Hello,

I have house wired for speakers (no CAT5 wiring), and I am looking for an economical way to use this. I have an Onkyo 605 receiver with a powered second zone and was looking into buying a speaker selector, but all I could find are manual push button ones. Does a speaker selector with remote control exist? and if not what is a good alternative for remote audio switching and a tight budget? Thanks for the help,

Were the rooms wired for volume controls also?
The main need for a speaker selector switch "box" in whole house audio systems is it provides the needed impedance protection for the amp driving the system. I have found that few customers utilize the on/off buttons on the speaker selector switches as they just turn the volume down all the way for a complete mute in room when desired.
If you don't have volume controls installed already, you may consider using those of the Impedance Matching design. They will eliminate the need to buy a speaker selector switch "for it's impedance protection" as it is then provided by the volume controls themselves.
The additional cost for an impedance matching volume control typically saves over the cost of standard versions along with a speaker selector box. Also one less device cluttering up the equipment location.

Thanks for the reply. Yes there is volume control wiring and the volume controls are not installed but I am not sure if this will solve my problem of how to switch speakers remotely using my receiver which has one powered second zone? Thanks again,

You wish to remotely control which room / rooms your zone 2 speaker level outputs of your 605 are being sent to ??
If so, I have never seen one that has the wireless function your looking for.
If your looking for the ability to tell the 605, from remote rooms to utilize the Zone 2 Speaker Level Jacks "leaving you with 5.1 in your home theater" then your just looking for an IR distribution system "aka IR Repeaters". Cheapest would be the RF kits like the Terk Leapfrog with additional transmitter units. You could buy one kit, then move it's transmitter unit from room to room and see that it communicates well from the required locations. Then buy transmitters as needed.

Master bath, bedroom and deck. I just want to be able to remotely switch the speakers. The equipment I have are Onkyo 605 receiver with a powered 2nd zone and a logitech harmony 890 with RF base. Thanks a lot for your help.

I am afraid the manufacturers see it that if the end user wishes to cancel music from being played in a room, while in that room, they need to manipulate the Volume Control itself. Be it manually or via remote. This or manipulate the controllers of multi source, mult amp systems through their keypads. I have never seen a speaker selector switch with wireless control such as your looking for.

I am in a similar dilema. But I dont even have cables run for volume control in each room. I found a company called ATON. They have something called a DLA(?). This might do the trick for you. Im seriously considering it. The other possiblity for you would be to scrap your Harmony remote and get into Control4. They have wireless speaker points.

Thank you so much. The ATON product seems very interesting and it sells on amazon.

yea ATON might fit your needs!
you can get it in rf or you can use a universal remote.

Take a look at the AB8SS, http://hacs.com. It is an 8 speaker switcher, with impedance protection, that can be remotely controlled by ir, x10 or rs-232.

They also have a new product, ESS, which is a modular product where the user can customize the config. with the switching modules necessary. This product additionally provides ir, x10 or rs-232 controlled remote volume levels for each speaker pair.

has123 -

I'm looking for the exact solution for use with a harmony 890. What did you end up doing, and how did it work out?

Thanks,
Avery

I am looking for the same thing, is the Aton controllable by the Harmony 890 to turn on/off and change volumes for each set of speakers independently?

http://atonhome.com/IRCodes.html
these are all the discretes we have.

How do you recommend connecting to a Harmony IR extender? You can independently control each zone with the remote?

yes go into any rooms ir and ground and with the discreets you can caontrol all rooms