Re: Multiple Screens, One Computer

["Tech-Home" <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dean is very active and responsive to his customers. This is where
Homeseer is lacking as it lets is user base support customers.

Both products are coming out with new releases that are supposed to be
much better. Charmed is going to add more for Home Automation. Homeseer
is under a complete rewrite. I'll bet Charmed will be out first.

I do own both but mainly use Homeseer because of the Way2Call and Web
Interface. But I'm finding myself moving everything over to the Elk M1.
I don't use any touch screens. I didn't find a viewsonic 1000 very
feasible in my setup. It was nosiy and bulky. The in car screens do
look nice and I may look more into these when I remodel my kitchen.

I tell everyone to try them both out because not one suits everyones
needs the best.

Brian
http://tech-home.com



Mick wrote:
> I have been playing with CQC for close to a month now and I am liking
> it.  Dean is very active in the forums and responds quickly to problems
> requests.  Just the other day I asked about a time and within the day he
> wrote a driver for 16 timers, cant ask for better response than that.
>
> One caveat - If you use CQC on multiple screens, you cant use the screen
> blanker on the second monitor.  I do my screen design and testing on a
> dual head system with the design on the promary and the viewer
> (interface) on the secondary screen.  Hitting the power button (my term
> for activating the screen blanker) will blank the primary but not the
> secondary.
>
> As for your USB touchscreen questions
>
> I have no experience with them - sorry, but if you had two touch screens
> installed your desktop is effectively 8:3 or 4:6 depending on your
> orientation (maybe en=ven staggered as windows allows this).  The driver
> I expect would need to know where the second screen is in relation to
> the first, unless that is built in to windows.
>
> Sorry I cant help, just trying to shed some light on how things go together
>
> Mick
>
> E. Lee Dickinson wrote:
> > A few questions in this thread. The first:
> >
> > I've been reading Dean R.'s posts about Charmed Quark, and I think I'm
> > leaning that way. Both because the software looks great, and because the
> > developer is obviously very active in the HA community.  But I would like
> > some opinions of the strengths and weaknesses of CQC vs. HomeSeer?
> >
> > The real question of this thread, though:
> >
> > 8" touchscreens for the automotive market are flooding Ebay for between 2
> > and 300 dollars (Unless someone has a line on a more economical screen?).
> > I've been thinking of a few of those -- kitchen, bedroom, living room.
> >
> > What I want to know is, will the USB touch screen drivers and either of the
> > software packages (above) allow me to use multiple screens with one PC?
> > HomeSeer seems to use a web interface, so I figure I could just open
> > multiple browsers, one on each video card. But then there's the question of
> > the touchscreen drivers. I've had mulitple (3) screens on my PC for years,
> > but never a touch screen?
> >
> > Am I making this more complicated than need me? I was thinking about some
> > Audreys as stand-alone interfaces, but the fact that so many people have
> > sold theirs and moved on to better interfaces makes me wary.
> >
> > Thanks for any answers, advice, and commentary.
> >
> >