Turning off TV's ??

[Diversecity106]

Hey ladies and gentlemen,

I went and saw Jeff Deyo at an amazing church here in washington. A couple of the staff at the church recognized me from a time I had been there in the past and I was able to go check out their video room. AMAZING!!!! But anyway, they had a touch screen interface in thier control room that allowed them to turn on and off their projectors, tvs all the way out in their foyer, and ect... all from this screen.

Questio is. Does anyone know of a similar way to do this? Is a touch screen interface the only way to go with this? I have two screens at the front of house and a big screen tv in the rear of the church for the lyrics for the worship team. Is there a way I could turn these tvs on and of together from where I have our video control?

[cmchamp]

Things were setup with either a Crestron or AMX controlled system. This is pretty much a standard in large installs.
C.

[Gracetech]

To make it short, anything is possible with time money and someone that knows what their doing. You probably saw a control from crestron or another source(this is where that person comes in). But that won't get you all the pieces of your puzzle. You have to generally tell these companys with the controls what you have and they can tell you if they have or they can develop the control for it(This is where the money comes in). If all goes well in "time" you will have control and look stylish too.

crt

[Diversecity106]

ok before this post gets to far. I don't want to spend an outrageous amount of money on a company like this. I was just thinking for convienence. I have two 60 inch Toshiba cinemaview big screen tvs at the FOH and a 50 inch JVC in the back. I just want an easy way to turn them all on and off without walking on stage to do that.

Is it possilbe to rig something inexpensivly?

[[Admin] skstarkiller]

You could throw the main breaker

[Gracetech]

Remote controls that came with them cheap? I kinda like sk's idea

You can research a little on this site for projector remote control and find the threads where this is talked about.

crt

[Johnnycat]

A simple IR control system is easy to set up

Have a look at this stuff:

http://www.partsexpress.com/webpage....anufacturer=88

Also have a look at:

http://www.partsexpress.com/pe/showd...number=180-828

[wxrman]

But remember that some of these devices need to be shut off via their own shutdown sequence... for proper cooling.

At the very least, I would look into whether you can send a "screen off" signal via serial control... if not, then at least run black to them, to prevent burn-in. I have a very expensive plasma with our station logo burned into it...

shawn

[kac4him]

Actually the better way would be a common light (a key'd one would be better to prevent a oooops thats what that does) switch controlling the power to them

But you would probley have to run around and turn them back on with the remote control
and set the Chanel and any other special settings you have then to

I would give a to extending the remote controls to a Central location (this is were it is a plus to having the same manufacture and model one remote could control all the TV's or get a programmable universal remote so you don't need to have 3 different remotes)

[sempei13]

I'm actually thinking of doing something like this with our tvs and dvd players. The ir receiver could be mounted in a box with a universal remote set to send the "power off/on" signal in one button for the projectors (given that they're the same make and model) and the "power off/on" for the tvs in another. The touch screens and panel switches to do this are the expensive part of this type of install. The IR "pucks" and receiver is fairly cheap. You could probably do it with a bunch of cat5 and the IR gear for less than $100 if you wanted to use a remote control instead of the screen and panel solution.

I have a guy at church that installs expensive home theatres and he can get us the IR gear for almost nothing, but his cost on the controls (touch screen etc) is in the upper hundreds or lower thousands and that's just too much for what we do.

Oh yeah, many projectors will take a wired remote or can be accessed through a program run on a networked PC. Then it's just cable to make it work. The light switch idea might work for the tvs, though if they come back on when power is reapplied. Try this test, turn them on and unplug from the wall. If when you plug the cord back in, they turn back on, then get yourself a volunteer (certified) electrician from your church and have him install a $1 switch and you're golden, just don't put it near the lights or someone is liable to turn your tvs on or off by accident looking for the house lights.

Paul

[Mark Finley]

every projector I own has a setting that maked it turn itself off 5 minutes after it can't find a signal. If you kill the computer or DVD player that is feeding the projector, it should tirn it's self off later.

Did I miss the question?

[nevmoor]

The low cost simple way would be to use a wired IR remote sensor. I think this is a great way to get the same type of access at lower cost. I need to look around, but I remember an FSR rack unit that was IR "programmable". Basically you wired your remote IR buds to this unit. You could use you IR remote to program the buttons on the FSR unit and use it instead of having a bunch of remotes hanging around. I will try to get more info on this.