RE: Displays round the house.

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxx>]

Mark,

I'd like to be able to display whatever I like. That's because whatever
I think I might like to display now, I'll have changed my mind by the
time I fix it to the wall. Then I'll change my mind again. I'd like it
to operate over TCP/IP so that I don't have to do any cabling. I'd like
the display itself to contain enough logic so that I can send simple
messages to it over the network from whatever operating system I
choose.
I'd specifically not want to set up a Linux machine to drive it (my
Linux server has 99% downtime - I only turn it on about every four
months!). I'd like the display to be available separately from any
software, so that I can write my own. I'd also really like to have two
or four buttons that can be read from software (or transmit their
state)
- though I appreciate that this is currently 'out of scope'.

I really should get off my backside and build one myself, but since
you're offering ;-)

Regards,
Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 12 August 2002 10:22
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [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.
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