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

[Patric]

@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.

Great news!

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

I hope the following is what you need:

[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-0]
        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = HUB, FileName = \\.\libusb0-0000--0x1002-0x4348, VendorId=0x1002, ProductId=0x4348]
                     Product:
                Manufacturer:
                SerialNo    :

        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = PerInterface, FileName = \\.\libusb0-0002--0x11ba-0x0101, VendorId=0x11BA, ProductId=0x101]
                     Product: Sasem Remote Controller V1.1
                Manufacturer: Sasem
                SerialNo    : Serial #0001

Patric

 

[JoeDalton]

Aurora13:
I guess there is something wrong because the output should have been something like Patric wrote.

Did you reboot after installing the usblib driver?

#Patric:
This looks like what I need. At least it found a Sasem device.

What worries me a bit is that it is called "Sasem Remote Controller" and not Sasem VFD or something. I hope that when I send data to it that data gets rerouted to the VFD.

Joe

 

[JoeDalton]

Patric

I've uploaded a new Sasem test program (same link).
Can you please try this?

If you start it with the -scan option it works like before.
If you start it without any arguments it tries to send some data to the display.

Can you let me know if it works?

Joe

 

[Patric]

@Patric

I've uploaded a new Sasem test program (same link).
Can you please try this?

If you start it with the -scan option it works like before.
If you start it without any arguments it tries to send some data to the display.

Can you let me know if it works?

Joe

Hey Joe,

I'll try this as soon as I get home from work this evening.

Patric

 

[Anonymous]

Noritake GU128x64-800A

Hi,

is there any chance to support the Noritake Itron GU128x64-800A with this plug-in? i can supply developers with the specs of it an will be a beta tester if possible.

i would try it myself but i don't have any programming knowledge to try.


thanks t.

EDIT: Here are the Specs:

http://www.greimeratherforst.de/htpc/short_800a.pdf
http://www.greimeratherforst.de/htpc/long_800a.pdf

EDIT2: An Image

 

[Patric]

If you start it with the -scan option it works like before.
If you start it without any arguments it tries to send some data to the display.

Can you let me know if it works?

Joe

Well Joe,

here are the test results:

D:\_temp\SasemTest>SasemTest.exe -scan
found 3 busses
[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-0]
        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = HUB, FileName = \\.\
libusb0-0000--0x1002-0x4347, VendorId=0x1002, ProductId=0x4347]
                     Product:
                Manufacturer:
                SerialNo    :

        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = PerInterface, FileNa
me = \\.\libusb0-0003--0x046d-0xc219, VendorId=0x46D, ProductId=0xC219]
                     Product: Logitech Cordless RumblePad 2
                Manufacturer: Logitech
                SerialNo    :

[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-1]
        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = HUB, FileName = \\.\
libusb0-0001--0x1002-0x4348, VendorId=0x1002, ProductId=0x4348]
                     Product:
                Manufacturer:
                SerialNo    :

        [Descriptor: DescriptorType = Device, DeviceClass = PerInterface, FileNa
me = \\.\libusb0-0004--0x11ba-0x0101, VendorId=0x11BA, ProductId=0x101]
                     Product: Sasem Remote Controller V1.1
                Manufacturer: Sasem
                SerialNo    : Serial #0001

[Bus: DirectoryName = bus-2]



Press return to end

D:\_temp\SasemTest>SasemTest
found 3 busses
Found Sasem VFD IR
Device opened successfully
Data Is sent



Press return to end

But...
there wasn't anything being displayed.

If you need me testing any further just tell me.

Patric

 

[Anonymous]

The reboot solved the problem indeed!

Well same here as Patric:

found 3 busses
Found Sasem VFD IR
Device opened successfully
Data Is sent

Press return to end

And nothing is displayed.

But great you are trying this!

 

[Zby]

JoeDalton,

Would it be difficult to implement for the support for the Roku VFDs? http://nolanparty.com/mediaportal.sourceforge.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=7329

It uses simply a telnet session using a specific port, and you have something nice looking, not too expensive and ... very very flexible (it runs on IP, even wirelessly, so you can dissociate the display from the HTPC very easily, it even have an IR receiver ...).

Thx in advance, Henry-)

 

[Schmidti]

Hi JoeDalton and all other,
I`m happy to see LCD implementation in Mediaportal for my LCD and all the other. Great job Joe. Until now I had no chance to test your plugin. When I´m right it supports mainly text output. I have a GLCD KS0108 128×64 LCD and I like to use some grafics (like channel logo,...) and to write my own scripts like I`m able in LCDHype. Next point is the output of cpu temperature, harddrive space and other things that have mainly "nothing" to do with mediaportal. I like the idea to have a all in one program if possible with the flexibility of LCDHype. :wink: Is it planed to implement graphic output or to write an interface to LCDHype? I`ve realy no idea of programation.

Thanks
Schmidti

 

[JoeDalton]

Re: Noritake GU128x64-800A

is there any chance to support the Noritake Itron GU128x64-800A with this plug-in? i can supply developers with the specs of it an will be a beta tester if possible.

Daze, a number of Noritake displays are already supported. There is one specifically for the Noritake Itron GU series, although it was written for the 7000 model.

Did you already try these drivers?

<EDIT> Maybe you can contact Dirk. He also has a Noritake 800 display, but he had some problems with it. I don't know whether he has gotten it to work </EDIT>
Joe