LCD plugin supporting more than 70 display types (now with full graphics support!!!) (4 Viewers)

[trosty]

Just wanted to express a huge THANK YOU to JoeDalton for programming this great Plugin :!: It works great for my 4x20 Character VFD (Noritake Itron, CU20049SCPB_W2J).

Now I am about to find out how to customize my ExternalDisplay.xml and what commands/values I can use. Is it possible that the first line always stays the same (date/time)? I guess I will have to put the first "line"-command before all the "status"-tags, right?

Those of you who have a display with more than 2 lines and have altered their ExternalDisplay.xml file to get lines >2 to work: I am interested in your ExternalDisplay.xml file...

Are you still interested? I can send you my file at the end of this or beginning of next week when I will have finished the configuration.

 

[Commodore 64]

yeah, I'd like to figure out how I can show CPU usage all the time on my VFD. It would help a lot with testing, as I do everythingin fullscreen on my HDTV.

 

[trosty]

How difficult do you think it would be to implement a progress bar? I am thinking of finding a way to make myself usefull, and I think that modding your plugin so that the current song/movie/program time divided by total time is output as a total number of characters N, where the first M characters are of one type while the last (N-M) characters are of another type.

This would give a very basic, ASCII-based visual feedback on progress that steps one character at a time. Of course, characters for elapsed/remaining time should be specified in the xml file for easy user adaptation to different display technologies. Of course, the total length and placement of this bar should also be configured in this file.

The reason that Im considering this is that I have a very small display, and at viewing distance it is very difficult to make out the characters.

If this is very difficult or impractical I wont give any more thought to it.

Any news about that feature? I would love to have that one on my display 8) .

 

[trosty]

It's me again with some questions (maybe requests?).

First the plugin also works great with 4 lines once I figured out how to manage and what commands/properties to use .

I use Zoomplayer as external player and am missing the the #currentplaytime and #duration properties which I would like to have shown on the disply. Is there a way to get them out of Zoomplayer?

Is it possible that the plugin gets the #title property from a playing dvd from the imdb (or anywhere else) and I can display that info on the display (I could not find anything about that, might be a small and simple solution).

Is it possible to get the #date property in a different format? The property I get right now for #date is "Mittwoch 29" and I would like to get "Mi 29.03." or something like that. Can I define that somewhere (I guess maybe in the language file or somewhere else).

Is there a command to put two properties in one line on the display aligned left and right? Or do I have to use spaces (and does that work)? To give you an example I would like to have #date and #time in the first line which should look like follows on a 20-character-line (with spaces instead of the underlines):
Mi 29.03.______12:45

Thanks!

 

[trosty]

I use Zoomplayer as external player and am missing the the #currentplaytime and #duration properties which I would like to have shown on the display. Is there a way to get them out of Zoomplayer?

I am still looking for a solution for this problem - any ideas?

Thanks in advance 8) .

 

[trosty]

I found a plugin for ZoomPlayer as well as a plugin for LCDHype (and that is used as basis for this plugin if I remeber correct). Maybe anyone can help me or give some support on how the plugin might be adapted work with MediaPortal.

Here is what I found: ZoomPlayer and External Display

Thanks in advance for any help and support which is greatly appreciated!

 

[zswman]

Joe -

Thank you SO MUCH for this plugin! It ROCKS. I have the OrigenAE IRTrans VFD and read through about 28 pages of this thread before I was rewarded with this

Hmm. I forgot to add the port "localhost" to the list of ports in the plugin configuration. This driver connects to an IRTrans server through TCP/IP, so you need to tell it the address to connect to.

Try the following:
* Edit the ExternalDisplay.xml file with notepad
* Set the Port to "localhost" or "127.0.0.1".
* Make sure the IRTrans server is running.
* Then restart MediaPortal.

Edited the file and it works like a champ. Thanks so much for your plugin efforts, hope I can help you with something on MP one day!

 

[NLS]

I haven't tested it yet (as I just started my MediaPortal project - left Meedio) but this seems to be a GREAT plugin.

I have an HD44780 16x2 display and also a DiNovo.
I never thought that my DiNovo display would be usable (esp. since Logitech themselves don't provide an API).

Now, the questions.

1) is it possible to create and use custom characters (like Greek) like we do with software like jaLCDs?

2) is it possible (and if not pleeeeeeeeeease add it in a future version) to use BOTH HD44780 and DiNovo?

3) ...what does the "!" mean when I select DiNovo?

thanks!

 

[iosub]

Fujitsu SCALEO E FUTABA exernal display

HI.

I have enable on the configuration.exe the externaldisplay pluging

When I select my External display type "FUTABA" it tells me that I need the driverlynx driver, so the OK button is disabled

Where can I find the driver?? (I have search on google but I don't find it

Also XPMCE is working perfect with my external dilplay, so I don't know why do I need to install the driverlynx driver, is there a workaround, so I don't need to install the driverlynx driver??

Also, I have try to use the other pluging from "JoeDalton" that is for users that have and XPMCE already working with an externaldislplay but MP crach on Startup. I'm using MP RC4 with Todays last csv

Any Help?

Thank You

 

[trosty]

Re: Fujitsu SCALEO E FUTABA exernal display

When I select my External display type "FUTABA" it tells me that I need the driverlynx driver, so the OK button is disabled

Where can I find the driver?? (I have search on google but I don't find it

Also XPMCE is working perfect with my external dilplay, so I don't know why do I need to install the driverlynx driver, is there a workaround, so I don't need to install the driverlynx driver??

Try to google "DriverLINX" and you will find what you are searching for . I don't know if there is a workaround, by my display works great with the mentioned driver!