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<blockquote data-quote="HdWagner" data-source="post: 62844" data-attributes="member: 21062">Okay. This is how it's supposed to work:- You install C.All as described in the manual.- You enter C.All configuration once (This adds a registry entry which points all the LCD software plugins to the file CAllMonitor.dll)- You start your LCD software and MediaPortal and everything is fine.This is how it doesn't work:- You DON'T have to have multiple copies of CAllMonitor.dll on your harddrive, because CAllMonitor.dll has a list of known property names (Some software like LCDC or LCDStudio need to know these names). This list is supposed to be in the same directory as the dll. If there were multiple instances of CAllMonitor.dll, then every instance would read from another list and since there's only one list written to, the data tree would be empty.So, what's wrong?- You have multiple copies of CAllMonitor.dll. There must be only one CAllMonitor.dll, and it must be in the directory ...whatever...\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\Process\C.All\- The LCDStudio plugin doesn't find this dll. This is because the dll is not where it's supposed to be or because the registry setting was not written. Just starting and exiting C.All configuration should do this - but maybe you need an administrator login? I'm not sure about that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HdWagner, post: 62844, member: 21062"] Okay. This is how it's supposed to work: - You install C.All as described in the manual. - You enter C.All configuration once (This adds a registry entry which points all the LCD software plugins to the file CAllMonitor.dll) - You start your LCD software and MediaPortal and everything is fine. This is how it doesn't work: - You DON'T have to have multiple copies of CAllMonitor.dll on your harddrive, because CAllMonitor.dll has a list of known property names (Some software like LCDC or LCDStudio need to know these names). This list is supposed to be in the same directory as the dll. If there were multiple instances of CAllMonitor.dll, then every instance would read from another list and since there's only one list written to, the data tree would be empty. So, what's wrong? - You have multiple copies of CAllMonitor.dll. There must be only one CAllMonitor.dll, and it must be in the directory ...whatever...\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\Process\C.All\ - The LCDStudio plugin doesn't find this dll. This is because the dll is not where it's supposed to be or because the registry setting was not written. Just starting and exiting C.All configuration should do this - but maybe you need an administrator login? I'm not sure about that. [/QUOTE]

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