On 9/18/25 14:16, Ethan O'Toole via vcf-midatlantic wrote:

Hotel TVs do tricks to support the ondemand systems. oncommand was one and there was another. When someone hits menu it would secretly jump the tv to an unused channel and the hotel headend would generate menus for that user bbrowsing. Buy a movie and you get on a dedicated private channel where you can see it. We could get the tvs into add/remove channel mode and you could just go up thru the channels and see people browsing menus, watching movies and sometimes naked people.

Didn't need the TV for that I could hear them through the walls (hehe) I think a few odd sets with Linux controllers had serial (wasn't an EIA232 port but something else).

I moved off AMX to this linux python pile called HomeAssistant and it's on my to-dos to add a serial to network bridge and make home assistant talk to my home stereo preamp which has rs232. Home assistant is wild, it's crazy but also crazy powerful.

Maddeningly complex when doing complex things but also incredibly powerful. Going to play with some AI (not local - haven't quite got a clear understanding of that). But it's not the control aspect part that I'm using AI with. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies KD2ZRQ