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

[JoeDalton]

öhm, after testing, I listen MP3's. And I see something on the LCD

Works everything, also in TV, shows the EPG information, in Videos the moviename and everything else.

But its really small, only text, but it works...

Its really great, but how I can make it bigger, maybe with the TV logos or other graphics?

thx

That is really good news! Can you please verify if it also works after a clean boot (I mean without running the test program first?)

About enlarging the font. I'll have to look at that.

Joe

 

[Anonymous]

When I can help with fontsize or graphics, tell me, but I can't programming, but a lot of other things.

It works also after a reboot, but, sometimes, I get some strange letters over the normal text like this: |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||

I see then both, the text and this letters, only a restart from MP helps.

but anyway, this is a really big step for me and I think for a lot of other users with an USB LCD.

 

[Thomas]

Hi Joe,

Crash is right, it works.
After reading the posting of crash i tried it again and now it works.
Enlarging the fonts will only be possible with graphik output, i think.

Thanks for your work.

Thomas

 

[archimede]

The second line in the Home screen will only display something with the next version of MP. Or you can get the latest sources from CVS and build it yourself.

Ok, I'll wait for the next release to test it

About the radio. I see there isn't a rule in my config file to handle radio.
You can try to add one yourself, if you like. I'd put it somewhere between PlayingMusic and PlayingTV.

It would have to be something like
<Message Status="PlayingRadio">
<Line Alignment="Left">
<Text Value="Radio" />
</Line>
<Line Alignment="Left">
<Property Value="#channel" />
</Line>
</Message>

I can't give you the exact property name for the radio channel as I can't use my radio since version 0.10. You can enable the propertybrowser to find out the exact name. (If you find it, please let me know so I can add it to the default configuration)

Thanks for the hint... the property value should be "#title", but the problem is that when myRadio is playing, the status is "idle"!
That means we cannot use the message status you proposed
We have to think about something else.

archimede

 

[Thomas]

Hi,

@ Crash: Does yor SED133x work with the test program ?

My display is only reacting on init and clear.

@ JoeDalton; I found the fault why the display doesn't work in the first test, in the configuration i had set it to 30 columns. It only works with 40 and 53 columns.

Is there a way to do the output of the SED133x with graphic characters and a special fontset ? I remember we had something like that with the first tests.

Thomas

 

[Anonymous]

Thomas: No it works not, but when MP runs, then works, with little bugs.

 

[Anonymous]

Guest & dAMe,

You could start by finding me more information and code examples about your displays.

If you have a program that is capable of sending some information to your display, you could try to use a tool like "USB Snoopy" to grab the usb traffic and send it to me. I could then try to figure out what the protocol is...

Joe

In The week end I can try do it!

Meanwhile I can say to you that the display works with grider but it flashes when visualized elapsed time. The SAMSUNG would be same of the parallel version but it has IMON and the USB connection

 

[stevew80]

diNovo support?

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, if not sorry!

I have the diNovo keyboard from Logitech and it has an LCD built into the 'media pad' - In Media player, Winamp etc the song name gets sent to the LCD, but not from MediaPortal

Any way this plugin could be configured or modified to do this?


Link to product: http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/products/details/GB/EN,CRID=2158,CONTENTID=9874

Steve

Ps, sorry for two similar posts, (this one and one in general hardware), couldn't decide which was best place to post!

 

[nopap]

Hi JoeDalton,
I'm the happy owner of a VLSystem LIS2 display, as some others in this thread. As it does not work using your drivers, i quickly wrote a specific driver for this device.
It's using Communication.dll to talk with serial port (com3) over USB.
I tested it on my MP and it seems to work.

Please find the sources here:

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nopap/MediaPortal/Lis2Driver.rar

It contains a new .cs file for the driver, the Communication.dll file and the Settings.cs i modified to add this new driver in the driver list (1 modified line only).

Hope it can help.

Thanks,
Nopap.

 

[JoeDalton]

Thanks nopap,

I had already put some work in supporting this display, but for some reason it was not yet included in the plugin.

I will add it this evening when I'm home...

Joe