From: Mark R. <mar...@gm...> - 2004-09-13 18:37:39
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I hate to be a pessimist, but I think that your best bet would be to aim video camera at the LCD and rely on an optical character recognition program to convert the data to text. If you can identify the chip that drives the display, you may be able to attach some wires to its inputs and read the data that way. Neither of these solutions would be easy, but they are in the realm of possibility. -- Mark On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:29:50 -0700 (PDT), Mike Warner <sto...@ya...> wrote: > Scott, > > I contacted their support folks and they say they don't have anything that > will do what I want. I figured their Backpack device would be able to > capture the parallel data as it's being transmitted to the LCD and send it > to the serial port as well as let it through to the LCD. > > Thanks anyway, > Mike > > Message: 17 > From: "Scott" <sco...@sw...> > To: <mis...@li...> > Subject: Re: [misterhouse-users] interesting question...for me, anyway > Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 21:06:28 -0500 > Reply-To: mis...@li... > > Yes, you can do exactly what you want. > > Buy one or two of these: > > http://www.seetron.com/slcds.htm > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mike Warner" <sto...@ya...> > To: <mis...@li...> > Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2004 7:07 PM > Subject: [misterhouse-users] interesting question...for me, anyway > > >I know this doesn't really have anything to do with mh, but I see that > the > > folks on the list are quite handy with things like this (either with > your > > own devices or someone else's), so I figured I'd ask here. Does > anyone > > know how, or if it's possible, to take a device with an LCD readout > and > > send the readout to a PC via serial or usb port? Know what I mean? > Say > > my device says "Mike is a dope" on the LCD. I'd like my computer to > know > > that the LCD device thinks that I'm a dope. > > > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 > Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on > who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. > Deadline: Sept. 13. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php > ________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list, go to: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=1365 > > |