RE: Cheap Control Panels ?

["Marcus Warrington" <marcusw@xxxxxxx>]

One problem.. cost!

15 of those would cost me over =A35K.. that definitely wouldn't
get SWMBO approval !

I also wanted the touchscreen in each room to be a simple
display device, rather than a controller. I'd rather keep
things centralised in node0

Marcus

-----Original Message-----
   Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 22:40:09 +0100
   From: "Amar Nagi" <amar@xxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: Cheap Control Panels ?

Try the leopard touch screen

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcus Warrington [mailto:marcusw@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 31 July 2002 18:16
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Cheap Control Panels ?

I've been searching around trying to find some epods or fuji's
to act as "control" panels in each room. The idea being that
instead of installing volume controls/light switches and any
number of other local control devices I could have one "soft"
panel in each room that could act as a programmable interface
to all HA and Audio stuff. Also means that because the control
is central (i.e. the panels are just display devices) I could
have better control .. for example if someone left the volume
turned up in a different room I can turn it down/off from the
room I'm currently in, or have the HA server turn off and reset
the volumne in every room at midnight etc. Anyway the point is
can I find any touch sensitive panels.. no.. well not a cheap
enough price anyway. (I've got a maximum of 13 rooms and two
hallways to do.. so the cheaper the better !) I saw in Dixon's
today that they are selling some PalmTop handheld organiser/pc
for =A399 each...since it has a touch sensitive screen and
(presumably) is programmable, I wondered if it would be possible
to stuff one into a case to mount in the wall and use a piece of
cat5 as a simple serial cable back to node0..

..anybody ever done anything like this before ? any comments ?

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