CybrDisplay External Status Plugin

[Mercbac]

Originally Posted by cybrmage

You haven't used the FIXED version....

Thanks for the fixed version! I have tried it without success though, but with a few interesting observations.
- The new dll still reports the Soundgraph VFD / LCD driver as version V03_16_2008b (found with hex-editor)
- Using Process Monitor showed that the dll created the CybrDisplay.xml in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal, but then when I clicked on the (now available) "Configuration Editor" button, it was looking for that xml file in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal, so I made a copy there as well.

Running Frontview and switching it off again or playing with the "3rd party uses..." setting, with iMon Manager either on or off did not result in anything to be displayed while running MediaPortal, although the "Test Display" button still puts the test text on the display. Logs are attached.

[cleao]

I'v got the same problem as Merbac...

Fighting with Soundgraph software and CybrDisplay but, nothing in MP is dysplayed !

[cybrmage]

Originally Posted by Mercbac

The new dll still reports the Soundgraph VFD / LCD driver as version V03_16_2008b

That is normal.

Originally Posted by Mercbac

the dll created the CybrDisplay.xml in C:\ProgramData\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

Normal. So far, so good...

Originally Posted by Mercbac

"Configuration Editor" button, it was looking for that xml file in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal

That's a new one... Not normal... and fixed...

Originally Posted by Mercbac

Running Frontview and switching it off again or playing with the "3rd party uses..." setting, with iMon Manager either on or off did not result in anything to be displayed while running MediaPortal, although the "Test Display" button still puts the test text on the display.

You don't need to make any changes to the iMON Manager configuration settings... The driver changes the appropriate options to allow the display to work (when you do make changes and then run MediaPortal, you will notice multiple iMON Manager icons in the Windows System Tray...).

Originally Posted by Mercbac

Logs are attached.

You only attached the mediaportal.log ths time... It may have been helpful to see both the mediaportal.log and the configuration.log, but this single log is ok... thank you!

By the look of things, your device may have locked up (the iMON devices manage to do this a lot!!)... with the previous logs you posted, the driver was able to ask the device for the firmware version and it got a valid response... this time, the device returned invalid data... you should cycle power to the device...

Also, the "software detect" mechanism (which depends on the iMON Manager setting a registry entry to indicate the display type) did not find the display... So it assumed that it was an LCD type display.... An incorrect assumption... The driver should not have loaded (this has also been fixed)... but that it why it didn't work...

Reset your device and try the new release.... thanks.

[Mercbac]

Originally Posted by cybrmage

You don't need to make any changes to the iMON Manager configuration settings... The driver changes the appropriate options to allow the display to work (when you do make changes and then run MediaPortal, you will notice multiple iMON Manager icons in the Windows System Tray...).

Yes I did indeed notice that too.

Originally Posted by cybrmage

By the look of things, your device may have locked up (the iMON devices manage to do this a lot!!)... with the previous logs you posted, the driver was able to ask the device for the firmware version and it got a valid response... this time, the device returned invalid data... you should cycle power to the device...

So I switched off the machine and flipped the switch on the PSU, disabling all power to the entire machine for over an hour. Switched on again, but nothing appears on the display. From the logs it seemed as if the plugin could still not determine the display type, so I hard-set it to LCD2 under "Advanced" in the config, but no results either.
The attached logs (all of them this time) are from the run with the display type set to Automatic.

The display does work nicely with Frontview though, even if that doesn't help me in MP... So I'm not sure how "locked up" it would be.

Thanks for all your help so far!!

[dd129]

@cybrmage,

sorry for my bad english!

at the first, very very many thanks for the wonderful plugin.

And now my problem:
The characters: "üäöÜÄÖß" in Mediaportal only as "?" represented, there is a possibility of the characters as "üäöÜÄÖß" represented?
About Translate function can I identifier and handle each letter. ( Ä to Ae, ö to oe .....)

