Intro

You can't accuse the engineers at Logisys of being uncreative. Their Phone Smart Keyboard that flashes when you receive a phone call was innovative, as is the 3D Edge fan kit. Logisys has come out with one more product that you won't find from other manufacturers, a wireless remote multi-function panel. The remote multi-function panel is still in pre-production, but it works pretty damn good for what it was designed to do. Do you need it? Probably not, but I'll lay odds that there is somebody out there who has been looking for a similar solution. If you keep your system under the desk or in a hard to reach corner, this multi-function panel will make powering up or resetting your PC much more convenient. As an added bonus, you can keep tabs on your temperatures, control fan speed, and plug in your firewire or USB peripherals. Just imagine the looks you would get at the next LAN party when when you whip out your remote and turn your computer on.

Package

The remote multi-function panel is still in pre-production status which I assume is the reason that the unit arrived in a white box with no graphics or printing on it. The contents were well protected in a plastic foam container and the cover has cutouts for the remote and antenna.

The antenna is able to twist 360 degrees and flexes from 0 to 90 degrees. It also extends out from it's 8 inch closed position to 15.75 inches when fully extended. The remote unit looks very similar to a car remote with the Red button functioning as the on/off and the Gray button as the reset. When a button is pressed on the remote, a red LED lights up and a corresponding light on the panel also lights to show it is receiving the signal.

The first bag-o-stuff contained a pass-through 20 pin ATX power connector with a 4 pin power connector that connects to the panel itself, connectors for the USB and firewire ports, a PCI card that the antenna hooks onto with a standard twist barrel connector, power and reset extension cables, and a couple of screws for mounting.

Another couple of clues that this is a pre-production unit is the solder job done on the back of the PCI card, it is completely exposed and not done very neatly. Also, Logisys informed me of a change they had to make to the ATX power in order for the panel to function correctly and sent me a new review unit with the ATX connector already modified. It was a cut and solder job wrapped with electrical tape.

The panel itself was enclosed in a plastic bag and included pair of 15 inch temperature probes labeled "CPU" and "Case" (just in case you couldn't keep them straight). The sensors themselves are not the flat type, they end in a small ball shape so you will be unable to actually get the sensors next to a CPU or GPU. There are 3 pages of instructions that do a pretty good job of explaining the installation and functions of the panel itself.