Calrad Electronics was established in the early 1950’s and was one of a small hand full of companies distributing electronic products to consumers, hobbyists and professional sound engineers. The original name Calrad came from California Radio. Some manufacturing was done in the U.S. and eventually made it’s way off shore to Japan and to Taiwan and as today market trends dictate in China. Most of Calrad’s line of products are deigned and engineered here in the U.S..

Today Calrad’s product line has over 5,000 items and continues to serve our growing customer base. Our long history and active involvement in the electronics market place has consistently created new markets and products for our customers. Calrad maintains a large loyal customer base that continues to push us in many area’s of new product development and emerging technologies, such as the xLobby media management and control system.

Calrad serves many industries all with different needs, Consumers, Home Theater System Integrators, Pro-A\V, OEM as well as Aerospace and Medical markets. Calrad remains committed to quality products and customer service. We have many distributors who have both on line E-Commerce and walk in retail sales distribution.

Calrad Continues to grow and achieve success because of our strong foundation of building long term relationships with our customers and the friendly, personal hands on service they have received over the years.

We appreciate your continued support and hope you put Calrad at the top of your list when purchasing electronic products, parts & accessories.

Team Calrad

Partners

xLobby Partners

Lighting
Powerline Control Systems, Inc.
19201 Parthenia St., Suite J
Northridge, CA 91324
Toll free: 888-701-9831
Phone: 818-701-9831
Fax: (818) 701-1506
Website: http://www.pulseworx.com/
Insteon, SmartLabs, Inc.
16542 Millikan Avenue
Irvine, CA 92606-5027
Website: http://www.insteon.net/
CCTV Products
Infinity Security Systems, Inc.
2530 Corporate Pl. Suite A108
Monterey Park, CA 91754
Tel: 323-526-0088
Fax: 323-526-0099
Sales: sales@infinitycctv.com
Website: http://www.infinitycctv.com/
Security
ELK Products, Inc.
Hildebran, N.C. 28637
Toll Free: 800-797-9355
Local: 828-397-4200
Fax: 828-397-4415
Sales: sales@elkproducts.com
IP Based Control Systems
Aurora Multimedia,
205 Commercial Court
Morganville, NJ 07751
Tel: 732-591-5800
Fax: 732-5915801
Website: http://auroramultimedia.com/products/products07.php?section=products&category=2
Global Cache,
East California Street
PO Box 1659
Jacksonville, OR 97530
Tel: 541-899-4800
Fax: 541-899-4808
Website: http://www.globalcache.com/
Multizone Audio Systems
Russound,
Forbes Road
Newmarket, NH 03857
Tel: 603-659-5170
Website: http://www.russound.com/

Russound designs and manufactures a complete range of multiroom audio-video systems, multichannel amplifiers, and loudspeakers. The company pairs powerful systems using the latest technologies with intuitive controls to give customers high-performance, easy-to-use solutions.

FAQ

xLobby Faq.

Question: Can other control systems be used with xLobby
Answer: Yes, xLobby can be controlled by Crestron, AMX, Universal Remote Control, Pronto, RTI among others including xLobbys own powerful control interface.
Question: How many clients can watch movies at the same time.
Answer: xLobby can support between 5-10 clients depending on the setup.
Question: How many DVD movies can I store on my xLobby Client system
Answer: The average DVD movie requires approximately 7 GB of storage. Therefore, you can expect to store approximately 60 DVDs on a 500 GB Disk drive with space for the xLobby OS and room for Music, Pictures, Videos. Additional drive storage can be added using external USB hard drives or by accessing xLobby servers or xLobby NAS (Network attached Storages) systems with larger storage capacities. Storage math: (60 Movies x 7GB ea.= 420GB) with 20GB for xLobby + OS leaving 60GB.
Question: How many audio CDs can I store on my xLobby Client system.
Answer: The average audio CD requires about 0.60 gigabytes of storage. Therefore, you can expect to store approximately 800 CDs on a standard 500 GB drive minus 20GB of space for the OS with no room for Movies, Pictures. Storage Math: (800 Cds x 0.60MB ea.= 480GB) . 832 CDs can be stored on a 500GB external drive.
External USB Drives we recommend.
Website: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/index.asp
Western Digital 500GB Drive:
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Question: What input devices does xLobby support.
Answer: xLobby supports IR remotes, Touchscreens, PS2, IR-RF Mouse & Keyboard.
Question: How long does it take to import a DVD or CD?
Answer: DVDs take between 7-9 minutes, CDs between 2-3 minutes.
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Question: What is the xlobby Music & Movie spider?
Answer: xLobby has its own online database of Movie & Music titles with prestine cover artwork and Movie details. Users can access xLobbys online database to select which title matches there content. xLobby also uses multiple online websites to access as a backup method to obtain cover artwork and content information.
Question: Does xLobby support Multi-Zone audio.
Answer: Yes xLobby client or server based products support up to 4 audio streams with individual music track assignment and volume controls. xLobby provides Stereo analog audio outputs for use with a standard stereo amplifier or Russounds CAM, CAV products or any other muti-zone audio control systems.
4 Zones of independent Audio from xLobby

