First day of ISE today – Barix is on site, showcasing the complete product portfolio of Audio over IP and IP control applications, including the new IO device server “Barionet 50″.

Visit us at the booth, mention this blog post to Marcel or myself and get invited for a Coffee !

Johannes

For the first time, Barix Audio over IP products are prominently shown on a trade show in South America!

CAPER 2009 opened the doors today, and Barix IP Audio devices are on display and demo at the booth of FS24, Barix’ south american distribution partner.

You can also meet me on the booth until friday afternoon, i made it here and yes, Argentina is really nice, good customers, wine, asado  and nice weather.

Argentina is not a new country for Barix, though – since some time, a rather large number of Barix devices have been installed in the Buenos Aires Subways stations – listen to the high quality of the announcements here to figure out what Barix Audio over IP devices can do for you in transportation installations …

.. and as usual, the first one to come up at the booth and ask me for a coffee will be cordially invited

Johannes

As innovative as it can get !

Our Friends at DMD2, who produce Barix Radio for us, have added the latest perk to it.

You can now follow Barix Radio on Twitter ! Regular tweets update about the next three titels to play, toghether with a direct listen link.

Barix Radio – an easy to listen to, ad-free, high quality Radio station, fully licensed and provided to the community by Barix – a leading provider of professional Audio over IP solutions worldwide !

And remember – it’s easy to listen to Barix Radio, just purchase an Exstreamer, the leading IP Audio Player for Instore Applications. The Streaming Client Software comes pre-set for direct Playback, no configuration needed.

Johannes

Barix Radio, the easy listening online Radio of Barix, manufacturer of innovative Audio over IP devices, is playing the latest hits – since this morning, Robbie William’s latest song, “Bodies”, is part of the Mix.

Thanks to our partner DMD2, who programs our station, we have a fully licensed, ad free, professional radio stream which plays even the very latest hits.
Eonjoy !
Johannes

NASA will stream the radio traffic of the full Apollo 11 mission – exactly 40 years later. And your Barix Exstreamer is an ideal playback device to hear that important piece of history – including the most famous words . The stream has started already, here is the direct link you can put into your Exstreamer (use the Streaming Client Firmware with WMA playback capability):

mms://a828.l7713156827.c77131.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/828/77131/v0001/reflector:56827

The mission will end July 24th – and the great famous words will be hearable at 04:56 European Summer Time (MESZ – but no warranty i got this right !) Here is the NASA webpage for reference:  http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_radio. Unfortunately, Barix with its reliable Audio over IP technolgies has not been around in 1969, otherwise, i bet the products would have been used in the mission

Johannes

Limited space is still available for the Barix Training, which is held next week in Orlando alongside the Infocomm show.

The training will provide an overview about the products offered, the markets, and the technologies used in the Barix Audio over IP as well as IP control devices.

Participation fee is US$150, the attendee gets an Exstreamer 100, Barix’ most popular product, free with the registration, so that is actually a really good deal !

Please contact Barix if you want to participate, but hurry, the event is held already next tuesday (June 1th) !

Johannes

This post is in regards to the Barionet – control products, not audio products …

As you know, the Barionet is securing infrastructure, measuring and managing energy, voltages, controlling HVAC systems and supervising power substations since many years.

And, yes, quite some systems also use it for home automation applications ..

One request we hear quite often is that the device should have a RTC (realtime clock), so that it knows the time when it starts up, even if there is no network connection (once it gets the time via NTP from a server, it can maintain it locally, so the RTC is really only needed for having the time after startup with no network).

Good news: the current firmware supports the Dallas Onewire DS1904 RTC button. You can either connect it to the onewire interface, or you can even put it inside the barionet case if you can solder and mount it with velcro or the like.

Here is a link to a wiki article which describes how to do this: Barionet with RTC

What do you get from that ? A low cost universal, network connected I/O controller with RTC, speaking Modbus/TCP, SNMP as well as ASCII protocols, fully programmable …

Please stay tuned for news on the new Barionet 50 model, coming out in the next couple of weeks.
Johannes

Barix offers an IP Audio and Barix Product presentation workshop alongside NAB, Infocomm and IBC in Las Vegas, Orlando and Amsterdam this year. This workshop runs one day and covers all Barix products and applications in various industries. Workshop at NAB and IBC is focusing more on Broadcast, whereas the workship at Infocomm is targeting more general applications.

Please check out the schedule on the website

Please register early as space is limited !

Johannes

Barix has cut a deal with DMD2, a swiss content provider, makers of hotelradio.fm.

We will launch Barix Radio within the next days ! Official press release to follow.

Barix Radio is hosted by our friends at streamguys.com and provides a genuine mix of really good music, no ads, and is fully licensed in Switzerland, so you can listen to Barix Radio internationally for pleasure at home, in your office or even play it in your factory (you may owe local licensing in your country, something we cannot do for your or control).

Barix Radio, also serves as a nice test channel for Audio over IP applications, and we will preprogram the URL in the Streaming Client firmware so that you can instantly listen to nice music as soon as you have an internet connection (of course you can change that).

The stream is provided as a 128kbps MP3 stream, and an AACplus stream will follow soon.

Please provide feedback, either by our web contact form, or – of course, on the blog.

Johannes

It took some time, but now – finally – the Ethersound implementation in the Barix devices is ready for prime time !

Barix was able to implement the ES100/Spkr variant (output only, no daisy chaining), which integrates perfectly within an Ethersound system, in Software.

The Functionality is useable in all Exstreamer and Annuncicom products, so you now have a wide choice of interfaces from Ethersound to amplifiers, direct to speakers, AES/EBU …. everything Barix can offer !

Very low delay (much less than 10ms with Exstreamer 1000), 2 independent channels per device which can be configured and dynamically controlled to output any of the 64 Ethersound Channels, and a very affordable solution are the key reasons for using Barix devices in an Ethersound installation.
And, of course, the same device can also be used for standard IP Audio distribution (but not at the same time, Ethersound needs exclusivity of the network).
If you want dynamic channel selection, you can combine the Exstreamer with an IR remote control or the VSC – volume source control.

The first customer project has been successfully installed and announced: Barix Ethersound installation

Typical applications include

- audience speaker interface in theaters, dance floors, stadiums
- listening stations in dressing rooms in theatres
- Ethersound based transportation audio systems – speakers
- Retrieve an Ethersound audio channel/signal and feed into an IP network (2 Barix devices back to back)

Please contact Barix for any questions !

Johannes

read more on the Barix wiki – here is the direct link to the Ethersound page: Barix Wiki