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[surge]

Anybody have a way to easily turn on or off your amplifiers remotely?  The solutions I know about are either too complicated, such as automation software networked to the global-cache 100, or too expensive, such swapping the amps for others that are more than $2000 (and why do we have to pay $2000 for a 'receiver' amplifier, that will play remote sound like DLNA rendering?).  The dirty way of doing this is to have IR receivers in various places wired to the closet rack IR emitters.  But I am hoping for a wifi remote method controlled from the laptop, rather than from an IR remote and wires.  Any ideas?

I exclusively use MediaCenter to control music playback, outputting to a remote sound renderer (usually the Linksys Wireless Music Bridge, but also a couple Roku Soundbridges).  The amplifiers are in a closet where all the speaker wires are terminated too.  I hate having to go up to the closet rack to turn on the amps.  I used to have a dedicated htpc in there, but now only have a NAS. 

[gvanbrunt]

This might work. Wifi to IR...

http://www.globalcache.com/

[surge]

Thanks.  I was hoping for a solution that maybe included globalcache hardware but not thousands of dollars in software...

[Messiahs]

Take a look to this:
http://www.irtrans.com/en/index.php

or do you have a Onkyo amp? Onkyo provides a ISCP protocol based on TCP/IP and i'm already playing with this feature to control my amp...

[benn600]

The Denon receiver I use has an ethernet interface which offers a variety of controls to adjust about anything.