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RE: Displays around the house - volunteers please?


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  • Subject: RE: Displays around the house - volunteers please?
  • From: "Dr John Tankard" <john@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 18:17:11 +0100
  • Mailing-list: list ukha_d@xxxxxxx; contact ukha_d-owner@xxxxxxx
  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

If it flys you can put me down, for 9 as I already have this working
well, I also have a RTOS which makes it sing and dance

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Harrison [mailto:Mark.Harrison@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 August 2002 17:51
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx > Subject: [ukha_d] Displays around the house - volunteers please?
>
>
> Robert,
>
> Good summary....
>
> OK - let's ask for some volunteers, using my traditional
> technique of naming the "dream team" and seeing if they'll agree :-)
>
> 1) Try to agree on a simple display which has the features
> most of us would like.  Thinking of cost, size, VFD/LCD,
> interface electronics
>
> - Stuart Poulton, can you lead this?
>
> 2) Find a way of mount the display in some sort of nice SWMBO
> approved panel
>
> - Stuart? You again? Quinten "the stand king"?
>
> 3) Connect the display using serial (if thats what the
> display has) to your PC.  You can use your existing CAT5
> leads for this.
>
> - Ian Bird? Can I twist your arm?
>
> 4) Develop some simple software to display "hello world" messages
>
> - Stuart, I think you have most of this already?
>
> 5) Roll out to a few more members possible as part of a
> limited bulk buy
>
> - watch this space
>
> 6) Enhance what the display displays!
>
> - Mark Harrison, Andy Powell, Graham Howe and Patrick
> Lidstone probably have some code handy :-)
> - Patrick and I probably have code for "IP port listener" for
> most O/Ss between us.
> - Patrick and I probably have some "IP port broadcaster" code
> for most O/Ss between us.
> - Andy Powell - some Windows Homevision code?
> - Graham - could you add a "broadcast this port" option to
> HomeAutomator if I give you some source code?
>
> 7) Add a simple keypad to the display
>
> - later phase
>
> 8) Develop code to make use of this, menu systems etc.
>
> - Home Automator input plugin????
>
> 9) Consider adding a new board to interface the Displays
> serial interface to TCP/IP, possibly with local inteligence
> if available for zero cost.
>
> ---- Whoah - beyond me, squire :-)

>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Chasmer [mailto:robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 13 August 2002 11:07
> To: 'ukha_d@xxxxxxx'
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Displays round the house - architecture...
>
>
> Ian Lowe [mailto:ian@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> > But realistically, as soon as I see the passion for IP, I
> think it's
> > basically doomed. Using TCP-IP seems to wipe out all of the low-end
> > (ie cheap) PICs, and takes you into ?50 module country, plus anoher
> > healthy chunk for the display.
>
> To keep the project alive we need to break it down into
> smaller bits.  This way more than one of us can actually
> start to build these, start using them at home, then look to
> the future together.  I guess I start of with a very simple
> device in one room, and if it worked well, start thinking of
> expanding.
>
> I know I'm repeating what others have said, but lets try to
> keep within the realms of reality.  The cheaper the project
> starts out the more people involved, and the less damage if
> the project goes to the dogs.
>
> Maybe as a start
> 1) Try to agree on a simple display which has the features
> most of us would like.  Thinking of cost, size, VFD/LCD,
> interface electronics
> 2) Find a way of mount the display in some sort of nice SWMBO
> approved panel
> 3) Connect the display using serial (if thats what the
> display has) to your PC.  You can use your existing CAT5
> leads for this.
> 4) Develop some simple software to display "hello world" messages
> 5) Roll out to a few more members possible as part of a
> limited bulk buy
> 6) Enhance what the display displays!
> 7) Add a simple keypad to the display
> 8) Develop code to make use of this, menu systems etc.
> 9) Consider adding a new board to interface the Displays
> serial interface to TCP/IP, possibly with local inteligence
> if available for zero cost.
>
>
> Like the IR project this started very simply
> * We had a circuit design that allowed us to recieve and
> transmit the same signal in another room.
> * Several members of the group then built these on
> breadboards and they worked.
> * Next up someone designed and built simple PCBs people could use.
> * We built or own modules, and boxed them up ourselves
> * End result several list members have simple IR distribution.
>
> Looking to the future these have been geting enhanced by
> various list members for things like Zoned IR control, PC IR
> control etc.
>
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