Logitech presenter R800 rocks

April 29, 2010 SWAT 2 comments

Every once in a while, you buy a piece of hardware which is officially not “supported” on Linux (according to the vendor). Since I have to do presentations regularly, I finally decided to buy a “presenter” to aid me and make my presentation look even better. After reading several reviews about the Logitech presenter R800 and seeing a couple of comments that it appeared to work on the Mac OS, my mind was made up. I picked it up today, immediately hooked it up to my Ubuntu Karmic (9.10, 2.6.31 kernel) desktop and it was recognized as:

046d:c52d Logitech, Inc.

I tested a couple of presentations with evince (pdf) and openoffice.org impress (odp) and the buttons work perfectly! The available buttons are: next, previous, start/end presentation and blank presentation screen. Furthermore there is an on/off button, a laserpointer button (a frickin’ laser!) and two buttons to set the timer for the vibrating alarm. I still have to test it in the field, but I already know that this was the an extremely good buy.

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Written by Fabian Rodriguez about 2 years ago.

I imagine the R800 is a better model somehow, but it seems to have the very same features as the previous 2.4 Mhz presenter model they had:
http://www.logitech.com/en-us/432/175?WT.z_sp=Image

The older model works out of the box on any Ubuntu version I’ve tried and has an incredible range. It’s also the only model among a dozen I tried that didn’t suffer from nearby wireless networks – tested in San Francisco (I kid you not).

It’s also cheaper, if you can find one:
http://www.google.com/products/catalog?client=ubuntu&q=logitech+presenter&oe=utf-8&cid=16075746501845561240&os=sellers#p

…although it doesn’t look as good at the one you have! I paid $99 at the time, well worth it.

Combine it with the Presenter Console for OpenOffice.org, it’s a must for any presenter.

Package: openoffice.org-presenter-console in 10.04 LTS only.

For other Ubuntu versions download it from http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/presenter-screen
Written by SWAT about 2 years ago.

I still have to test this one in Amsterdam. As for your model/make, it appears to have the same functionality and as long it works for you, it is fine. (the same applies for application-preference in Linux)

Have had an eye out for the presenter console, since it was in development phase. I have been using it a while now and it is quite usefull. Good to hear somebody packaged it (thanks for the headsup)

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