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| Remote Control more Mobile Friendly! |
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The Web Control Application for Fusion Control Centre Uber MDX Edition has been updated to be mobile friendly. No graphics, and a pure and simple HTML interface make this mobile interface easily accessible to anyone with an internet connected phone! Of course there is a link to the full version as well if you are defaulted to the mobile page and want to use the full version.
As a warning though, the full version contains lots of graphics and behind the scenes coding will make frequent internet queries so we recommend a large data plan for bandwidth and a smartphone to render the pages correctly. |
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| Remote Control back online |
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We are in the processes of upgrading the remote control interface. One of the newest things is that we added a new link to it: http://remote.fusioncontrolcentre.com
We also are adding support for the Version 4 Fusion Brain graphically. It should be ready shortly! |
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| News Section Back Online |
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| After some major code changes... |
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Hello everyone, we have made some major changes to the News section of the website. After being down for the better part of a year, we have started it back up again. This will be a good place to look for the newest product announcements, cool projects, and software update announcements.
Thanks for looking!
-- Nick
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| Configurator and COM Control |
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| Now Available |
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| You can now edit the COM commands through the Configurator and you no longer need to do it manually. |
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| $35 Fusion Brain Sale |
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| Pre-Turkey Day Madness |
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| What more could you want for only $35?! If you wait, you lose, that simple. Sale lasts 3 days, only! |
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| Update Available for Fusion Control Centre Uber MDX and the Updater |
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| MDX 3.1.0.559 and Version 3.1 of the MDX Updater |
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| The new updater is now compatible with this new version of MDX. An example of some things added are the switch statement so that you do not need individual greater than and less than logic statements. A good example of where this would be useful is for car steering wheel controls. 1 wire controls many different buttons, so a way to switch between them easily should be welcomed. |
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| Fusion Control Centre Uber MDX Speed Update |
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| Now with Threads and Timer Updates |
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This new version of MDX contains many changes. As I finalize them, I am posting about them to keep you informed.
The newest of which is multi-threading. The older versions of MDX and actually all previous Fusion Control Centre software relied on 1 main processing thread. Everything was done inside this one thread and that meant if performing the logic section took a really really long time, then it had to wait to read and write to the actual Fusion Brain, and had to wait to update the graphic interface and everything. So the program may seem unresponsive but it is just doing things in the background. Well now the main thread runs the graphics, and there are seperate threads for reading to and from the Fusion Brain as well as a seperate thread to evaluate the logic.
Also, by doing this, when the thread is not in use, I now put it to sleep for a period of time, making it use almost 0% CPU when asleep. Now it only sleeps for a few milliseconds at a time (the intervals for the timers) but that is a few more milliseconds every loop that is not using the CPU. And this adds up as shown in the images.
Another change is that there are now only 3 timers. Logic, GUI, and IO. Input and Output now share the same timer/thread. This one you wont really notice as much, but now the outputs and inputs refresh the same.
Visit this post on MP3Car.com to get more information, details, and images of CPU usage before and after: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/fb-software/124490-fusion-control-centre-uber-mdx-now-threads-timer-updates.html |
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| Remote Control now available! |
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| Control your Fusion Brain and everything hooked up to it via the internet |
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That's right! You can now hook your Fusion Brain up to an internet connected PC (dial-up, phone tethering, cable, dsl, fiber optic, whatever) and control it anywhere in the world, anytime, through any internet enabled device. It is even optimizes itself for mobile phones!
The webpage never needs to "refresh" to update. It is all ajax run so it is seamless.
How it works is everytime you start MDX, if you web control enabled, it will send a little message to our servers (99.9% uptime) along with a security verification. When or if you login somehow with a user name and password as shown below (different from your store login and can be registered for free) it will look up the data the program has sent in. If there is a brain connected (or even being simulated in a Virtual Debug Brain) it will show you the basic control functions.
It shows you who you are, the last time your software phoned home with useful data, the remaining time until it tries to ping your software for an update, the time between these pings, configuration options to halt the updates, update now, or change the interval it updates. The interval that it tries to ping the computer for an update is user configurable and is stored permanently in a database. Switch computers, or even different sessions, you can change this to whatever and it will "stick".
