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Extra Vegetables launches 2-way Apple TV driver for Control4 Touchpanels and Remote Controls (21/12/2009)

Music in iTunes? It’s now available via Control4!

A full 2-way Control4 driver for Apple TV is now available from Extra Vegetables, the leading on-line supplier of home automation interfaces and drivers.

Many clients have all their music stored in iTunes and want to access it via their Control4 remotes, touch panels and on-screen displays. By providing a 2-way interface with an Apple TV connected to an iTunes account this is now possible. Music stored in iTunes can now be selected directly on the Control4 touchpanels and remote controls – it is no longer necessary to turn on the TV or computer.

The driver is ready to load into a Control4 project and does not require any modifications or hacks on the Apple TV.

‘Up to now the only way of easily accessing DRM and non-DRM AAC music with Control4 has been via an iPod and iPod dock’ comments Jane Scotland, Head of Marketing at Extra Vegetables. ‘Having to load music onto an iPod to play it at home is cumbersome given that the music is already sitting on iTunes. By using an Apple TV and the Extra Vegetables driver the integration into the Control4 interface is seamless. Clients can rip music in iTunes or buy tracks from the iTunes store and enjoy them in every room immediately. It makes setting up a system so much quicker as it is no longer necessary to reformat or convert your client’s existing iTunes library.’

The Control4 Driverworks driver for Apple TV is now available from the Extra Vegetables web site

www.extravegetables.com