LCD plugin supporting more than 70 display types (now with full graphics support!!!) (1 Viewer)

[Anonymous]

first thx for the plugin.

I have a 320x240 GLCD with SED 133x USB, the same like Thomas

But nothing works

With LCD Hype 0.39 and 0.40 works really fine.

What I make wrong?

Also when I use the Testprogramm, nothing happend.

In the Textmode, I set it to 40/30, in graphic mode 320/240, Port is USB and Port Driver is installed (but its not necessary for USB, I think)

Hope u can help.

thx a lot.

Crash

*Edit: Hmm, see, must be a big problem with the USB controller, thats really bad

 

[Anonymous]

I, along with a few others, had a problem with the sed1520 driver resulting in only half of the display working. A fix for this was posted in the lcdhype forum, but when I replaced the sed1520.dll in the lcd test program's driver folder the problem was still there - any thoughts?

Does it work OK in LCDHype 0.40 now?
Did you try the MT-12232-A (SED1520) driver?

Joe

It does work in 0.40 but only if i replace the sed1520 with the one from the forum.

I did try the MT-12232-A driver but it only shows half of the screen on my lcd - the left half is just a lot of characters.

 

[turbodude]

Path Correct

G'day. Just tried to install your plugin hoping that my display (Siemens Nixdofy BA63) used the same comms protocol as the "Wincor-Nixdorf Beetle BA66 Serial Cashier Display". I have 2 simple questions .
1) I just want to check that the extracted folder location indicated "Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins\process" is the correct location for the DLL's etc as it does not work for me and I would assume they should be under "Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\plugins" (not in "process") which gives some results for me.
2) can you please tell me what serial comms setup the "Wincor-Nixdorf Beetle BA66 Serial Cashier Display" is setup for as this seems unchangeble in the plugin. My assumption is 9600,8,N,1 as my screen which is 9600 with Odd parity displays semi readable text with errors. Is the comms setup changable in any way.

thanks in advance and great work!

 

[turbodude]

Please forgive the Newbie. Please disregard my previous question 1), sorted now. Still chasing an answer to question 2) though if possible.

thanks

 

[rtv]

Well, deleting the configfile did the trick for me! :wink:
Works fabulous - just like before :lol: In fact, are there any visible changes?

 

[JackMalone]

First of all: THANKS!

Then: I have a pb with my hd44780 LCD since the beginning.
It's a 20*4 LCD.

it works well with Smarties and JaLCDs but I have never tested with LCDHype.

My problème is that only a half of the LCD displays something. It seems to be "sqeezed". It's enough strange to describe...

Have you already heard about this? :shock:

 

[archimede]

Hi JoeDalton,
good work
I've just tried the latest version (20b) of your plugin and I've noticed that you've done some changes in order to "navigate" in MP only with the display!
BTW, I think there are still some open points...
In myHome, for example, there are still some problems to display on the 2nd line the current selected menu item (it remains blank).
In myRadio when a radio channel is selected, the name is displayed, but after some seconds the default screen is displayed again. In this case I would leave the radio channel displayed, otherwise you have to press a key to know which channel is selected!
I know that 2x16 lines are not enough to do everything, but in general I think that if something is playing (video, music, radio, tv or picture show) the LCD should always display what's going on.
Only if you press a key the menu items should be displayed, in order to navigate through them.
But, of course, this is only my opinion

PS
If you need some deeper tests, just let me know.. I own a 2x16 HD44780 LCD.

 

[JoeDalton]

Thomas, Crash

I think I figured out the problem with the SED133x LUI driver

Please try the following:
- Shutdown Mediaportal
- Create a new folder LUI in the Mediaportal home folder (where Mediaportal.exe is located)
- Move the LUI.DLL from the Mediaportal home folder into that new folder.
- Then start Mediaportal again.

I used a filesystem monitor to figure out what the driver was doing, this way I found out that the driver tried to load LUI.DLL from that folder. Because it couldn't find it in there, it also couldn't use it to send information to the display.

I updated the LCDTest and plugin zips on my website to include this change...

Let's hope this will solve your problem.

Joe

 

[JoeDalton]

Are you still planning to add support for the LCDs supported by the Girder LCD Driver plugin ?
If yes do you have a roadmap (enhancing your plugin functionalities first before widening LCD models support ?).

I'm still trying to find a way to do it, yes. But it is very complicated to do it. Unless the LCDHype drivers, the Girder drivers don't have a nice exposed API I can use, so it can take a while to figure it out.

As for the roadmap you asked for. That is really short:
1) Make sure all problems with current displays get solved
2) Provide a UI to alter the message rules
3) Add support for other display types

But I'm working on some other things too besides this, so I can't put dates on it:-(

Joe

 

[JoeDalton]

Re: Path Correct

2) can you please tell me what serial comms setup the "Wincor-Nixdorf Beetle BA66 Serial Cashier Display" is setup for as this seems unchangeble in the plugin. My assumption is 9600,8,N,1 as my screen which is 9600 with Odd parity displays semi readable text with errors. Is the comms setup changable in any way.

The com setup is not changable. I don't know what setup the driver uses, because I didn't write it, but I guess it is 9600,8,O,1 (odd parity) yes, because that seems to be the display's default.

Try to set the Com. Delay to 15. This is the setting that is used in LCDHype.

If that doesn't help, please try to get the display to work in LCDHype first. You can get the help of the LCDHype forum to do that.

Joe