And the main objective on the right is the remote brain complete with the id you gave it in your configuration file, the ports you have configured in your configuration file complete with their ids and the values registered as of the last update. In the picture below, this was for testing, so I was not very creative with my names.
It also shows all variables and their ids and values. So your analogue input may be 3v, but it is more useful to know that it is 80 degrees instead since you have a temp sensor installed there, which is what it does.
If you click update now, it will tell you it sent a message and at what time. If the last update time/date does not change, it is because no update was received. Either the program has been shut down remotely, connection dropped, or something. It will not falsely say "updated" when it has not been. So message sent, but nothing new received until it says so (which it always has in my tests).
Click the buttons to turn them on or off, and you will be greeted by the magic status images. The bar uptop shows that there is a pending command. Meaning you want something to be different than it is. Every update it will send what you want it to be and will continue to do so until what you want to happen, happens. Then the individual circular images show each output that will be updating with the command. Every update it will send out the command to turn those on or off. Note it does not automatically send an update to the program. Just click Update Now after toggling what you want to toggle, or wait until the next scheduled automatic update.
Also you can turn the automatic updating off all-together.
And finally when you logout when done as always. Settings and previous states are stored in the database for the next time you login.
Visit this post on MP3Car.com for more information: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/fb-software/123956-new-control-anything-anywhere-anytime-w-fusion-brain-da-interwebz.html |
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| Fusion Control Centre Software Updates |
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| MAJOR Part I |
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This is the first part of a series of major updates to Fusion Control Centre Uber MDX. Some of the things that are improved include: Speech Recognition, GDI+ Drawing Mode for basic computers, Scaling Images bug corrected, able to hide the splash screen, ACPI event hooks are now active, and advanced graphics resume from standby issue was fixed.
For more details visit this post on MP3Car.com: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/fb-software/122710-13-07-08-fusion-control-centre-software-updates-major-part-i.html |
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| Update Available for MDX Updater |
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| Version 2.3 |
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| This fixes a bug that effects versions 2.1 and 2.2. Everyone should download the new version 2.3 to fix the error. |
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| MDX Now Does Speech Recognition |
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| Control your Fusion Brain and everything hooked up to it by voice as well as get voice feedback on sensors |
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| Fusion Control Centre MDX now can recognize what you are saying and speak back to you! You can ask a question and Fusion Control Centre MDX will respond to you with the information you requested. Want to know the temperature outside? Just ask, "What is the outside temperature?" and the computer can respond "It is 26 degrees celcius today". All of these options are 100% user configurable. Also commands are interpretted by MDX now as well. Tell it to turn on different outputs through voice commands. Set selected outputs to specific names such as port 0 to "water cannon" and now you can say "Turn on water cannon" for it to work. If you dont want to say "Turn on", change it! You can change it to anything you want such as "Initialize", "Start", or "Penguin" if you wanted to. It is customizeable and uses Microsoft's SAPI engine for text to speech to work which is free and built into recent Windows operating systems. |
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| Proud new owners of www.FusionControlCenter.com now too |
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| United States rejoice! |
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We are now the proud owner of: www.FusionControlCenter.com in addition to the main site of www.FusionControlCentre.com
So now no matter what country you learned english in, you can get to the site easily. |
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| Fusion Brain new Schwag |
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| Digital Encoder Beta Test |
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Hello everyone. It is about that time of the year where we get some new schwag in.
I finished designing a digital encoder interface for the Fusion Brain last week, and have sent it off to be made. I have no idea if the fabbed version will work. Currently the only working version is built on a suitcase breadboard.
Anyways, this will interface any quadrature output rotary encoder to an analogue signal that the Fusion Brain can read. What does this mean?
Well a rotary encoder is a knob that can spin around and around and around and around and around and never stop. So most volume knobs on standard HU's, OEM HU's, home theatre boxes, ect... Currently we sell potentiometers, which are spin once type devices. They work well, but can get offsynced if you adjust them independantly. So this will overcome that.
They come in detented ones (cheaper, mechanical) and non detended ones (more expensive, and uses light through slots).
