[AG-TECH] projector control ?

[Christoph Willing]

Andrew Daviel wrote:

>I wondered if anyone had worked on projector control over RS232 ?
>(or for that matter, camera control)
>
>We have a couple of Hitachi SXGA projectors and a Sony XGA. It would be
>nice to have an application which could power them all up and select the 
>correct inputs when starting AG. (we use other inputs for a Polycom
>Viewstation, digital presnter, table laptop etc.)
>
>I suspect I'd have to get USB to serial adapters as there's only one 
>serial port and I'm using it for Sony EVI-D camera control (the software I 
>
[snip]


For the exact same reason (need for more serial ports), we've purchased 
a MOXA brand C104HS/PCI board - a single PCI card with 4 additional 
serial ports. Its has drivers for both Linux & Windows. We haven't had 
time to actually work on the control software yet.

chris


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