jeromephone 6 Posted February 9, 2010 I have a customer who wants to do a sort of homebrew POS take the video output to the screen on his cash register system (appears to be VGA) and covert it to baseband which will feed to a camera slot on a geo vision. He is willing to spring for a 32 cam system and we think that with a camera looking at the cash register area he will be able to tell what has been rung up. Anyone tried this?The vga to baseband converter is a lot cheaper that a POS overlay. Thanks Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted February 9, 2010 Can't think of any reason it wouldn't work... an AverKey would be ideal for this, as it splits out a composite signal and has a VGA pass-thru, so all he'd have to do it insert it "inline" with his POS monitor. http://www.avermedia-usa.com/presentation/product_avkimicro.asp Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bpzle 0 Posted February 9, 2010 what kind of POS is it? are you sure it's VGA? how many pins? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jeromephone 6 Posted February 9, 2010 it is a future systems POS I did not take the cable out but it looks like vga it is also touch screen but it looks like there is mini din plug seperate from the vga? feed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Soundy 1 Posted February 9, 2010 That sounds like a system that has the computer built into the display. Your idea would only work if there's a separate PC with a standard VGA cable that runs to the display. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bpzle 0 Posted February 9, 2010 I'm not familiar with that type of POS... but we use NCR all in one pc's for our POS's. Its a normal PC with a built in touchscreen. It runs on XP but the desktop is locked. They have VGA outputs that could be used to display a duplicate of whatever is on the built in LCD. Similar to hooking up an external monitor to a laptop. Maybe that's possible with their system? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Harrar 0 Posted February 9, 2010 Here's a quote from the FuturePOS website: "Web Cameras for Surveillance Protect your business from fraud and theft by using Future POS's built in Surveillance Module and ordinary web cameras. Future POS can monitor your business with event-driven video and real time surveillance plus a write a log of all video activity for your records." Sounds like they incorporated it into their system. Here is the link to that page. http://www.futurepos.com/WEB/features.htm You may want to contact they directly about your project. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
