CybrDisplay External Status Plugin (1 Viewer)

[globaldonkey]

When I click on the advanced settings, I get an unhandled exception error.

I have managed to duplicate the problem.... I'll have a fix soon...

Hi Cybrmage,

I tried the 26/03/08 version, but still experiencing the unhandled exception. Here are the details of the actual error.



Edit:

After deleting the cybrdisplay xml files, I no longer get the unhandled exception, and I am now able to save the new settings for the Imon driver. I should have thought to try that before posting. I have set the driver as per the attached thumbnail, which suggests it should restart frontview after starting the driver, however, the behaviour of the remote is as before. Frontview is set to "never" after the driver starts, and the remote is inoperational. Skipping out to IMON manager and toggling it from "never" to "automatically" and back again, as before, works around the problem. Logs attached. The logs capture the manual workaround as well.

 

[cnova80]

Hi Cybrmage,

the way to get both, the pad and the display to work:

- start with your Plugin -> Remote is disabled, if the display is working
- switch Mediaportal to window mode
- switch frontview to "ever"
- switch frontview to "never"
- switch Mediaportal to fullscreen

everything works fine

Greetings cnova

 

[globaldonkey]

Hi Cybrmage,

the way to get both, the pad and the display to work:

- start with your Plugin -> Remote is disabled, if the display is working
- switch Mediaportal to window mode
- switch frontview to "ever"
- switch frontview to "never"
- switch Mediaportal to fullscreen

everything works fine

Greetings cnova

Hi cnova,

Yes, that is the currently accepted work around. I would assume the recently added setting "Force Antec/iMON Manager restart after driver starts" should have affected the same thing, but it does not seem to work. Cybrmage was waiting on feedback from us iMON users as to whether it worked. Have you tried the latest driver and turning on this setting?

 

[cnova80]

I tried the driver versions : 6.01.0122 & 6 Beta
but both doesnt work with my display. Only the 6.20.???? that come with my silverstone case work. I tested the 7er Versions with an older Cybrmage-Plugin without success. I can try the 7er with the aktual Plugin, but dont belive that the problem would be fixed.

The Option "Force Antec/iMON Manager restart after driver starts" dont fix the problem, because the frontview starts in "never"-mode an doesnt switch to "ever" and back to "never".

 

[globaldonkey]

I tried the driver versions : 6.01.0122 & 6 Beta
but both doesnt work with my display. Only the 6.20.???? that come with my silverstone case work. I tested the 7er Versions with an older Cybrmage-Plugin without success. I can try the 7er with the aktual Plugin, but dont belive that the problem would be fixed.

The Option "Force Antec/iMON Manager restart after driver starts" dont fix the problem, because the frontview starts in "never"-mode an doesnt switch to "ever" and back to "never".

Hi Cnova80,

Yes, don't bother with the V7 drivers for IMON, they just make matters worse by basically shutting down the remote entirely if "never" is selected in frontview. Looks like Soundgraph don't want you to use their display with anything but their driver . Stick with what came with your case (6.20.xxxx). Hopefully with the updated feedback and logs, Cybrmage will be able to get the restart option to work as intended.

 

[Mercbac]

I used another trick to get around the problems with iMON manager changing between keyboard and mouse modes and the continuous resetting of the "3rd party uses..." setting under options in imon manager. It was a little bit more work, but the advantage is that it's automated now, and I don't have to think about it anymore.

Download Microsoft's Powershell (there are separate XP and Vista versions, just Google them). and use a small script to change 2 registry keys (force keyboard mode and tick the "3rd party uses.. " setting), then start MP from the script, while having imon manager running all the time (also on autostart with Windows boot). I made a shortcut to the script, making sure that the .ps1 file extension is associated with powershell and added the script to the top level of my start menu and gave it the MP icon. Visually there's no difference, but it works fully automatic and every time.

This is my script:
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Set-ItemProperty -path "HKCU:\Software\SOUNDGRAPH\iMON" -name "MouseMode" -value 0
Set-ItemProperty -path "HKCU:\Software\SOUNDGRAPH\iMON" -name "RCPlugin" -value 0

cd 'C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal'
invoke-expression '.\MediaPortal.exe'
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[astronaut]

Hi,

my HTPC is equipped with a 128*64 graphical lcd display controlled by the IOW24 chip (see www.ct-maeusekino.de). I've written a c# method that displays bitmaps on the display. Is it somehow possible to make the CybrDisplay plugin call this method? Or can a simple driver be made out of the method and integrated into the plugin?

