Here is is a simple script designed to interface a Customer Pole display from an EPOS system with
Homeseer
The Pole Display has a built in Serial interface and supports a number of protocols. This script uses
the ESC/POS protocol since this seems to be a standard
The display itself is a 2 line by 20 character VFD and is large enough to be read from a distance
These displays can be had new for 50 UK pounds or less on ebay, they retail in the couple of
hundreds.
This script in itself does very little other than pass data from another script to the display. In my
case I call it from my Caller ID script, so that the top line displays the caller name and the bottom
line the number.
It is the responsibility of the calling script to format the script, eg to centre it and an example
from the caller ID script is in the ZIP file and the Docs directory when unzipped
To maximise flexibility this script gets called twice, once for the bottom line and once for the top
For installation instructions see vfd_pole install.txt in the install directory
A picture of it "in action" is in the zip file and the discussion topic
http://ubb.homeseer.com/eve/ubb.x?a=...7325#706107325
(From the readme in the zip file)
Kevin
Homeseer
The Pole Display has a built in Serial interface and supports a number of protocols. This script uses
the ESC/POS protocol since this seems to be a standard
The display itself is a 2 line by 20 character VFD and is large enough to be read from a distance
These displays can be had new for 50 UK pounds or less on ebay, they retail in the couple of
hundreds.
This script in itself does very little other than pass data from another script to the display. In my
case I call it from my Caller ID script, so that the top line displays the caller name and the bottom
line the number.
It is the responsibility of the calling script to format the script, eg to centre it and an example
from the caller ID script is in the ZIP file and the Docs directory when unzipped
To maximise flexibility this script gets called twice, once for the bottom line and once for the top
For installation instructions see vfd_pole install.txt in the install directory
A picture of it "in action" is in the zip file and the discussion topic
http://ubb.homeseer.com/eve/ubb.x?a=...7325#706107325
(From the readme in the zip file)
Kevin