Touch Screen Monitor support

[rjs]

I was able to get my Viewsonic touch screen monitor VSD241 to work with the Buildbotics controller. It turned out to be very straight forward. I simply connected the monitor to the HDMI port and the touch screen's USB connector to one of the available USB ports on the controller. When I connected the monitor the Buildbotics was running Chrome with the web interface already launched and I was able to control the system from the monitor using the touch screen. It also worked with a wireless Logitech mouse and I suspect it would work with a keyboard as well but I have not had a chance to test that yet.

I am not sure if this will work with other touch screen monitors but this is a huge feature as it allows you to have a local interface to the controller without having to use a computer, phone or table in the workspace.

[Doug]

Just curious,

Were you able to get a virtual keyboard to come up on your touch screen?

[rjs]

no, I tried but I never saw the touch keypad come up.

[Doug]

I got an ASUS touch screen monitor and hooked it up, but there was not virtual keyboard. The good news is that I was able to hook up a regular keyboard, then navigate to this link and add a virtual keyboard extension to the chromium browser on the controller.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... kmnb?hl=en

Works like a charm.

[Zoey79]

Acer 27-Inch Widescreen Touch Screen Monitor. ...
any suggestions to me, it's good or bad??

[Doug]

I have not tried an Acer monitor with the Buildbotics Controller. The discussion at the following link suggests that it will not work out of the box but seems to provide a work around to get it going.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/view ... p?t=111791

If you decide to try this out, please report back.

[JPG963]

CONFIRMED - Dell 23" Touchscreen 2314T works with the controller and supports full pop-up keyboard and multi touch screen support.

[Doug]

Great!