[mythtv-users] Remote LCD/VFD display that works with MythTV?

[R. G. Newbury]

On 01/28/2010 08:44 PM, Nicolas Riendeau wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Geoff Newbury wrote:
>>> Essentially an external display that would be connected to a PC
>>> that's at least 10 feet from the display (Yep, I do have the special
>>> cables for that...).
>>>
>>>> but both of these connect by USB, so you could use an external case
>>>> (and power wart) with a long USB cable.
>>>
>>> The power, that's what I'm not sure about... Do I actually need to
>>> provide power to them or do they get it off the USB connector?
>>>
>
>
> OK, I've checked the manual and it looks like power MUST be provided to
> the display...
>
> Thing is, I don't know if it is safe to use two different power supplies
> to supply the voltages used by the display (the one it gets separately
> and from the USB port)... Could something in the display assume the
> power is supplied by only one power supply?

I also took a look at the manual. I don't think it would have a problem 
with getting power from effectively 2 sources. Firstly, the unit is not 
intended to be powered through USB and may not have the 5+ wire 
connected on the Veris end.

Secondly, it's only DC we're looking at and any problem would be a 
difference in ground potential between the wall wart/whatever powering 
your external 5.25" case and the ground level on the USB header of your 
computer.
Worst case, you could build a long 3 connector extender to extend the 
wires from the 24 pin adapter on your computer, to the box, thus 
extending the computer's ground potential to the external box. If you 
did that, you could also run wiring to splice into the power switch, so 
the unit would work as originally intended: you can use the remote to 
power the computer on and off!  That would be 10 wires, so a chunk of 
flat cable might to the trick, provided you don't mind soldering the 
needed end connectors, all of which would be internal.


>>> OK, now how did you know I would be interested in knowing their
>>> *Canadian* prices? (-;
>>>
>> I have T1 pipe hacked into the Echelon server Jim Flaherty has in his
>> basement in Oshawa. And now that I've told you that' I'll have to tell
>
> ROTFL...
>
>> you the truth.
>> Your teksavvy email address was a gimme!
>
> I figured it had to be something like that... I have more than one email
> address and I'm so used to using the one of my ISP for MythTV that I no
> longer think about it and the fact that it does give an idea of where I
> am from...

Well I don't know how many sites teksavvy has, but if you don't mind 
admitting that you live in Guelph I guess I shouldn't hold that against 
you too much, ya loser.


>> It was at Canada Computers although TigerDirect may carry them too.
>
> NCIX appears to have them too but the product description comes directly
> from a supplier database and is actually quite incomplete... I did look
> up the part number though and it does look like it's the right part (at
> around $70 and it even has a PP price...).

That's not too bad a price, considering. The Remote, BTW is the same one 
I've been using for about 4 years now, iMon Pad, so I suspect you will 
have no problems with getting it set up in lirc once you have it wired 
up. There's an lircd.conf and an lircrc on the wiki iirc.

Geoff
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