RE: Re: Displays and those messages....

[Ian B]

It was an offshoot from the news and weather messages and displaying them.
As soon as I have one of the displays I will post details. Stuart P has
more
in the short term

Ian

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"Ian B" <Ian@M...> wrote:
>> Yes, forget to mention but I have been chatting with Stuart P as
>well and he
>> put me onto these screens. If the pictures are anything to go be
>they are
>> gorgeous. I am working to get one to play with soon. I can see we
>will have
>> more discussions over the coming months.
>
>I seem to have missed the start of this thread - can someone point me
>to a URL?
>
>> I could build IR in but won't yet as this will be a spin off from
>another
>> project.
>
>I have got IR send and receive working in a limited capacity with my
>20x4 VFD displays using a rabbit - it's not really a cost effective
>way to go though, and I'm now beginning to think that a display +
>zoned IR distribution from Node 0 might be a better bet. So long as
>you don't need/want to redistribute the original signal, but only
>perform an action, the IrMan interface is a very quick and easy route.
>
>I've built menuing into the display driver, and it currently allows
>only for static choices. Getting the UI element right will be
>interesting - Harmony makes a great job of IR friendly control, and
>I'd like to "borrow" some of their approaches. I suspect that
for my
>needs, the menu structure itself doesn't need to be terribly dynamic -
> the ability to substitute values from the cache (e.g. current
>temperature setpoint) into a formated menu item, and then map a menu
>choice to a message template should be enough - plus some simple
>widgets to allow up/down/choice selection...
>
>Patrick
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