Pulse-Eight
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| Founded | 2010 |
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| Headquarters | Poole, Dorset, United Kingdom |
Key people | Martin Ellis (Managing Director)[1] |
| Products | Set-top boxes, Remote controls, Computer hardware and Peripherals |
| Website | www.pulse-eight.com |
Pulse-Eight Limited (Pulse-Eight) is a hardware designer and manufacturer based in the United Kingdom producing consumer electronics for the home entertainment and custom install industry.[2] Pulse-Eight designs, manufactures and retails bespoke hardware solutions primarily designed for Kodi (Media Centre) software.[3][4] On 22 October 2012, it was reported that Pulse-Eight had bought the TVonics brand and the technology behind TVonics DVRs from TVonics Solutions Limited who had collapsed into administration in June 2012.[5][6]
Hardware products
Pulse-Eight's first major product line was a remote control, dubbed "Nyxboard Hybrid", made by Motorola designed for use within XBMC (now Kodi)[7][8] and other Media Center software packages, a custom HTPC set-top-box pre-installed with XBMC that they call "PulseBox",[9][10] and a USB and HDMI CEC Adapter designed in-house[11][12][13] with additional smaller lines utilising components from ZOTAC.
Video Matrixes
Since 2012 Pulse-Eight has focused on developing video matrixes via an ODM model, their principle customer was HDanywhere, developing a Modular solution that won numerous awards[14] however since 2015 these products have been made available under the Pulse-Eight brand[15]
Software products
PulseOS
Pulse-Eight used to offer a performance tuned free and open source embedded operating system that they call "PulseOS" designed to run on their PulseBox hardware platform, however since the discontinuation of their dedicated hardware the software enhancements have been merged with the main Kodi codebase
libCEC
libCEC is an enabling platform for the CEC bus in HDMI, it allows developers to interact with other HDMI devices without having to worry about the communication overhead, handshaking, and the various ways of sending a message for each vendor, this software is free and open source available from github[16]
See also
References
- ↑
- ↑ Contact Us, Pulse-Eight
- ↑ Engadget - Motorola NYXboard surfaces from the dead, XBMC reclaims it (update)
- ↑ Tested - Motorola Made XBMC Remote Now Available for Presale
- ↑ http://www.reghardware.com/2012/10/22/pulse_eight_acquires_tvonics_brand_for_xbmc_box/ XBMC coders acquire TVonics brand
- ↑ http://www.reghardware.com/2012/06/27/administrator_looking_to_sell_off_tvonics_kit/ Administrator eyes DVR firesale after TVonics collapse
- ↑ Engadget - Motorola NYXboard surfaces from the dead, XBMC reclaims it (update)
- ↑ Tested - Motorola Made XBMC Remote Now Available for Presale
- ↑ PulseBox out 10 October
- ↑ PulseBox - XBMC based Home Theatre PC Home Theatre Redefined
- ↑ http://www.anandtech.com/show/5463/pulseeight-usb-cec-adapter-review Pulse-Eight USB CEC Adapter Review
- ↑ The USB-CEC Adapter is a look into the Future
- ↑ USB – CEC Adaptor, 2011/08/20
- ↑ http://www.cepro.com/article/multi_award-winning_british_brand_of_hdmi_video_matrices_launch_in_u_s/
- ↑ https://www.pulse-eight.com/p/155/neo4-professional-hdbaset-video-matrix-with-poh-receivers
- ↑ https://github.com/Pulse-Eight/libcec