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RE: Displays around the house - volunteers please?


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  • Subject: RE: Displays around the house - volunteers please?
  • From: "Ian B" <Ian@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 20:19:55 +0100
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  • Reply-to: ukha_d@xxxxxxx

Count me in

Ian B

>-----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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