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The Barix Wiki is maintained by Barix staff and users/community. Barix does try to keep the content accurate and error free, and we do review third party contributions, however, we can not guarantee everything is 100% accurate or up-to-date. If you find any mistakes, errors etc. - please feel free to correct them !

Applications

Barix products can be used in a vast variety of applications and markets. Below links bring you to pages which describe applications, which products to use etc

• Automation Applications - this includes data conversion, collection, remote managment and monitoring (non-audio) applications
• Broadcast Applications - Applications in the Broadcast Industry such as STL, internet radio, monitoring
• General Audio Distribution Applications - distribution of audio channels in hotels, over the internet, homes, amusement parks etc
• Alarm Applications - Use of the Barix products in emergency alerting applications
• SIP Applications - Use of the Barix products with SIP protocol for SIP speaker, intercom, phone applications
• Intercom Applications - specific page referring to Intercom Applications
• Crestron Integration - integrating audio over IP with Crestron touchpanels
• IP Intercom - a general description
• Rebroadcasting Application - what does it do ?

Hardware Topics

• Software/Hardware compatibility matrix
• USB device compatibility list

Software Topics

General Topics

• Multicast - how does multicast work with Barix products ?

Streaming Client

• Howtos
• Example configurations
• Windows Media streaming (MMS/WMA)
• Channel Selection To play different URL streams at different times
• Stream Switching

BCL Topics

• BCL programming tips

Support, FAQ, Helpful information

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

You will find many answers to common questions here!

• FAQ - general questions, sections about audio and control products

Troubleshooting

• USB problems
• RS485 Termination
• WLAN Broadcast/Multicast - Problems using Broadcast over 802.11 WLAN infrastructure

Products

Barix Audio Devices and Accessories

• Exstreamer 100 - General Purpose Network Audio Decoder
• Exstreamer 110 - Network Audio Decoder with advanced features
• Exstreamer 200 - Network Audio Decoder with built-in 2x25W class-D amplifier
• Exstreamer 1000 - High Quality Network Audio Encoder/Decoder with symmetric Audio interfaces and AES/EBU
• Instreamer 100 - General Purpose Network Audio Encoder
• Annuncicom 100 - General Purpose Bidirectional Network Audio Device with I/O
• Annuncicom 200 - Network Audio Device suitable for intercom/paging applications with 8W output amplifier and PoE
• Annuncicom 1000 - High End Network Audio Device for transport, industrial, security applications with balanced audio interfaces and supervised contact closures

• IPAM 100- Embedded IP audio module for OEM with dual network and multiple serial interfaces

• PS16 - Multifunctional digital desktop paging station PS16
• VSC - Volume Source Control accessory

Barix Control Devices and accessories

• Barionet - General Purpose IP Automation Controller with SNMP and Modbus/TCP support, fully programmable. Various I/O capabilities
• Barionet 50 - Low Cost IP Automation Controller with contact closure inputs, relay outputs, serial ports and Dallas Onewire interface
• Barionet 200 - Advanced IP Automation Controller with 16bit analog inputs, analog outputs, RTC and USB flash drive support

• Defconlock - This is an application specific Barionet, preloaded with an Access Control application (app also separately downloadable)
• Barix TS - onewire temperature sensors

• Barix X8 - multipurpose RS-485 I/O Interface

Some useful links how to use the Wiki

Consult the User's Guide for information on using the wiki software.

Getting started

• Configuration settings list
• MediaWiki FAQ
• MediaWiki release mailing list