RE: Displays round the house.

[Chris Langridge <chrisl@xxxxxxx>]

This is an interesting thread. So here's my 2 cents.

TCP/IP over CAT 5 has gotta be the way to go. Here's the reasoning:

Many of us have got CAT5 in the walls already. For example on my rewire
I
have been dumping cat 5 at every light switch "just in case".
Simply put -
in wall CAT5 runs are by far the most common.

TCP/IP implies a certain ability to 'plug and play'. If we wanna get this
in
broad use then we need to take the same pathway that Keith did for KAT5
and
allow this to be part of something bigger (ie IP).

Chris


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:swp@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 12 August 2002 16:48
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Displays round the house.
>
>
> 
>> A whole project in itself.  The trick will be in making a
>display/control
>> look like part of the house.  First stage, make a device 
>that is just a
>> display which can be controled from a PC.  Next add feedback
>to the display,
>> eg a few buttons, which get sent as mesages along the same 
>serial line (I
>> notice some displays have keypad interfaces).  If this was
>interfaced to a
>> PC, I pressume you'd need a serial port for each device. 
>Any takers?  I
>> plan to get the barcode project out of the way before I take 
>on any other
>> projects
>
>Yep, it's a project that I'm already looking at, but with the
>possibility of removing the serial, and replacing with TCP/IP.
>
>As Mark, has said, lets establish exaclty what we want it too do,
and
>how we want to do it should follow later.
>
>Regards
>
>Stuart
>
>
>
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