Rich 'Forge' Mingin on Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:39:11 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] This Box Rocks, but on XP?


William H. Magill wrote:

On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 02:26  PM, Paul wrote:

William H. Magill wrote:

If you are looking at this stuff seriously, visit "Mr. House." It's a pearl based home automation system. Does everything but scratch your back and probably could have a module designed to do that too.

Actually, I was just thinking about how to control MythTV from across a room in a practical way. I'm wondering how much range a wireless keyboard is has.

I have the Logitech wireless mouse+keyboard package. I'm not real fond of the mouse (it's optical, and none of my flat surfaces seem to be really optical-friendly), but the RF keyboard easily crosses my living room (20-30 feet) without ever dropping a keystroke, and I've used it once or twice from another room, with largely positive results. Might be worth investigating. Uses 2 PS/2 connectors to hook up, too, so totally alt-OS friendly.

A very similar set:
http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm?page=products/details&CRID=486&CONTENTID=5059&countryid=19&languageid=1


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