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Re: Touchscreen Ideas
marcrfuller wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> I'm after some ideas. I have a 15" touchscreen monitor that I
would
> like to utilise in the house for Mainlobby/Home Automation. Now, I've
> got the interface sorted and it's all coming together nicely. My
> problem is I have no idea what to do about actually running the
screen.
>
> I thought of having a small laptop (Dell D410) hidden somewhere to
> drive it. This would use wireless to talk to the network so would only
> need power.. not bad, but I am worried about having a laptop running
> 24/7 hidden away somewhere (heat, fire regs etc).
>
> The second idea was to use a remote KVM extender, but the ones that
> carry serial as well as VGA are very expensive and I am on a damn
> tight budget.
>
> How are others doing this ? I'd love to hear your ideas, solutions !
>
You should be able to carry serial over a pair in a cat5 - you do have a
spare at that location ? ;-)
Nick.
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