On Monday 09 January 2017 09:47:33 Alan Corey wrote: > >> 1860NX). So even if ones budget doesn't run to an HDMI monitor or > >> TV, there's a fair number of these on eBay. > > The best deal on a cheap HDMI monitor I've been able to find is > actually a TV. It has HDMI, VGA, RCA type analog video inputs. It > has a DVD drive tucked in behind the screen, you can plug a USB memory > stick or SD card into it to view pictures or play MP3s. And it runs > on 12 volts: comes with a wall wart and I think also a cord with a > cigarette lighter plug, but it has a standard 2.1 or 2.5 mm coaxial > power input jack. > > Try to find a 12 volt HDMI monitor otherwise and they're expensive. I > bought it to use with my DSLR for focusing so it at least had to run > on a battery pack and be portable. I've used it, not extensively yet, > connected to a Pi, with the HDMI input. Then I tried connecting it to > a 6 meter ground plane antenna in the attic and discovered a TV > station showing every episode of all 5 Star Trek series, so right now > it gets used as a TV. The only problem I've had is that after > dropping it a dozen times or so on a concrete floor the mute button on > the remote is sluggish. > > I bought the 13 inch, but the same electronics are also used with > bigger displays. Looks like they all use 1333x768 resolution.
That's a wee bit odd, std in that category is 1366x768. > The > EDID does work correctly with a Pi, you can use it without a > config.txt file. A menu, reachable by remote, switches between the > inputs. I bought a 13 inch for $140 but Walmart lists a few at $125 > now. They're made up to at least 32 inch. > https://www.axessusa.com/product-category/televisions/television-dvd-c >ombo I have a tvd1801-13, I see there's also a tvd1803, don't know > anything about that. Newer model I think. > > > I bought some of those covers for the logitek k-360 keyboards, but > > the form fitted to the keys stuff could turn inside out and would > > hold a key down. It was much worse than just being carefull. This > > was on a medium > > Have you considered a touch screen? > https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-touch-display/ > That's smallish at 7 inches but one-piece computer-monitor combos are > all the rage on alibaba. Thats about 15" too small AND alibaba owes me several hundred for stuff I bought because the only way to contact them is browser based, and uses something to enable the text entry that no linux browser has. I give most such off-shore outfits the benefit of the doubt, figuring they will fix it in due time, but after several $100+ purchases that I needed help with, I am fresh out of doubt for alibaba. They are now in my "and the camel that rode in on them" category. > A capacitive keyboard doesn't need to be much more than 2 spirals for > each "key" etched as printed circuit traces. When you touch it the > capacitance at that key changes. That can be mounted behind > something like a flat sheet of glass and still adjusted to work. > Whatever gets on the surface you just wipe off. The glass could be > Pyrex like some stove tops. It takes at least a propane-oxygen flame > to get hot enough to melt Pyrex, almost white hot. Probably a lot of > reinventing the wheel to bring all that out to a USB plug unless you > can find something surplus. The one maker I found via a google search is VERY proud of it, $250 worth, and apparently made to order with a nearly 75 day a.r.o. to ship. For obvious reasons I've already forgotten that name as thats way out of my pay grade. :-\ But this isn't fixing the dpms non-function. OTOH, I've not rebooted since changing that .conf file I found. I have to run into town for some #10 ring lugs, so I'll do that right now & post if it was a success later, because it should turn itself back off when I return from town & turn it on. And when I returned the whole network had been reset, short local power failure at 13:16 had rebooted 4 of them, and the 5th has not yet been trained to auto-start when the power came back because my generator is up and delivering in about 3 seconds. When I went out and turned the monitor on, the blanker had quit, but it stayed powered up and sitting in black for the minute I observed it. Back inside I see that after another 20 minutes, something called xlyap has kicked in and is burning a bit over 70% of one core. (gotta get aiglx working, hint hint) I assume thats one of the animated screensavers. But I have work to do that will shut it down, so I'd better git-r-done. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
