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RE: Running multiple touchscreens from one PC


  • Subject: RE: Running multiple touchscreens from one PC
  • From: "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 19:13:06 -0000


Looks interesting John - can you connect more than one see2 to a single PC?

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Andrews [mailto:groups@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 15 November 2004 18:46
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Running multiple touchscreens from one PC
>
>
> Paul
>
> I'm doing just that (USB to VGA), do a search for see2 in google.
>
> I imported one from provantage and if someone was doing a bulk buy,
would
> probably buy another.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Gordon" <paul@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 4:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Running multiple touchscreens from one PC
>
>
> >
> > I do remember reading earlier in the year that it is possible
with a reg
> > hack to increase the number of remote desktop sessions available
in
> > Windows XP. I recall reading that one poster claimed to have 5
RDP
> > sessions running concurrently with no problems... That would
probably be
> > a viable option, but one would of course have to have a PC as
well as
> > the screen in the remote locations....
> >
> > Another thought has occurred to me.... Aren't there USB-VGA
adapters
> > available? - I'm sure I've seen these advertised in the past...
(could
> > be thinking of something else though)...
> >
> > Paul G.
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Gareth Cook [mailto:g@xxxxxxx]
> > > Sent: 15 November 2004 16:04
> > > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > > Subject: Fw: [ukha_d] Running multiple touchscreens from one
PC
> > >
> > >
> > > Similar to what I want. I would like whole house audio
control (via
> > > browser) with all the amplification and switching done in
N0. Speakers
> > in
> > > each room go back to N0.
> > >
> > > Or the touchscreen (7" etc) as you state. Not seen
anything suitable
> > so
> > > far.
> > >
> > > G.
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Forwarded by Gareth Cook/UK/IBM on 15/11/2004 15:56
-----
> > > "Paul Gale" <groups@xxxxxxx>
> > > Today 15:50
> > >
> > > .
> > > Subject:
> > > .
> > > [ukha_d] Running multiple touchscreens from one PC
> > > .
> > > Category:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Just mulling over the ways to get touch screens in a number
of rooms
> > cost
> > > effectively. Is anyone running two or more touch screens (of
the type
> > you
> > > fit in a car etc) from a single PC with multiple interfaces?
> > >
> > > I?d probably want to run something like MainLobby or my own
custom
> > > application (designed in Director) on each and connecting to
> > > ACE/Homevision/Comfort at the back end.
> > >
> > > I guess there are a few options like:
> > >
> > > *                Terminal services
> > > *                Multiple dual head graphics cards in the PC
> > > *                Multi session software (don?t know what
this is
> > called
> > > but I?ve seen something before ? allows several instances of
Windows
> > to
> > > run from one PC)
> > >
> > > I guess the multi graphic card option is easy to setup but
may be a
> > bit
> > > flakey to get the right app running on the right screen?
> > >
> > > With the terminal services option ? what?s the minimum extra
hardware
> > I
> > > would need at each screen?
> > >
> > > Anyone got any other ideas?
> > >
> > > Paul.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
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