VSControl

Serial control for ViewSonic video projector

Overview

This is a simple shell script to control a ViewSonic digital video projector. I have tested this with a ViewSonic PJD7820HD; it may or may not work with other projectors.

Hardware connection

Connect a USB to serial device (I useda TRENDnet TU-S9), null modem, and gender changer to the serial port of the projector.

Software setup

The ViewSonic projector expects serial data at (8,n,1) at 115200 baud. This can be configured with stty:

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200

(substitute /dev/ttyUSB0 for the terminal device provided by the USB serial adapter)

Usage

Simply run the script and provide an option. For example, to turn the projector on, use:

./projector.sh on

A list of common options can be seen by running the script with no options. For a full list of available options, use:

./projector list

Bugs

• Currently the serial device is hard-coded as /dev/ttyUSB0.
• There is no support for reading any data or status from the projector, only writing.

Notes

This can be used from an Onion Omega (or presumably any similar OpenWRT device with a USB port) after first installing the coreutils-stty package:

opkg install coreutils-stty

and setting the device speed as outlined above.