<TranslateFrom>
<string>©</string>
<string>®</string>
<string>ü</string>
<string>ä</string>
<string>ö</string>
<string>Ü</string>
<string>Ä</string>
<string>Ö</string>
<string>ß</string>
</TranslateFrom>
<TranslateTo>
<string>(c)</string>
<string>(R)</string>
<string>ue</string>
<string>ae</string>
<string>oe</string>
<string>Ue</string>
<string>Ae</string>
<string>Oe</string>
<string>ss</string>
</TranslateTo>

I use a vlsystems M-Play bast Display
Greetings and many Thanks
DD129

[cleao]

With last plugin 21-3-2008 I'v got a working display (vfd) if starting mediaportal with windows if exit MP and start again the display doesn't work anymore !
When the display works, the remote don't work and when the display don't work the remote works !!!!

[panni]

Hey, I'm using the latest Version of your Plugin, and after adding a fairly big Folder to the current audio playlist, MediaPortal (current stable) crashes.

Logs attached

PS:
I've got an ANTEC Fusion V2/430 Silver, so its an iMON VFD i guess

[Update]:
The problem can be fixed by using explicit VFD instead of automatic detection, aswell as setting the equalizer to "normal" instead of "stereo".

[cybrmage]

Originally Posted by panni

Hey, I'm using the latest Version of your Plugin, and after adding a fairly big Folder to the current audio playlist, MediaPortal (current stable) crashes.

After reviewing the logs, this does not appear to be an issue with the display plugin... it just gets caught in the fallout...

You added a directory to a playlist... this caused a scan of the files in the directory... This scan threw multiple exceptions (I count 47 of them in the logs)...

Because the EQ update thread runs as a seperate thread, when it accesses the main thread, it gets the errors that are pending there and crashes causing MediaPortal to terminate.

Originally Posted by panni

[Update]:
The problem can be fixed by using explicit VFD instead of automatic detection, aswell as setting the equalizer to "normal" instead of "stereo".

I think that this is just a coincidence... in subsequent runs of MediaPortal, the error would not be generated, as the scan does not occur and the exceptions aren't thrown...

[panni]

Ah, thanks for your quick answer.

The thing is, that this error only occurred once - I rescanned the folder many times, without any crash.
I was able to reproduce the error by enabling the auto-settings and the stereo VFD display, then reopening MP and rescanning the "__CHECKING" folder.

[cybrmage]

Originally Posted by Mercbac

So I switched off the machine and flipped the switch on the PSU, disabling all power to the entire machine for over an hour. Switched on again, but nothing appears on the display.

It, at least, eliminates one possibility... (you would NOT believe how much time has been spent trying to resolve an issue that had been caused by a "frozen" iMON display device...)

Originally Posted by Mercbac

From the logs it seemed as if the plugin could still not determine the display type

Yes, the driver is disabled... the hardware tests can not determine the hardware type.

I don't know what would cause the hardware tests to fail... I have seen this happen before... but I have not been able to determine why this happens... When it has happened with my display, I have had to uninstall the SoundGraph software and reinstall it...

Did you set the "Delay driver initialization" option?? It appears to be needed for the LCD2 devices (as these ARE problem USB devices!!). If the device is performing a reset when the driver tries to get the hardware data, the hardware tests will fail.

Originally Posted by Mercbac

so I hard-set it to LCD2 under "Advanced" in the config

You didn't post the logs from a run of MediaPortal with this setting... So there is no information on what it happenning when data is actually being sent to the display...


So... next step... delete the CybrDisplay.xml and CybrDisplay_iMONLCDg.xml file from the MediaPortal directory... run configure and configure the plugin for LCD2. (this should eliminate a corrupted configuration)

Then run MediaPortal and see what happens (and post the logs)

Originally Posted by panni

I was able to reproduce the error by enabling the auto-settings and the stereo VFD display, then reopening MP and rescanning the "__CHECKING" folder.

Then turn on "extensive logging" in the plugin and then reproduce the error... and post the logs and I'll see if anything looks amiss.

Originally Posted by dd129

my problem:
The characters: "üäöÜÄÖß" in Mediaportal only as "?" represented, there is a possibility of the characters as "üäöÜÄÖß" represented?
About Translate function can I identifier and handle each letter. ( Ä to Ae, ö to oe .....)

The umlats are being represented on the display as "?"...
Did you add the translation table that you posted to the CybrDisplay.xml file?
Did the translations work when you added them?

I'm sorry... I do not understand what you are trying to say...