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Title: lcars
Post by: TheTrueHannibal on June 15, 2010, 02:06:56 PM
does anyone know about an lcars system for controlling X10?

kind of like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4n0p7Z4jA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4n0p7Z4jA)
Title: Re: lcars
Post by: HA Dave on June 15, 2010, 03:06:56 PM
Quote from: TheTrueHannibal on June 15, 2010, 02:06:56 PM
does anyone know about an lcars system for controlling X10?
kind of like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4n0p7Z4jA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP4n0p7Z4jA)

Oh yes...  Star Trek fans are everywhere! The colorful ST computer screen (Library Computer Access/Retrieval System or LCARS) has shown up on videos for some time. But just recently with cheap touch screens and i devices (iphone, ipod, ipad) has the use of touchscreens become practical [affordable].

I myself use what was originally inspired by ST... Voice Commands (http://www.davesdomainonline.com/bvc/bvc.htm) (and Kirk never had it so good).
Title: Re: lcars
Post by: TheTrueHannibal on June 15, 2010, 04:09:46 PM
Ive used BVC before. its really cool but there is a lot of noise where i am so it doesn't work very well. I'm planing on buying a windows 7 based tablet and combined with lcarsx32 GUI shell that transforms your desktop to a working lcars station, and building a dock for it in the wall. essentially doing what the video did. so I'm looking for a way to maintain the star trek theme when I'm using x10 modules.
Title: Re: lcars
Post by: HA Dave on June 15, 2010, 06:03:00 PM
Quote from: TheTrueHannibal on June 15, 2010, 04:09:46 PM
I'm planing on buying a windows 7 based tablet and combined with lcarsx32 GUI shell that transforms your desktop to a working lcars station, and building a dock for it in the wall. essentially doing what the video did. so I'm looking for a way to maintain the star trek theme when I'm using x10 modules.

Sounds VERY cool.
Title: Re: lcars
Post by: Brandt on June 15, 2010, 07:41:45 PM
The Nokia Internet Tablet's (N770, N800, N810) have LCARS skins....You may be able to interface it with AHP somehow..


Here is the link provided in the video description:

http://www.springwald.de/content/projekte/hardware/lcars_haus/index.html

Title: Re: lcars
Post by: -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) on June 15, 2010, 11:37:42 PM
TheTrueHannibal,

Assuming the lcarsx32 GUI shell can run Windows shortcuts and make them look lcars, you could follow my instructions in this post: http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=20344.msg114788#msg114788 (http://forums.x10.com/index.php?topic=20344.msg114788#msg114788) and create shortcuts to send X10 commands!   8)

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Title: Re: lcars
Post by: TheTrueHannibal on June 16, 2010, 04:16:27 AM
Bill i could kiss you. it worked, i just need to get the tablet and organize the files and i will be one step closer to the 24 century. thanks again for all your help.
Title: Re: lcars
Post by: -Bill- (of wgjohns.com) on June 16, 2010, 08:27:54 PM
Quote from: TheTrueHannibal on June 16, 2010, 04:16:27 AM
Bill i could kiss you. it worked, i just need to get the tablet and organize the files and i will be one step closer to the 24 century. thanks again for all your help.

Uhh..   :-\

Glad to help, but how about just clicking "helpful post" under my name instead.   :)%
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