Control4 have announced they are adding the TuneIn service from April this year along with a new hardware device – the Wireless Music Bridge.
The unit will connect your phone, tablet or computer to your Control4 system using AirPlay, Bluetooth and DLNA and will enable you to stream audio from your devices to your main system. Both TuneIn and the £345 Wireless Music Bridge are due for release in Q2 this year. Check out the video here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hpOrnAg-EE)
Control4, a leading innovator in residential and commercial automation systems, announced yesterday an enhanced “Listen” experience, offering customers new ways to enjoy their favorite music and podcasts through their Control4 systems. Starting in Q2 2013, Control4 systems with OS 2.4 will natively include TuneIn, the leading service for listening to music, sports, news and comedy streams from around the world. Additionally, the new Control4 Wireless Music Bridge provides an effortless way for our customers to connect, stream and enjoy music and music services through applications residing on their smart phone, tablet or computer.
TuneIn and Control4 – TuneIn provides Control4 customers direct access to more than 70,000 traditional and internet-only radio stations streaming from around the world, as well as millions of on-demand podcasts, concerts and interviews. TuneIn’s robust search capability helps people discover exactly what they’re looking for, whether it’s their favorite artist, song or radio personality locally or from across the globe. Control4’s integrated, intuitive and elegant user interface delivers station and show listings, filters available choices based on genre, location and language and guides consumers to new online media as well as to the content they already love. TuneIn is seamlessly integrated into Control4 audio zones so that everyone can listen to the same music, or every family member can enjoy their own personalised favorites in different zones at the same time. TuneIn will be available on all Control4 systems running OS 2.4 starting on April 1, 2013.
The Control4 Wireless Music Bridge – The new Control4 Wireless Music Bridge enables homeowners, family members and their guests to wirelessly connect to a Control4 system to enjoy all the music stored on or accessed via personal smart phones, tablets and computers. The Wireless Music Bridge also provides a convenient path for Control4 customers to connect to streaming music services such as Pandora or Spotify on their personal smart devices from a Control4 system – all while preserving full phone and smart device browsing and application capability. Additionally, the Wireless Music Bridge delivers available artwork and metadata directly into the Control4 environment for display within the Control4 “Now Playing” interface on touch-panels, TV on-screens and the MyHome app.