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Get rid of keyboard/mouse
Amra:
You might see about getting a touch screen addon, that or perhaps using a keyboard encoder and designing a small control panel for the jukebox.
aj6500:
Play songs??? ??? Just 'cause I have a jukebox doesn't mean it actually does anything besides look pretty.
Actually I'm in the middle of designing a different control panel. Right now it's set up with 5 buttons, 1 for each direction and 1 for accept, and hacked into a USB gamepad using keyboard2mouse as an interface. This worked pretty well for jukebox v.7. Unfortunately because of the jukebox v.7 display, it's not really usable once you get more than a hundred songs or so. It only displays like 16 songs at once so by the time you hit 1000 songs, you'll never find the one you want.
Right now I'm using VJ which displays entire albums w/covers at once, and allows you to punch in album and song #'s just like a real jukebox. So I'm using my orignal buttons to page left/right, control volume, and turn on random play, and a seperate keypad for # input. When I get the time I'll have a control board with 10 # buttons, a page left/right button, and a couple others.
Thanks for the info on the bios settings. If I disable the checks and later connect a keyboard for some reason, will the keyboard work or still be disabled?
_Iz-:
It'll still work. The bios just makes the computer boot whether or not a keyboard is actually attached. If it's set to default then the computer refuses to boot without a keyboard, halts and reports a no keyboard error. You just have to set it to NOT halt on keyboard error.
Cue-Ball:
I would add to that: Do NOT plug a PS2 keyboard into a machine while it's running. Make sure to shut down first. Most machines just ignore the keyboard, but some machines can actually be damaged by plugging in a PS2 keyboard or mouse while the machine is powered up.
If you want to be able to hot swap your keyboard, just pick up a generic USB keyboard at CompUSA for $10 or so. Then you can plug it in and unplug it as often as you want without having to worry about anything (assuming you found your BIOS setting to turn off keyboard requirements).
seaner:
--- Quote from: _Iz- on March 28, 2003, 04:43:29 pm ---It'll still work. The bios just makes the computer boot whether or not a keyboard is actually attached. If it's set to default then the computer refuses to boot without a keyboard, halts and reports a no keyboard error. You just have to set it to NOT halt on keyboard error.
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Actually, some bioses don't have that option. In that case you either need to wire up a microcontroller or pick up an off-the-shelf solution.. I know there are such things as keyboard terminators that you can plug in that will perform a keyboard POST and just acknowledge requests afterwards.
The message "KEYBOARD ERROR. PRESS F1 TO CONTINUE" comes to mind.
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