mac.calder Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 I have a pet project involving watchout and a few other applications that I really want to create a nice physical control surface. Everything involved has an ethernet protocol I can use to automate with - what I am after is a nice piece of hardware that will allow me to do it. I know of a number of bits of hardware which integrate with a PC (generally USB) and run a piece of software to translate, I also have a bevvy of apps on various touch screen devices that can do it. It would not be hard to write a piece of arduino code (or other microprocessor code) and use GPI's as well. But I really want a nice polished piece of hardware if it exists. OLED with internal logic to allow me to do things like pages would be awesome (and probably prohibitively expensive for a pet project), but I would honestly be happy with blank keys and a single page. Anyone know of a piece of hardware that fits my bill? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lite_lad Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 something like this from pharos? http://www.pharoscontrols.com/products/lighting_controllers/tpc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.calder Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 Not really - I want physical buttons. Touch screen is all well and good for programming situations. For playback/show situations I want physical buttons. As I said in my OP, I have a tonne of touch screen solutions to choose from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj Dunc Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Something similar to this? http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys/xk24.php?http://www.piengineering.com/xkeys.phpIm looking at getting one too myself, and theres lots of different variants on their website. Take a look at the DIY section too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.calder Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 The form factor is right, but I really really really want ethernet. I want to plug the device into a switch and control a number of devices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickb12345 Posted September 4, 2011 Share Posted September 4, 2011 Just having a nose around the Pharos website mentioned above and one of their other products is this: http://www.pharoscontrols.com/products/remote_devices/bps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.calder Posted September 4, 2011 Author Share Posted September 4, 2011 That cannot control devices directly, and it not really the right form factor for what I want to do What I want is similar to this - obviously without the $4k price tag - so drop the LCD Keys etc. I don't think their ethernet card talks to anything but their software either, so another point against it. I have PLC's and things like Crestron processors which I could easily program to do the job and then wire a matrix of buttons to them giving me a similar result to what I am after, I could also use a number of touch screen bits of software running on a tablet or iPad giving me a neat and sleek looking solution or I could use something similar to arduino and program myself. I want to make sure that I cannot get exactly the solution I am after (a nice off the shelf device where I can plug it in, program each button to send TCP or UDP strings over ethernet to a couple of devices which does not rely on an intermediary system to "translate" for it) before I whip out the soldering iron and the coding tools and build a solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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