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

[Anonymous]

JoeDalton,

USB Snoopy doesn't work on my machine (dbgviewer keeps giving access denied).

What else can I do to help you to make support the Sasem OnAir USB VFD?

 

[Anonymous]

Hi
I'm a little confused - there are two LCD plugins (JoeDaltons and AllenConquest's). I haven't bought any LCD yet, because I don't know which one to buy, also my purchase might be influenced on which LCD plugin I should use.

I know that both plugins can show information on the videos playing ect. But for me that isn't the important part. I want to use MP without having the TV turned on.
1. So basicly I want to navigate through MP using only the LCD - ie choose the correct channel on the net-radio start TV-recordings ect. Is that possible?
2. Which of the two LCD-plugin should I use for this purpose?

Thanks
Steen

 

[JoeDalton]

Hi sbp,

I haven't used AllenConquest's plugin, so I can't say anything about it, but my plugin has some basic support for navigating trough MP without turning the TV on.

It is possible to navigate trough most of the menus, although you need some basic knowledge of the mediaportal menus.

For example, only the current selected (menu) item is displayed so you need to know what buttons to press on your remote to get where you want.

Some things don't work yet (pop-up dialogs for example), due to some missing features in MP, but we are still working on that....

Joe

 

[JoeDalton]

What else can I do to help you to make support the Sasem OnAir USB VFD?

Are you using the USB to COM driver? The one that emulates a COM port on your PC, than maybe you can try jlb1234's driver.

He has written a driver for HD44780 displays that have a serial port connection.

Joe

 

[Anonymous]

Where can I find the USB to COM driver?

 

[JoeDalton]

I don't know Some USB VFD drivers intall this automatically.
Maybe you can contact no_idea. He has the same display than yours (although he rewired it to parallel to get it to work.

I managed to find some source code for Linux to drive your display, so I might be able to get it to work. Unfortunately I don't have any knowledge how to communicate with USB devices. So if somebody can give me some example .NET code (C#or VB.NET) for this, or point me to some info about this topic, that would be a real help.

Joe

 

[mfo]

mfo:
I checked and there was indeed a problem with the VLSystem LIS2 support. The sources are in MP but the dislay type wasn't added to the setup screen.

This problem is fixed now, so the next version of MP will have support for it.

Joe

I installed one of the latest CVS and indeed it works again like a charm !
Thanks a lot.
A noticed a problem this morning though. I was playing an audio CD and the title showing on the VFD got de-synchronized with what was really playing. Did you already notice this ?

Marc

 

[JoeDalton]

Glad it works again;-)

No, I didn't notice this problem yet. But I don't play much CDs on my MP machine. I still use my separate CD/DVD player. If you find a way to reproduce the problem, let me know. I will try to find a fix for it then.

Joe

 

[JoeDalton]

@All Sasem OnAir USB VFD users.

I have made a start on supporting your display: I have found some example code to communicate with an USB device from C#. I hope I can use it to support your display.

I am a bit stuck at the moment though, as I don't know the exact device description for your display. I need your help for this, so I've written a little program (that I can use as base for the display code) that lists all USB devices.

I need one of you to execute this program on his/her PC and tell me the following data for your display device:
- DeviceClass
- FileName
- VendorId
- ProductId
- Product
- Manufacturer
- SerialNo

:!: This program needs the usblib driver to be installed on your PC. You can download it here:http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/ (I don't know whether a reboot is necessary)

The testprogram can be found here: http://users.skynet.be/fa303665/SasemTest.zip and should be started with the -scan option.

Thanks,

Joe

 

[Anonymous]

Great Joe!

I have installed the usblib driver and after that I run your program:

found 3 busses
[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-0]
[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-1]
[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-2]



Press return to end

That's all it gives. Did I do something wrong?