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4 Zones of Audio Synced to any one of the 4 independent Zones

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Question: What Video output resolutions does xLobby support.
Answer: xLobby supports HDTV 480P, 720P, 1080I for component and DVI-HDMI Video outputs. Our new HDMI 1080p graphic cards will be available sometime in April 2008.
Question: What types of Touchscreens does xLobby support.
Answer: xLobby supports both serial RS232 and USB type. Touchscreen Forum Topic: http://xlobby.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=28
Question: Can xLobby password protect menu items.
Answer: Yes.
Question: How do you delete a Album title permanetly from the Music database.
Answer: Navigate to the Generic Music menu, Select the artist, the track overlay menu will load, select the button labeled ” Delete Album”, this will prompt you yes\no to permanetly delete the Album from the database.
Question: What type of universal remotes can control xLobby.
Answer: The xLobby client or server can be controlled with just about any universal remote. Depending on the capabilities of the remote, control may be simple 1-button actions to get to specific places in the xLobby interface, or may be more general and require multiple button presses to get to a specific Menu. A complete Hex code file is availabe for our standard remote control, part number 95-1070. http://www.calrad.com/download/95-1070.wir

Installers

Certified xLobby Installers

USA

Audio & Video Simplified
15568 Brookhurst St #340
Westminster, Ca. 92683
800-625-9014

Custom Castle
5764 San Vicente Blvd Suite 403
Los Angeles, CA 90019
Tel: (310) 995-4441
Website:
http://www.customcastle.com

Bang & Olufsen (Old Pasadena)
169 West Green Street
Pasadena, CA 91105
United States
Tel: (626) 449-5172
Fax: (626) 449-5182
Website: http://www.bang-olufsen.com/sw5809.asp

Defined Entertainment Design
2696 Lavery Court Ste. #5
Newbury Park, CA 91320
Tel: (805) 376-0052
Fax: (805) 376-0053
Website: http://www.definedav.com/

Digitainment
1801 Diamond Street, Suite 103
San Marcos, CA 92078
Tel: (760) 891-0571
Fax: (760) 891-0576
Website: http://www.digitainment4u.com/

Extreme Audio Video Source
26266 Campbell Ct.
Stevenson Ranch, CA 91381
Tel: (818) 262-6899
Website: http://www.extremeavsource.com/

Illuminating Concepts
222 West 21st St.
Norfolk, VA 23517
757-965-3895

Noho Plasma
4822 Vineland Ave.
Northhollywood, CA 91601
Tel: (866) 421-1438, (310) 988-8944
Website: www.nohoplasma.net

R. Kandel Media Group
Tel: (818) 366-4039 Los Angeles, California
Media Design Group, Inc. - Atlanta, Georgia
Tel: (404) 456-5363,
Fax: (818) 363-2599, E-Mail: rdkav@yahoo.com

Ultimate Installations
21143 Hathore Blvd #311
Torrance, CA 90503
Tel: 310-667-6483
Website: http://ultimate1.net/

Canada

Orca Security
Unit #111, 8988 Fraserton Crt
Burnaby, BC, V5J 5H8
Tel: 604.431.8803
Fax: 604.431.8489, Website: http://www.orcasecurity.ca/home_theatre.shtml

Distributors

Authorized xLobby Distributors

United States

Volutone Distributing
Website: http://www.volutone.com/Locations.aspx

Electronic City
4001 W. Burbank Blvd, Burbank
CA 91505
Tel: (818) 842-5275

Website: http://electronicity.com

JDUB Electronics
7625 Camden Circle
Reno, Nv. 89506
Tel: 775-225-2485
Fax: 775-677-8960

Norfolk Wire & Cable
Tel: 757-631-8500
Website: http://www.norfolkwire.com

Canada

Swanson Agency
Maple Ridge, Canada, Tel: (604) 290-3118

Plan B
119 boul. Brunswick, Suite 300
Pointe Claire, QC H9R 5N2
Tel: (514) 694-4999
Website: http://www.distributionplanb.com/english.html

UK

Available soon…….

