Migrating from Soundgraph's iMON/iMedian to MediaPortal (1 Viewer)

[ariznaf]

Hello everybody, as you have noticed, I'm new in this forum.

Quite a long ago I had bought a Silverstone LC16M case to mount an HTPC.
It comes with Soundgrapsh LCD display and iMON iPAD IR remote, and corresponding iMON/iMedian software.

I am fed up of it. It never workds correctly. The remote software hangs many times. The Media software does not reproduce many formats (nor Bluray even it calls itself HD)...

So I am going to try MediaPortal. I have installed it and it reproduces mp4 files correctly.
The problem is that the remote does not work very well and the LCD does not display messages at all.
But I have read in this forum that there are drivers for it.

Any advice (or thread url) in how to get it working properly will be wellcome.

I have a Lifeview FlyTV Express MST-STA2 TV card.
It does not work in iMEDIAN. I will try to get it working with mediaportal.

Regards and TIA

 

[etheesdad]

Hello everybody, as you have noticed, I'm new in this forum.

Quite a long ago I had bought a Silverstone LC16M case to mount an HTPC.
It comes with Soundgrapsh LCD display and iMON iPAD IR remote, and corresponding iMON/iMedian software.

I am fed up of it. It never workds correctly. The remote software hangs many times. The Media software does not reproduce many formats (nor Bluray even it calls itself HD)...

So I am going to try MediaPortal. I have installed it and it reproduces mp4 files correctly.
The problem is that the remote does not work very well and the LCD does not display messages at all.
But I have read in this forum that there are drivers for it.

Any advice (or thread url) in how to get it working properly will be wellcome.

I have a Lifeview FlyTV Express MST-STA2 TV card.
It does not work in iMEDIAN. I will try to get it working with mediaportal.

Regards and TIA

I have LC20 with Imon Pad and have it working with MP. I have attached my Mediaportal.imo. Use Imon to import the settings.

Personally I use menus rather than the colored buttons on the Remote to navigate, but if you want to set them up, use shortcut'r plugin. Perhaps get Imon working first though as incorrect settings in shortcut'r can wreak havoc with yr remote setup.

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/plugins-47/shortcuter-plugin-shortcuts-mp-sections-32747/

 

[etheesdad]

mediaportal.imo

 

[kiwijunglist]

Hi

I'm using LC16-M with Mediaportal.
I use imon v7.2 for remote control. Mapping keystrokes in the program commander for MP
I am now using MP2Imon plugin for the VFD.
I find that using the minidisplay plugin caused remote problems.

All works flawlessly. I actually wrote a guide for setting up mediaportal with LC16-M just google "kiwijunglist imon setup guide" to find it. Guide is a bit old, and I now use MP2IMON for the VFD, but the remote control setup is still current.

EDIT: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...-vfd-imon-ipad-imon-front-buttons-hack-45232/

 

[ariznaf]

Thanks to both.
Now it seems I have the the iPAD remote working properly with MediaPortal (I need to configure mediaPortal yet, as I don't know all of its functions yet).

I have not working the VFD LCD display yet.
It keeps displaying the hour (and the hour is wrong). I suspect there is a problem with iMON as it seems not to detect the LCD display.

Will try to install MP2Imon plugin following instructions from this thread: https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/get-support-90/fix-imon-vfds-solution-59133/

Then I will try to get my flyTV working under mediaPortal.

 

[kiwijunglist]

ariznaf -> Do you have VCD or LCD because they are different.

I can recommend the mp2imon+vspe fix but this is for VFD not LCD

 

[ariznaf]

You are right, kiwijunglist.

I have made some mistake.

My htpc case is a silverstone GD01MX (not LC16M) and it comes (as I could see in the silverstone web site) with the LCD version, not the VFD.

I don't know which are exactly the differences, but it is a LCD not VFD.

This is the description page of the case: SilverStone Technology Co., Ltd - Designing Inspiration

How may I get it working?

Regards and thanks for your answer.

 

[kiwijunglist]

ariznaf - You have LCD, mp2imon will probably not work for you. You will have to use the minidisplay plugin in
Mediaportal Configuration -> Advanced Mode -> Plugins -> Process Plugins -> Minidisplay plugin

 

[ariznaf]

OK, thank you.

I will try to put it to work with that plugin.

 

[kiwijunglist]

ariznaf - btw there is also a new version of the minidisplay plugin, if you search you can find the thread by chemili.