Best regards,

Astronaut

 

[globaldonkey]

I used another trick to get around the problems with iMON manager changing between keyboard and mouse modes and the continuous resetting of the "3rd party uses..." setting under options in imon manager. It was a little bit more work, but the advantage is that it's automated now, and I don't have to think about it anymore.

Hi Mercbac,

That's a great work around for the mouse mode, but I have a question.

Why do you need to set the "3rd party uses IMon" setting? I don't have this set, and everything I've read in these forums has recommended against this setting. If it is to allow Mediaportal to be configured to use the remote, then you can do what is effectively the reverse by mapping Mediaportal keyboard shortcuts into imon with the .imo file that Chemelli created:

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...rt-53/imon-remotes-mapping-mediaportal-29442/

There is also a "mykeys" plugin available that gets the "My Movies", "My Pictures" on the remote working as well.

I would be interested to hear how you configured Mediaportal to use the remote directly, just to satisfy my own curiosity. Is it configured as an MCE remote in MP? Do all the functions actually work (eg subtitles, aspect ratio, My keys etc)?

 

[Mercbac]

Why do you need to set the "3rd party uses IMon" setting? I don't have this set, and everything I've read in these forums has recommended against this setting. If it is to allow Mediaportal to be configured to use the remote, then you can do what is effectively the reverse by mapping Mediaportal keyboard shortcuts into imon with the .imo file that Chemelli created:

Hi GlobalDonkey

To be honest, I'm not sure the "3rd party uses..." setting is necessary, but I believe I saw instances during my setup and config process of the new machine where either no input from the remote seemed to be getting through, or the CybrDisplay plugin wouldn't work without that setting. I'd have to test commenting out that line in my script to see what happens.

There is also a "mykeys" plugin available that gets the "My Movies", "My Pictures" on the remote working as well.

I saw that plugin, but used this one instead. The idea is the same though.

What I did in the plugin I linked above, is to remove all the "common" keys that are defined in the supplied sample "keyboard.xml" file (not doing so caused every key-press to be processed twice, once by MP default and once by the plugin). I then tried to find more ID tags in the skins and inserted them into new sections I created in the "keyboard.xml" sample file, by simply copy/pasting existing key definitions and changing the ID tag.

I would be interested to hear how you configured Mediaportal to use the remote directly, just to satisfy my own curiosity. Is it configured as an MCE remote in MP? Do all the functions actually work (eg subtitles, aspect ratio, My keys etc)?

In MP Config I have all the tabs under "Remote" empty, i.e. no type of remote is checked at all, which means that I'm controlling MP by the pseudo keypresses generated by the iMON driver. Those keypresses are defined in the .imo file that (under Vista) should go in: C:\Users\MP\AppData\Roaming\SOUNDGRAPH\iMON\Setup\iMON PAD
Under XP that should probably be under "Documents and Settings", where MP is the Windows userid on my system, used to run MediaPortal.
I do hope that the the imo file also includes the "undefine" actions I took in order to remove all other application mappings in the iMON manager (under Settings -> Window Command) as well as deleting everything under iMON Utilities -> Application Launcher, because that somehow managed to get one of my remote keys to start Windows Media Center, oops. If the .imo does not contain this you'd have to do that manually in order to replicate my setup.

So I've actually duplicated the work done by Chemelli, just to get all my own mappings to match the keyboard.xml file for that other plugin.

And finally I am using a Logitech Harmony 885 remote to control my system, so that some of the unusual and non-intuitive key assignements (like the Bookmark key going to the EPG) are appearing as softkeys on the display of my Harmony with the text "EPG". My Harmony then sends the IR signal for the iMON remote's Bookmark key, causing the iMON driver to generate a CTRL-ALT-G pseudo keypress, that in turn is passed through the keyboard plugin to jump to the Window ID 10, which is the EPG.

I have attached the .IMO file with my keymappings as well as the keyboard.xml file for the linked plugin in a .zip.
The keyboard.xml file should go in C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\InputDeviceMappings\defaults

If any of this is unclear just let me know. And because this is not really on topic for this thread anymore we can either start a new one if there's enough interest to dicuss this further, or otherwise feel free to contact me directly.

 

[stantzos]

Hi Cybrmage!
I have a AlphaCool 200x64 LCD USB display. Using the LCDHype drivers the display works, but the backlight
stays off. Tried the controls for brightness/contrast with no luck. The backlight works fine with the ALPHACD software, but not in MP/CYBRDISPLAY.

MP 2.3 Final (latest SVN)

Any ideas?