Re: Displays and those messages....

[Patrick Lidstone]

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"Ian B" <Ian@M...> wrote:
> Yes, forget to mention but I have been chatting with Stuart P as
well and he
> put me onto these screens. If the pictures are anything to go be
they are
> gorgeous. I am working to get one to play with soon. I can see we
will have
> more discussions over the coming months.

I seem to have missed the start of this thread - can someone point me
to a URL?

> I could build IR in but won't yet as this will be a spin off from
another
> project.

I have got IR send and receive working in a limited capacity with my
20x4 VFD displays using a rabbit - it's not really a cost effective
way to go though, and I'm now beginning to think that a display +
zoned IR distribution from Node 0 might be a better bet. So long as
you don't need/want to redistribute the original signal, but only
perform an action, the IrMan interface is a very quick and easy route.

I've built menuing into the display driver, and it currently allows
only for static choices. Getting the UI element right will be
interesting - Harmony makes a great job of IR friendly control, and
I'd like to "borrow" some of their approaches. I suspect that for
my
needs, the menu structure itself doesn't need to be terribly dynamic -
the ability to substitute values from the cache (e.g. current
temperature setpoint) into a formated menu item, and then map a menu
choice to a message template should be enough - plus some simple
widgets to allow up/down/choice selection...

Patrick