On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 02:46:04PM +0100, Tobias Brink wrote: > Hello. > > I own a Soekris net5501 which runs OpenBSD and is generally used as a > router/firewall. As it is always on and its clock is synchronized > via NTP I thought it would be nice to have a small LED- or LC-display > to show the time attached to it. I???d prefer something readable at > night (like red LEDs) as this will be used as my bedroom clock. > Something with two rows and capable to show letters would be extra > nice (so I could display the day of the week) but is not required. > > Now I would like to know how what I could use for that, as I have no > experience with such displays and don???t know what to search for. I???d > prefer something plug and play for the USB port but I could probably > manage to attach something to the GPIO pins with some tips. The > serial port is of course not an option as I need it for administrative > access. Most important is that it works smoothly under OpenBSD as I???m > not going to use something else for this box.
I do sell USB displays, which of course run under OpenBSD. http://www.bwct.de/lcd.html The alphanumeric are supported by LCDproc and LCD4Linux. Not sure about LCDproc support on OpenBSD, but we have our own simple clientsoftware as well. LCD4Linux is Linux only AFAIK. Or if you want something really special: http://www.bwct.de/~ticso/IMG_5320.JPG http://www.bwct.de/~ticso/IMG_5333.JPG Those are 3,6" wide and can be grouped together. The LEDs are very bright and can be individually dimmed. They are controlled via 3,3V I2C and can be directly attached to an 3,3V I2C-Bus or using an ethernet board to have the complete panel as an IP service to be controlled by any networked computer with the client software installed. I have a customer with a FreeBSD controlled panel using 24 x 8 (192 x 64 LED) of those devices, taking about 600W if all LED are turned on to maximum bright. -- B.Walter http://www.bwct.de http://www.fizon.de [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
