RE: Electronic Wizards

["Ian Lowe" <ianlowe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Righty..

I wrote a wee gateway which accepts xPL OSD messages (used for general
display purposes) and pushes them out of the serial port.
It uses the formatting codes used by Noritake VFD devices to break the text
out onto lines. It has a couple of bugs which I need to get time to work
out
(sorry Frank!) but basically does the trick.

The serial port I use isn't an *actual* serial port, it's a Lantronix
MSS100
virtual port, which is connected to a set of Noritake VFD displays (at the
moment, three, but I have used up to five in the past).

My xPLHal server has a few different determinators (simple "if this
happens,
do this" type rules) set up to capture information from the xPL
network
(current track playing on the house audio, via a winamp plugin, caller ID,
state changes (so, when the nighttime macro fires, it sends a message).

There's plenty of howto info on the project Wiki:

http://wiki.xplproject.org.uk

Ian.


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From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Chris Miles
Sent: 20 September 2006 17:45
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Electronic Wizards



Could you give a little more information regarding this please?

Chris


----- Original Message -----
From: Ian Lowe
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx <mailto:ukha_d%40yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 1:12 AM
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Electronic Wizards

I do this to VFD displays, using an MSS100 to drive them (I just run the
RS232 TX wire to a bus block, then out over CAT5, rather than proper serial
to each display).

displays useful stuff from xPLHal server - current track playing, caller
ID,
that sort of thing.

Ian.






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