Re: CBus Toolkit

[Kevin Hawkins <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Hunter wrote:
> 'had to Google to find-out what DLT might mean ... if it's
>
> http://www.simplyautomate.co.uk/productdisplay.asp?prodid=7323
>
> could be quite handy ... wonder if such a thing ... could be
> contrived for Idratek ?
>
> 'couldn't quite work out from the spec', could the display more than
> just text - eg: weather-map, front-door video, etc ... ie: low
> bandwidth images, images with low update rates ... not sure 64x128
> pixels would be quite enough, though ... ??
>
>
The DLT's are really nice :-) super design and lots of faceplate
variants.  There's some better pictures here
http://www2.clipsal.com/cis/technical/product_groups/cbus/input_units/lcd_switches

Re the display capabilities they are a bit mapped display and can
therefore handle images as well , and have sliders on them that move
with brightness etc, clocks etc.
The display is intended to be horizontally divided into areas , one for
each of the buttons and the text/graphic is stored locally such that
after a power recovery , should it happen, they display correctly. As
such labelling rather than frequently changing data is the purpose.
They are used by Clipsals multi room system to select/display audio info
etc.

Contriving a system so these would work with Idratek would be very
difficult.

PG's installed almost the entire UK stock of them ;-).

K