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    Perhipheral control interface

    So I'm bored and wondering how I can make my PC easier to use. Windaz 8 started off the "sideshow" thing and it seems to have died off. I was kind of hoping that Macbook Pros having their touch bar thing would have helped kick off some PC rip offs.

    I was looking for either a small (circa 5 inch) touch display where I could create an interface myself using bundled software or a keypad which is totally programmable. I can find the latter but they are very cheap for say a numberpad but very expensive for a fully programmable system which is similar in terms of hardware. I appreciate the number pad just uses established standards and therefore is basically plug and play whereas more development is required on the software side for the programmable thing but you're looking at £20 for a high quality numberpad and ~£100 for a fully programmable system which is nearly the same in terms of hardware.

    TL;DR - I'm looking for an auxillary control panel for my PC that is either hardware with fully programmable keys or a touchscreen interface which I can design from scratch and assign macros to what would just have to be an LCARS interface. I once made my Orange SPV phone an LCARS interface - highly amusing. If it's a keypress type thing which is cheap to make, my budget is small but if it's a touchscreen system I'm willing to spend more. I was considering using an old mobile phone to do it - anyone know any good software?

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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    Roccat power grid?

    Or something like a 4D Systems screen with custom-designed software?

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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    Maybe this?

    Not sure how programmable / customisable it is...
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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    Cheers, will have a look. I was kind of hoping to be able to use a mobile phone to do this and create a touchscreen interfarce (watching too much 'allo 'allo) via USB (so the phone doesn't go dead). All the remote control type software seems to be via wifi and meant for full control of the PC rather than macros, etc. There's nothing to stop me using wifi and wiring it up to a USB port to keep it charged but it seems an absurd way doing it.

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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    I built something like this years ago for windows mobile, it used bluetooth and sent commands/keystrokes to a small server application on the host PC.

    Probably easy to knock up something for Android, if it doesn't already exist?

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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    Quote Originally Posted by virtuo View Post
    I built something like this years ago for windows mobile, it used bluetooth and sent commands/keystrokes to a small server application on the host PC.

    Probably easy to knock up something for Android, if it doesn't already exist?
    It has been well over a decade (probably nearer two) since I dabbled in any real coding. I think the effort required to get myself updated for such a minor project would not be worth it. I can't even get my hackintosh to talk to my router. I think Apple have sabotaged it as it's only doing it since the last update.

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    Re: Perhipheral control interface

    Quote Originally Posted by philehidiot View Post
    It has been well over a decade (probably nearer two) since I dabbled in any real coding. I think the effort required to get myself updated for such a minor project would not be worth it. I can't even get my hackintosh to talk to my router. I think Apple have sabotaged it as it's only doing it since the last update.
    Sorry didn't mean to say you should be able to do it yourself, just that for an app developer it shouldn't throw up any real difficulties and I'd expect the respective app market places would have tons of them.

    One that springs to mind is Unified Remote, might tick some of your boxes - its' not free last time I looked, but does go super cheap every now and again.

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