Zalman HD135 VFD (VlSys Mplay)

[Senji064]

hello, i find the driver in windows/system32/hid.dll. I copy this driver in mediaportal/plugin/process/driverlcd.

I configure externaldisplay and i select my driver in the list. But it does'nt work. Indeed, there is a red circle. there is a message: impossible to fin information in hid.dll.

Please, JoeDalton, help me or i call Lucky Luke.

Thanks

[SniperFC]

did anyone find a solution to this, just got the HD135 case and this is the only thing left to sort!!

[ashopedies]

if its a m-play 202 plus in the case, then it works with the mce display plugin.
i dont have a HD135 case, but i have a m-play 202 plus installed today. i use MP RC3 with the mce display plugin for MP RC2.

edit:
the display shows sometimes the wrong informations. espacially when a video is playing. while the video is playing the display shows: " media center - unknown". after pressing the stop button it shows the correct information. by resuming the video the display shows "media center - unknown" again.

[cybrmage]

It seems that the display in the HD135 uses the same command set as the L.I.S.2 display... but uses a different communications (com port) speed...

So, as an experiment (as I don't have this device), I added an entry to the drivers list (the "VL Systems Mplay driver v1.0" driver)...

So, give this a try and see if it works...

NOTE: this is compiled for 0.2.3 (release version)

Instructions...
1) extract the processplugins.dll from the archive.
2) rename the processplugins.dll in your MediaPortal plugins/process/ directory to processplugins.dll.backup
3) copy the file you extracted in step 1) to your MediaPortal plugins/process/ directory
4) run configure.exe, select plugins, right click ExternalDisplay, select "disable" to enable the plugin, right click ExternalDisplay, select "configure", select the "VL systems Mplay driver v1.0" as the display.
5) Select the virtual comm port that your display is configured on... (Use Windows device manager to determine the correct Virtual comm port to use)
6) click on "ok" to save your external display configuration, click on "ok" to save your MediaPortal configuration and exit the configuration program.
7) run MediaPortal and determine if the display operates.

Regards,
CybrMage

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[-Manfred-]

First of all, thank you for your effort. Then the bad news - nothing happens with this version. Here is logs added if those helps debugging.

One general improvement idea to that configuration window: a test button for your settings (Hello world! to display is enough).

Using Vista and MP 0.2.3.0 SVN16540

[aXs]

Thank you cybrmage for your dll, my external display works perfectly with it (except with the accents é,è,ê... But it's maybe an other problem) . To make it work i have to disable the "Media Home Center" software from VL System and if this software is disable the remote controller doesn't work. So now i have a new problem . Do you have any ideas?

Regards

aXs

[cybrmage]

Originally Posted by aXs

Thank you cybrmage for your dll, my external display works perfectly with it (except with the accents é,è,ê... But it's maybe an other problem) . To make it work i have to disable the "Media Home Center" software from VL System and if this software is disable the remote controller doesn't work. So now i have a new problem . Do you have any ideas?

Regards

aXs

I take it that the IR part of the device doesn't get exposed as a seperate USB device?...
As I don't have the hardware... I can't do much... but the IR section may work in a similar fashion to the MatrixOrbital display that have a keypad....

When I get a chance, I'll add some extra logging to the driver and you can do some testing to see it we can add remote control support to the driver...

Regards,
CybrMage


UPDATE:

Here is a test driver....

I have added some code to the driver to handle data returned by the display... So far, it ONLY logs that data that is returned (if any)... It is the first step to determining how the remote is handled...

Please test it out...

I will need the logs from two seperate MediaPortal sessions...

First Session:
1) run MediaPortal...
2) DO NOT PRESS ANY BUTTONS ON THE REMOTE CONTROL!!!
3) Allow Mediaportal to run for a minute or two.
4) shut down MediaPortal.
5) go to the logs directory... Rename mediaportal.log to mediaportal_part1.log.

Second Session:
1) run MediaPortal...
2) Press any key on the remote once.
3) wait several seconds
4) press a different key on the remote
5) wait several seconds
6) repeat step 2 through 5 several times using different keys on the remote
7) shut down MediaPortal.
8) go to the logs directory... Rename mediaportal.log to mediaportal_part2.log.

Add the mediaportal_part1.log and mediaportal_part2.log to a zip file, and post them here.

Regards,
CybrMage

[SniperFC]

I also have this problem and have been folowing this thread! I can't do any tests atm cause im getting ready to move house so my HTPC is boxed up, it will be out and running next weekend, so ill start running the tests aswell.


Just thought I would say thanks for the help and all

EDIT:

you mention a keypad?

but the IR section may work in a similar fashion to the MatrixOrbital display that have a keypad

Ill take a photo when I get the chance, but there are 2 connection on the back of the dispay, one is called keypad or something similar. there is also a web site address which ill look up too.

[-Manfred-]

@aXs: are you using Vista? Or anyone else got this working on Vista yet?

Some clarification how it behaves. When MHC (Vlsys prog) is disabled and MP is running display is showing what was the last view selected on MHC, so nothing from MP side. After MP is stopped and MCH is manually started again it can not find display port anymore and some strange chars are sent to it. So conclusion is that this dll can find the correct port but there is smthing strange going on. I have to cut power from PSU to recover the display, restart is not enough.

Is plain 0.2.3 needed or can SVN versions be used - this is now difference from reqs?

Cheers,
M

[Bagal]

Originally Posted by -Manfred-

@aXs: are you using Vista? Or anyone else got this working on Vista yet?

Some clarification how it behaves. When MHC (Vlsys prog) is disabled and MP is running display is showing what was the last view selected on MHC, so nothing from MP side. After MP is stopped and MCH is manually started again it can not find display port anymore and some strange chars are sent to it. So conclusion is that this dll can find the correct port but there is smthing strange going on. I have to cut power from PSU to recover the display, restart is not enough.

Is plain 0.2.3 needed or can SVN versions be used - this is now difference from reqs?

Cheers,
M

That's exactly the same behaviour that I got.

cybrmage for trying to get this to work!