How to calibrate touchscreen on Chrome OS

[Canmor]

Hi all,

I'm working for a company which producing Interactive White Board (IWB) for educations. In fact, IWB is a touchscreen for input and a projector for display. The touchscreen is based on USB-HID, touch works on Chrome OS, but you know, the display of projector is always distorted, there're always offsets of touch coordinations.

Our customer and we are looking for a solutions to get IWB and Chrome OS works well together, 'cause both them are popular on education. Any one can give me some suggestions?

 

[Stephen Gale]

The biggest problem is in the IWB providers not registering the IWB as a Standard HID...  SMART doesn't work, Promethean doesn't work. I'm glad that you're company realizes the potential of Chromebooks.  I am the IT Director of a School District in Colorado, and this is the biggest holdup we have to moving our staff to Chromebooks.

In my opinion Schools are better off finding a TouchScreen Monitor than an IWB (and lower overall TCO).

For the touchpad itself there are controls:

chrome://settings

chrome://settings/pointer-overlay

That little bit about "Australian scrolling" was key for me: in other places, it is called "natural scrolling"

(Taken from https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chromebook-central/YSDo0MLCtIs) 

As for interaction: What level of interaction are you hoping to accomplish with your product?  Something simple like only Mouse Control from the board, or do you intend to produce a product, like SMARTNotebook and SMARTInk to allow creation and manipulation of elements and use of the Board like a traditional WhiteBoard? For the latter, we are using an extension that turns any website into a WhiteBoard, but it's still in Beta.  I would love to see it polished with a more natural interface.  The link is: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/whiteboard-beta/blmkcmjafbbmbahfgdlgncbfjkmanemm 

Best of luck to you.  I hope that you do are able to accomplish your goals, both for your own benefit and for the Chromebook Education community at large.

[Alessandro Morelli]

Hi Guys, we manage sercice office and we wuld like to use chromebit + USB IR frame with monitor or projector.

For projector we have same Canmor issue 

I follow chrome://settings/pointer-overlay link on chromebit but no option appears

Have you found other solutions?

Alex