Skins

AndyG TouchScreen Skins


I am pleased to offer 2 versions of my skin for your enjoyment
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AndyG TECHNOLOBBY MANGA


It weighs in at a hefty 17.36MB. The fonts you need are in the Resource folder. I hope you like it. Comments as ever, good or bad welcome.
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AndyG Technolobby Touch


You will need the plugins Xshout (in plugin config set stations to 5) and Xmusic (milkdrop 1 needed for winamp vis). Fonts u need i have included in rescource folder.I hope you like it (i do!), alot of work has gone in to making it as professional and user friendly as i could get it. There was alot of photoshop involved.
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Features

Skinning Design any style control interface you want, customize your menus to best suit your needs. Create different styles and size buttons, graphic image elements, backgrounds, text. Not only will you be able to customize your skin, but you can also download and install other skins from xLobbys skin download section to find something that best suits your taste and needs. xlobbyskin.JPG
Music Built into xLobby is a rather sophisticated audio management system. It will scan your entire audio collection and create a database based off this information. And if your missing some cover art for your album it has a built in cover art downloader. Music is played back using xlobbys internal player or external players like winamp, and doing so allows you to configure it with any of the many freely available plugins. Search music by Album Name, Artist Name, Track Name, Genre, Year. Create custom playlists, load and mix various saved playlists for new listening experiences.  cds5.jpg
Movies Another built in management system for movies is included with xlobby. Not only will it scan and load your movies, but it can also download cover art, movie information, and even stills. Movies are usually played back using xLobbys internal Media player or 3rd party external players like theater tek, or zoomplayer but any other player can be used if properly configured. xLobby has 5 independent movie databases that can be named or renamed for any purpose, 1. (Movies) for any type of content, (Movies Family) for all movies appropriate for younger family members, (Movies Music) access all your favorite music artists live concert or music videos, (Adult) any content appropriate for Adult viewing only, (Movies Video) for archieving all your family home videos. xlobbymovies.jpg
Category Functionality Why stop at music and movies, also included is xlobby is the idea of a category/database system for anything you can imagine. You can create your very own screen for games, trailers, music videos, recipes, and anything else you can imagine. It’s just so flexible people have used it in ways we never even imagined.
Multi Client Support The ability to control/interface with your server through one or more pc’s or pocket pc’s for that matter is the future of home theater computing. Let me give you an example, let’s say you have a multizone audio system setup from your computer to several different rooms, each room could have a touch screen that controls the audio for that specific room.
Multizone audio There are a couple of ways to do multizone audio with xlobby. One can use the sound card(s) in multiple xLobby Clients-Servers or use the sound card(s) or multi-zone expansion boards in a single xLobby Client-Server unit. Regardless of which way you choose to do it, each sound card will become a “zone” that will be controlled through xlobby. For example, you could have several different songs playing from one xLobby Client or Server all being sent to several different rooms around the house, with total independent controlability. And lets say you wanted to have one song playing in every room at the exact same time in (Sync Mode)….you can do that too.
Pocket PC support There is not one pocket pc program out there today that can interface to your home theater like xlobby can. By default you will be able to control your DVD’s and your music from the comfort of your wifi pda. But if thats not enough, you can always create additional screens through the skin editor…expandability is the key word here. Oh and yes you can edit your pocket pc interface just like the rest of xlobby with the drag and drop skin editor, anything that can be done on the main xlobby screens can also be done on the pocket pc screens.
Idependent Client Control A very unique feature that is only available in xlobby, is the ability to have multiple pc and pockets pc clients independent of each other. So if your wife has her pocket pc looking at pictures or controlling the music in living room, you could have yours controlling the music in the garage :)

Quick Docs

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Product Part Numbers and Descriptions Available Here Soon ………………
xLobby IR Keyboard

xLobby Touchscreens

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Part No. 95-1062BK, WH, Product Brochure:

xLobby Audio Dongles

xLobby Client

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Part No. 95-2005, Product Brochure:

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xLobby Client Rack Mount Kit 95-2005RMK


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xLobby Server
xLobby Home Automation Bundle
Insteon Lighting Products
UPB-PCS Lighting Products
xLobby Elk Products
xLobby Globalcache Products

xLobby WACI, IP Based Controller

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Part No. 40-WACI Brochure:

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