“Apps Provide Powerful RTI System Control From Anywhere With Complete Customization Via Integration Designer(R) Software

At InfoComm 2010, Remote Technologies Incorporated (RTI) announced that the company is bringing the power of its control solutions to the iPhone(R), iPod touch(R), and iPad(R) with the new RTiPanel app. With the app installed on any of these popular Apple(R) products, users can have complete control of RTI’s XP series of remote processors — including the flagship XP-8 and upcoming XP-3 and XP-6 — and all connected electronic systems from virtually anywhere in the world. For intuitive operation, the graphical user interface is completely customizable to any system via RTI’s award-winning Integration Designer(R) software… read full article“

What this means to us at Harrogate Home Cinema

This could potentially be phenomenal news, as up until now, use of the iphone for home automation has fallen into one of two categories:

- multiple apps controlling multiple devices e.g. a blu-ray app for the blu-ray player, a lighting app for the lighting, an audio app for the multi-room audio etc. time consuming and confusing to say the least

- apps with little or no customisation or support, leaving you lost wandering through your clunky control system with an all-too-unhelpful user interface confusing you at every turn

At Harrogate Home Cinema, we have found neither of these solutions to be too helpful to our clients needs, and welcome the concept that we can finally use our mobile devices to control our home automation systems with the swift, graceful approach we have been promised for so long. Now we just have to wait a couple of months longer for pricing details. The anticipation is mounting…

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