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- Jan 13, 2005
ok strange question.
at work i can see the need to be a bit more mobile when we are working on our rack mounted stuff. none of our racks have monitors and more and more frequently we need them to get into NVRs or servers that are operating headless or have specific options or abilities you cant access through their web interface.
I had two ideas to fix this and i wanted to ask the public what they thought of each.
We need to be able to hook up over HDMI and have the ability to adapt VGA, which we can over hdmi
One option would be a portable monitor with hdmi as one of the inputs. more expensive (~$100)
second option would be a hdmi capture device over USB. less expensive (~$25)
we'd have a laptop where ever we are at but its often times a pain in the butt to lug a monitor with a stand around too, find a plug, wire it to the device we're trying to work with.
i can see it both ways but personally i am leaning twards a capture device. its cheaper, its not something we'll be doing on a daily basis and its one less thing to drop and break. it does how ever take up laptop screenage but you could easily swap between the window with the capture and the desktop, webpage, etc your using. also cost is a major factor at this job (talking public funds here)
Portable monitors would eliminate a cable as long as there was a battery in them and save screen space on the laptop if we were to be running diag on both but they are much more than the other option
what do you guys think?
again, terminal type or NVR maintenance work. not needed for daily use but probably once a week.
at work i can see the need to be a bit more mobile when we are working on our rack mounted stuff. none of our racks have monitors and more and more frequently we need them to get into NVRs or servers that are operating headless or have specific options or abilities you cant access through their web interface.
I had two ideas to fix this and i wanted to ask the public what they thought of each.
We need to be able to hook up over HDMI and have the ability to adapt VGA, which we can over hdmi
One option would be a portable monitor with hdmi as one of the inputs. more expensive (~$100)
second option would be a hdmi capture device over USB. less expensive (~$25)
we'd have a laptop where ever we are at but its often times a pain in the butt to lug a monitor with a stand around too, find a plug, wire it to the device we're trying to work with.
i can see it both ways but personally i am leaning twards a capture device. its cheaper, its not something we'll be doing on a daily basis and its one less thing to drop and break. it does how ever take up laptop screenage but you could easily swap between the window with the capture and the desktop, webpage, etc your using. also cost is a major factor at this job (talking public funds here)
Portable monitors would eliminate a cable as long as there was a battery in them and save screen space on the laptop if we were to be running diag on both but they are much more than the other option
what do you guys think?
again, terminal type or NVR maintenance work. not needed for daily use but probably once a week.
