Re: A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please

[ian.bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Very nice too but I would never get it past the missus. I am not even sure=
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she will go for the current plan of relatively small stainless steel units=
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about 5" by 7" with a screen the size of a credit card and
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buttons. Plan is though to have lots of these in the house running=20
different menu systems and reacting differently to Ethernet traffic.=20
Current estimate is 6 units plus one modified to act as a heating=20
thermostat to replace my ailing TX15B.

Personally I like non PC reliant solutions where possible although I
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it difficult to get rid of them completely.

The little screen is lovely - what was the total cost assuming buy it
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at 150 quid? Were you hit for VAT or import tax etc?

Thanks

Ian






"John Andrews" <groups@xxxxxxx>
12/11/2004 17:40
Please respond to ukha_d

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Ian

I went for a different approach:

First a 8inch touch screen for =A3149 (touch screen is USB) - item new and
1024 x 768
Second a USB2 to VGA convertor and ran it as a third / fourth monitor of=20
my
main server (cost $89)

So it does not really cost that much, and a much simpler approach.

Links:
LCD 8" touchscreen: http://tinyurl.com/6tstu
See2 USB2: http://tinyurl.com/4bwkn

Tech: USB2 can be taken to 5 metres without issue, then you need=20
extenders.


----- Original Message -----=20
From: <ian.bird@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 10:23 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] A quick Ethernet/Wireless straw poll please


>
> Hi everyone
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> I am building an HA touch screen controller for wall mounting which
will
> have an Ethernet interface for communication to the rest of the world.
> This will run a menu system which will send text based messages over
> Ethernet e.g. xAP, xPL, home-brew etc. + a lot more functionality.
> Currently this has a simple 10Mbit CAT5 interface.
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> Now, my questions are........
> 1) If you were going to use one of these systems how highly would
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rate
> a wireless 802.11b interface?
> 2) Since the hardware to make this a reality costs money what would
you
> think is a reasonable extra amount to pay for wireless? A finger in
the
> wind guess would be about 80 pounds extra (on top of the original
units
> estimated price) for the wireless versions. If I do fit wireless I
would
> not produce a non wireless version as supporting two interfaces would
be
> too expensive and complicated.
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> If I did go wireless my units would have a 10/100 wired CAT5
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OR
> wireless 802.11b (but not both at the same time). This would be
software
> configurable somehow.
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> Opinions or thoughts folks?
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> Ian
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