RE: Displays round the house.

["Kevin Hawkins" <lists@xxxxxxx>]

    The SliMP3 display is great in this respect - it has a udp based protocol that is fully published if you want to get at it directly including all the display controller functions e.g. programmable character generator. There is also an http based api that allows you to send characters to the top or bottom line of the display and have them displayed automatically for a stated length of time. This is much easier to use as the display is then maintained by the SliMP3 server so it can run at the same time. I use this for caller display and also 'urgent' email notification - if I ever got one ;) - first in on the JVC TV buy option would have been great ! The Audiotron display is also accessible similarly.

    I have also attached a SitePlayer module directly to a serial based lcd display which makes the display an http addressable device. The SitePlayer is ideal for this as it is so low cost $30. It also supports udp if you prefer. It is not the easiest of devices to recover data back from (bi-directional serial i/o) but in terms of just sending data to say an lcd it works well straight out the box - no heavy coding needed. The SitePlayer could be used to address multiple displays too as someone has suggested.

   

    Kevin

 

 -----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Livingstone [mailto:anto@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 August 2002 11:36
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject: RE: [ukha_d] Displays round the house.

> Haven't
> looked into it so don't know if this is possible...
> But I was hoping it
> would be possible to do something like this with the
> SLiMP3.
> Nice big
> VFD display connected by Ethernet sitting in the living room
> doing
> nothing
> most of the time...
> Anyone know if it's possible to trigger evens on the
> display from say
> Homeseer?
>
> Anto.
>
> -----Original
> Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 12 August 2002 10:22
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxxSubject:
> [ukha_d] Displays round the house.
>
>
> 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.
>
> - External temperature? 
> - Temperature in the
> room
> in question?
> - Time?
> - "There's someone at the door"
> - "Phone
> Ringing: It's Bob"
>
> Any other ideas?
> What are the things we'd all
> like to know "at a glance".
>
> I'm NOT proposing complex GUI displays,
> nor
> am I thinking in terms of
> interactive menus - just a straight output
> display.
>
> M.
>
>
>
>
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