CasaTunes™ Technical Article – XXX
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Next, go to the Zones tab:
In this Window you can decide which zones you want to Mute when the signal comes in.
The CasaTunes default is for all zones to mute. If you want a zone to keep playing any
time the mute signal comes in, remove the check mark in the box next to “Enable Muting
or Paging on this zone?” by clicking on the box. Do this for any zone that you don’t want
to respond to the muting signal. Keep in mind that you can also, temporarily, keep the
mute signal from muting a room by clicking the DND indicator for that room in the
CasaTunes user interface.
Now, click on the “Summary” tab and click on “Finish” to apply all of these changes.
The muting signal from the external device will turn off the music in all of the rooms that
are enabled for muting and that do not have DND set. As soon as the signal goes away
the music will start again.
Paging
Paging can be used to switch a doorbell tone to the speakers in your house or for paging
through the CasaTunes system using your telephone. The audio from the device (doorbell
box or phone system) is plugged into a line input on the XLe interface card that is
installed in your music server PC. The signal that switches the music from the currently
playing music to the paging source goes to the Mute input. To use the Mute input,
connect the switching output of the device that supplies the switching signal through a
3.5mm to 3.5mm mono (or stereo) cable from the switching output of the paging device
to the Mute input. (The paging device may not use a 3.5mm jack for the switching signal.
If not, purchase the correct adapting cable so that the positive 12 volt signal is on the tip
of the 3.5mm plug and ground is on the sleeve at the XLe end of the cable. The sleeve is
the conductor furthest from the tip of the plug).