This interface has a header to go from board to the Fusion Brain, as well as a 3 pin header to go to the rotary encoder of your choice. We will stock 1 detented and 1 non-detented encoder and sell as a package option, as well as sell the board without an encoder. If you get it without the encoder, you can now interface the OEM style that came with your car most likely, or any encoder you want however fancy you want, or dont want. Freedom is yours.
So we are having 10 of them made. No idea how many will be faulty. Probably have 9 working when we get them in if I didnt screw up the layout, and 10 coasters if I messed up.
I will keep 2, Tim will keep 1 or 2 if he wants. The rest are for you guys. Who wants to test?
I would prefer to get 3 people with OEM knobs to try and interface and 3 with this being by itself.
So we would like to offer the beta boards at $12 encoder-less. $17 with an encoder.
For more information visit this thread on MP3Car.com: http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/fusion-brain/119666-fusion-brain-digital-encoder-beta-test.html |
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| Fusion Control Centre Source |
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| Yep, all of it! |
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Ok, here is the latest (as of 22/04/2008) source files for the main MDX program, the MDX Configurator, the MDX Updater, and the FusionUSB.dll that we use to talk with the Fusion Brain.
Everything is open source here!
This is the link to the directory where all sources will be stored: http://www.fusioncontrolcentre.com/MDX/Source/ |
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| 3-Day Midterm Madness Sale! |
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| Fusion Brain only $20! Crazy! |
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| Only until Monday, you save $45! Buy one now! |
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| Server Transfer |
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| Moving to a newer, faster, and more shiny server |
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We will be transfering our hosting to a new server this week and the website will experience delays, timeouts, or other unpredictable behaviour.
We are doing our best to minimize the effect, however there are inherent problems associated with transfers of entire sites that contain complex databases.
You may be unable to login to your account during portions of this week. If you need to place an order, or if you want an update to your current pending order, please email us at FusionControlCentre@gmail.com and we will try to help as soon as possible. If you need to download software, please email us and we will provide you with a direct link to download the file (although it may be hosted on a different site).
Our website contains gigabytes of information that is currently being transfered at an incredibly slow pace because of the bottlneck of our current host. This constant transfer which is expected to take 46 hours minimum will produce a significant strain on the current host, rendering our website almost unuseable for the next few days.
The good news is that our new server has a 99.9% uptime as well as supporting true secure connections eliminating fears some of out customers had with certificate problems on the current host. Our new host should make the website much faster, and allow us to server you better in the future.
Thankyou for understanding,
-- Nick
Fusion Control Centre |
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| Closeout Sale |
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| Fusion Brain Version 3 $22-$30 |
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Dont mind last year's model? Then pick yourself up a Fusion Brain version 3.
This is a first-come, first-serve sale. We have a limited stock, and they are all to go. We will NOT reserve one for you so dont send us PM's or emails asking us to. If you want one, order one. They will be gone fast.
Version 3 Semi-Defective Unit: $22.00 USD
Version 3 Fully Functional Unit: $30.00 USD
Once they are gone, they are gone forever. We will not be ordering any more from our manufacturer. Soon we will have shiny new Version 4's! |
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| Uber MDX Configurator |
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| We need beta testers |
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We are about to release Fusion Control Centre Uber MDX Configurator, but first we need a few people that can participate in a beta test of the software. It is much more robust than Version 2, but still we need to find any flaws. Use the "Contact Us" button at the top of the page if you are interested.
Thankyou,
-- Nick |
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| Upgrading Fusion Control Centre Website |
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| Timeouts/404's perhaps... |
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Just a quick announcement, I have been working behind the scenes for almost 3 months (well with other projects too ) getting a new look for the cookie cutter site, and I am now starting to merge the old with the new. In the meantime, there may be a few minutes here and there where you will get a 404 error or something because I am messing with the server, so just wait a minute or so and try again.
I am at the point where I can't really do it behind the scenes anymore because it needs to get the database content, so apologies in advance...
Hope you like the new look. Right now only the first few most common pages (index/product info) have been changed but it seems to work so far. |
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