RE: Re: Displays round the house.

["Mark Harrison" <Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx>]

Stuart,

I know you are :-) I've been following the discussions about VFD for hamp3r
and that's what's prompted me to start thinking about other applications
for them.

- I'm not at the "detail designing a system" stage.

- I'm not even at the "suggesting that a few of us get together to
work on something" stage.

- I'm only at the "what would people on the list like to use such a
system for" stage.

I think that, with all the "I would like this system to do that"
debate that's been going on around other things, I'd try to kick this one
off with an open requirements debate.

I doubt very much that ALL the requirements will be delivered in version 1,
or even version 2 or 3 of the project, but getting an idea of the ultimate
scope would be useful at this stage, so a sufficiently open architecture
can be developed.

I have a rough idea on how this will fit together architecturally. I was
imagining a (probably Linux based in v.1, but platform-neutral later)
"Display Server" that would talk to the output devices over CAT5.
This server would have a published plugin architecture to allow it to
request information from other apps and/or those apps to request
"display space" from it.

The hard decisions are around designing the "plugin" architecture
to allow that to communicate with systems as diverse as HomeVision,
HomeSeer, Outlook, Exchange, a POP3 server, an IM server...

I don't think that anyone can make these decisions until we have a rough
idea of the creative scope of potential use.

The same applies to the size / resolution of the displays. Ideally, the
server will cope with multiple display sizes, and have some mechanism to
decouple the presentation logic from the application logic. However, until
we have an idea of what might be displayed, then I don't think we can
determine what sizes might be sensible.

Regards,

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:swp@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 August 2002 10:39
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Re: Displays round the house.


Hi All,

If it's high quality, visable across the room, then probably looking at
VFD's.

I'm currently talking to a UK VFD supplier about displays for use with
hamp3r.

Whats size display would you like, both physically, and in terms of
columns, and lines.

Stuart

> > With the ever-increasing cheapness of text-based displays
(high-
> quality ones
> > that can be read across a room!), and the fact that I'm sure we
can 
> all get
> > lots of information out of our HA controllers, I'm wondering
what
> > information SHOULD be displayed around the house.





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