Re: LCD w/touch

["John, SW Missouri" <jmjones@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I've looked at the 3400 several times on eBay.  The only thing that
held me back was I have no idea how to make it work with my HA system.


If the Smarthome has no backlight - no wonder it's so cheap - I
wouldn't use it myself.

I don't know that I really need a touch screen, but it is nice to have
an LCD display.  Some months back I was using a 4x20 bright blue
backlit serial LCD from Peter Anderson to display various messages from
my Homevision controller.  I have 5 Elk keypads in the house and I can
send various text messages to them by the M1G which could be triggered
by a serial message from HV.  These are only 2 lines by maybe 23
characters.

I have a Universal Remote MX3000 which I "intend" to use for HA was
well as as a TV remote once I get HV back in service.  This can do all
my lighting/security control and the wife has adapted to it - which
isn't always easy to get her to do ;-(

I also have a ADI Leopard touchscreen which was in use prior to the
storm.  When I find the box it's in I think I'll give that another go
as well.  Obviously the 3400 can do everything a serial LCD and the
Leopard can do, plus run software like Homeseer to boot.

Most of the 3400s I'm seeing on eBay come with no OS or Windows 2000.
What option do you have to replace the OS if necessary - most do not
include a cdr IIRC.

John



Robert Green wrote:

>
> But AFAICT, it's neither color nor backlight, and that's going to really
> limit its overall usefulness.  I'm using a Fujitsu 3400 Stylistic tablet PC
> for a test of a wall-mounted touch screen interface.  The horsepower behind
> that display and built in networking (well, sort of) make it a far different
> animal, programming wise, from the new Smarthome screen but it costs twice
> as much to buy and must consume far more electricity that the new LCD.
>
> On the other hand, the Stylistic is brightly backlit and full color and can
> be used to automate anything that presents a mouse-clickable button on the
> screen and as long as I don't bite my fingernails, I can use it quite easily
> without a stylus.
>