> I haven't, but what about a dedicated PC on the projector and pcAnywhere /
> remote administrator / etc?

Its coming down to a dedicated PC at the projector with something like
VNC (at least for a few tests) as I havent been able to find any
pre-fab dongles. But interfacing it to the projector for control isnt
appearing totally obvious. I know the projector has a serial input
which can be interfaced to an AMX controller. I even have some code to
program an AMX controller to run the specific projector its just a
case of how do I become the amx simply with a PC serial port??

In AMX langauge the following code is used.

[I've cut and pasted the bits which appear relavent but may have
missed some crucial parts, if you understand these things i can post
the whole dump of code]

DEFINE_DEVICE

PROJECTOR    = 5001:1:0   (* RS-232 INFOCUS LP650 PROJECTOR *)

DEFINE_EVENT

DATA_EVENT[PROJECTOR]
 {
 ONLINE:
  {
  SEND_COMMAND DATA.DEVICE,'SET BAUD 19200,N,8,1 485 DISABLE'
  SEND_COMMAND DATA.DEVICE,'CHARDM10'
  SEND_COMMAND DATA.DEVICE,'HSOFF'
  }
 }

[BIG SECTION CUT OUT....]


This command is the only one I can see that is used to power on/off
the projector [not sure which]

  SEND_STRING PROJECTOR,"'(PWR0)',$0D"

This command is sent to blank the screen.

  SEND_STRING PROJECTOR,"'(BLK1)',$0D"

This command is used to unblank the screen

  SEND_STRING PROJECTOR,"'(BLK0)',$0D"


How would I go about writing software for the PC that does this.
Sending the ASCII of '(PWR0)' out the comm port seems to easy.



liam

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