Chipmunk AV Controller is a .NET application capable of controlling audio visual equipment, home cinemas and performing general automation tasks. Chipmunk enables the easy creation of macros and commands to control devices via plugins. Chipmunk can also receive incoming events from equipment. Chipmunk incorporates a Lua scripting engine which has been integrated with Microsoft's .NET Framework, enabling users to interact with and extend core functionality. A simple plugin API & SDK makes it easy for .NET developers to create their own plugins using any .NET language such as VB.NET or C#.

Version 2 targets the latest Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework and comes with an improved user interface, logging manager, and new plugins. The new logging manager means that Chipmunk can now log incoming events, outgoing commands, and system status messages. The Plugin SDK has been simplified making plugin development even easier. Chipmunk now comes with twelve plugins pre-installed:

* RS232 Serial - for bidrectional serial communication
* USB-UIRT & RedRat3 Infrared - for receiving, transmitting and learning IR commands
* Global Cache GC-100 - for RS232, IR, Relay, and digital sensor input control
* Web Server - for controlling Chipmunk from a web browser. Supports Lua Server Pages.
* Time Scheduler - for periodic, daily, weekly, and monthly scheduling of events
* Remote Control Server - for running software remote controls over wireless networks
* X10 CM17A Firecracker - for sending on/off/dim/brighten commands via X-10
* On Screen Display - for displaying HTML or plain text messages
* TCP Server and Client - for connecting to TCP network services
* Application Controller

Chipmunk also comes with a drag-and-drop remote control designer, universal software remote control for the Desktop and Pocket PC, and sample plugin source code for developers. To coincide with this release, we have also launched Chipmunk AV Controller Forums at www.chipmunkav.com/forums/.