RE: Displays round the house.

[Robert Chasmer <robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> 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

Do affordable programable displays like these actually exist? 
Personally
I'd like to find a simple cheap display that would fit niceley into a
single, possibly double sized UK blanking plate.

I finally managed to install my Lutron Graphic Eye light switch in the
lounge, which is fantastic.  But next to it I have the old light
switch
covered with a blanking plate.  I'd always intended to put some sort
of
display there, but haven't found anything suitable.  SWMBO is
suggesting I
fill/plaster over the whole, so I need do something quick.  Hell even
if I
could find a little display that just showed the temperature in the room
and
could fit it niceley into a single face plate that would be good.

Any URLs?

> I'm NOT proposing complex GUI displays, nor am I thinking in 
> terms of interactive menus - just a straight output display.

I think a proper graphical LCD screen would be way OTT, and probably
too
expensive to have in several rooms.  The size of the display I think
is
important, it should be subtle.  We might have a lot of info to
display but
if its too big it could be distracting, when not in use.  I'd like a
couple
of buttons on the display for control as well.

A couple of years ago I really liked the keypads that came with B&W's
Casa
system
(http://www.bwspeakers.com/products/gallery/photo_details.cfm?object_id=A163
38B3-3321-11D4-A67F00D0B7473B37), but the cost of the whole system and
its
reliance on other B&W kit put me off.

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