Driver Available for Soundgraph OEM LCD / UltraBay

[iSP]

I bought me this one a few days ago: http://www.silverstonetek.com/produc...no=mfp51&area=
It's the very same we're talking about here.
Well, I tried the fix from the startpost, I selected the plugin, no errors at all, but nothing gets displayed on the lcd.
The nI tried 3rd party mode instead and nothing.
Could it be this fix isn't working on x64 Vista?
It's not that important for me that it works on vista, as I'll put this in my new mediaportal htpc to be with xp, but wanted to play around with it already...


Got it to work, but I lost all functionality of the remote within mediaportal, but kept working in mce.
So I made everything undone, and still it only works for mce now, no longer with mediaportal, pretty weird if you ask me.
Let's see if I can find a fix fot this and provide it in this thread

[ralphy]

Dear mimk97, and iSP and others who may still have this problem.

I've been scratching my head about this one and can think of the following possibilities.
(1) either LCD hardware you have is slightly different to mine and/or,
(2) there's some other hardware related issue that I am going to have a tough time finding.
(3) somthing else.

Of course, Soundgraph's reluctance to issue an API makes life difficult, but if the original limited API can be determined, I am sure we can sort this out too. It might be best to work this offline, so feel free to PM me and we can do so via email.

Something else worth trying. The attached file is one used to determine how iMON manager worked when developing the API spec. I am suspecting that your LCD's may expect a different vfdType code in the initialisation. Using this attachment will confirm my suspicion, and allow the external display plugin to be modified accordingly.

• COPY and save the original SG_VFD.dll file in Soungraph\iMON folder.
• Place the attached in the same folder.
• Create a c:\temp folder
• Create an empty x.txt file (I can't remember if this is required or not - so this step is just in case)
• Start iMON Manager. Note, nothing will be displayed. The new SG_VFD.dll simply traps what I think are the relevant calls iMON Manager makes to the dll, and instead of displaying anything, writes the details of the calls it makes to the text file.
• Stop iMON Manager.
• A file c:\temp\x.txt will now contain the debug information
• Somewhere in the file will be a 'Called Init' line. Anything other than 16 8888 on the following might be the smoking gun, as these numbers are used to initialise the display
• Please send me the x.txt file
• Put back the original SG_VFD.dll

[ralphy]

Originally Posted by iSP

Got it to work, but I lost all functionality of the remote within mediaportal, but kept working in mce.
So I made everything undone, and still it only works for mce now, no longer with mediaportal, pretty weird if you ask me.
Let's see if I can find a fix fot this and provide it in this thread

GREAT!

Remember - start MediaPortal first, and then start iMON Manager. I know this way works to get the remote working on my machine.

Do not start MP with iMON Manager running.

[iSP]

I didn't, did it in that very same order.
Right now I can't get it to work at all, but did send you the info requested, along with some info that might prove usefull.

[ralphy]

mimk97 and iSP,

can you please send me your ExternalDisplay.xml files.

Line two of this file may have an element ForceGraphicText="true". It should be = "false". If it were true, then the displayHandler will not send any text to the iMON Driver to display - hence you see nothing. But can you please confirm that you see two horizontal blue lines. If so, that means the the driver is talking to the display - if not ....

iSP, I checked x.txt, and it looks ok to me.

[iSP]

Well as stated I got it working except for the remote, but there's no way I can enable the plugin now anymore. thus having the ExternalDisplay.xml.
Right now as soon as I try to enable it I get this error:


Zie het einde van dit bericht voor meer informatie over het aanroepen
van JIT-foutopsporing (Just In Time) in plaats van dit dialoogvenster.

************** Tekst van uitzondering **************
System.NullReferenceException: De objectverwijzing is niet op een exemplaar van een object ingesteld.
bij ProcessPlugins.ExternalDisplay.SetupForm.VerifyLCD Type()
bij ProcessPlugins.ExternalDisplay.SetupForm..ctor()
bij ProcessPlugins.ExternalDisplay.ExternalDisplay.Sho wPlugin()
bij MediaPortal.Configuration.Sections.PluginsNew.item Configure_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.RaiseEvent(Obje ct key, EventArgs e)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripMenuItem.OnClick(Eve ntArgs e)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleClick(Eve ntArgs e)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.HandleMouseUp(M ouseEventArgs e)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEventIntera ctive(EventArgs e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripItem.FireEvent(Event Args e, ToolStripItemEventType met)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.OnMouseUp(MouseEven tArgs mea)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.OnMouseUp(M ouseEventArgs mea)
bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Mes sage& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStrip.WndProc(Message& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.ToolStripDropDown.WndProc(Mes sage& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.O nMessage(Message& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.W ndProc(Message& m)
bij System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)


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************** JIT-foutopsporing **************
Als u JIT-foutopsporing wilt inschakelen, moet in het configuratiebestand voor deze
toepassing of computer (machine.config) de waarde
jitDebugging in het gedeelte system.windows.forms zijn ingesteld.
De toepassing moet ook zijn gecompileerd terwijl foutopsporing
was ingeschakeld.

Bijvoorbeeld:

<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>

Wanneer JIT-foutopsporing is ingeschakeld, worden onverwerkte uitzonderingen
naar het JIT-foutopsporingsprogramma gestuurd dat op de computer is geregistreerd
en worden niet door dit dialoogvenster verwerkt.


Will try to reinstall mediaportal completely later today, to see if that helps any.

[iSP]

The problem above has been solved, a badly compiled or corrupt mediaportal install was the cause.
Right now got it fully working including a ms MCE remote! As red in this thread for some people it didn't work but for me it does, haven't tried the iMon remote yet as I don't care for it much.

What I did was:

1. Install a clean 2.2 version from sourceforge (it displays 2.3 but it's 2.2 alright)
2. Copy the two files to their locations
3. closed iMon manager
4. launched mediaportal
5. launched iMon manager
6. Taskbar icon -> right mouse button -> iMon utilities -> Frontview -> plug-in mode (last button)

Nothing else was changed, except for selecting the MCE remote upon install of iMon manager.
Will test the iMon remote later today to make sure it's 100% working.

[ralphy]

Please go here for updated drivers

[JoeDalton]

I'm closing this thread. Discussion is continued in the thread that ralphy pointed to...