Mini Display Plugin (1 Viewer)

[CKB]

Right, as promised here's my current xml - my display is an iMon built into my Antec case.

For comparison with your own setup, I'm on MP1.1 Alpha, the latest StreamedMP (april 09?) and the latest iMon (7.62.071). I have tweaked the BasicHome.xml to make visible the highlighted button though.

Chris

 

[1stdead]

Right, as promised here's my current xml - my display is an iMon built into my Antec case.

For comparison with your own setup, I'm on MP1.1 Alpha, the latest StreamedMP (april 09?) and the latest iMon (7.62.071). I have tweaked the BasicHome.xml to make visible the highlighted button though.

Chris

Thanks will try it out.

 

[slarti]

Hello all. I've been having this weird problem with my vfd. It's the one that comes with origen ae, VF210, I think. The display worked perfectly with MP 1.0 and 1.0.1 but for some reason in 1.0.2 the display updates itself only once in 8 seconds. I've tried all sorts of versions of IRtrans but with no luck. I have also tried fiddling with the minidisplay plugin settings with no effect. Does anyone have any idea what causes this?

I included mediaportal logs. Tell me if you need something else.

 

[camoura]

Same thing here. Updates every 8 seconds or so.

Using an old Serial Matrix Orbital VFD.

 

[SherlockS]

Hi, can I ask a question about how to get MiniDisplay plugin to work with my vfd over here?
I have an Ahanix MCE-302 case, which has a 2x16 lines Samsung VFD, connected to the LPT1 port. I'm running Vista x64 and have run into some trouble to get the right I/O for parallel port, but I've downloaded this InpOut32.dll: http://www.highrez.co.uk/scripts/download.asp?package=InpOutBinaries and managed to get LCDSmartie to work. In LCDSMartie, I've selected HD44780.dll as plugin.

Now I've copied the InpOut32.dll file to the MediaPortal main folder and tried to setup MiniDisplay, but I can't get it working. (No characters at all). I've selected numerous drivers, including the HD44780 and Samsung serial/parallel driver, but nothing works. Am I overlooking something?

 

[camoura]

Hello all. I've been having this weird problem with my vfd. It's the one that comes with origen ae, VF210, I think. The display worked perfectly with MP 1.0 and 1.0.1 but for some reason in 1.0.2 the display updates itself only once in 8 seconds. I've tried all sorts of versions of IRtrans but with no luck. I have also tried fiddling with the minidisplay plugin settings with no effect. Does anyone have any idea what causes this?

I included mediaportal logs. Tell me if you need something else.

Same thing here. Updates every 8 seconds or so.

Using an old Serial Matrix Orbital VFD.

Any solution?

 

[slarti]

Hello all. I've been having this weird problem with my vfd. It's the one that comes with origen ae, VF210, I think. The display worked perfectly with MP 1.0 and 1.0.1 but for some reason in 1.0.2 the display updates itself only once in 8 seconds. I've tried all sorts of versions of IRtrans but with no luck. I have also tried fiddling with the minidisplay plugin settings with no effect. Does anyone have any idea what causes this?

I included mediaportal logs. Tell me if you need something else.

Same thing here. Updates every 8 seconds or so.

Using an old Serial Matrix Orbital VFD.

Any solution?

Not yet. Could you post your system specs and what plugins you are using. Maybe we have something in common that is causing this.

I'm using MP 1.0.2, StreamedMP as skin, 4therecord 1.4.1 , moving pictures and tv-series v2.3.3485.

 

[GuileZ]

Hi,

I've got an irTrans display in my Zalman HD160 case - my display also 'hangs' at random - would be great if this could be fixed!

@chemelli:
Hello chemelli:

My next question has nothing to do with new features but with bug-fixing!

In my Origen S16V the IrTRans VF210-Display sporadically hangs whe I scroll through EPG or play music and meanwhile scroll through the directory to search for the next music title to play. I can force this behaviour but can not 100% say when it hangs next. But it is very annoying when you just hear music and have either to reset your htpc to see something on display again or to turn on your TV, stop MP in windows task manager and restart it.

I already opened a thread about that problem in the german section but got no answer to this problem, please see: (log-Files are there)
https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...y-vf210-im-origen-s16v-haengt-staendig-60736/

Meanwhile I got the information from another user here, that this is a known problem and caused by a call to the lcd-hype driver - function sendText which sometimes hangs off or rather the function call to that functin doesn´t come back. My question is now if there is a way to write a native driver for that display and minidisplay or are all displays in minidisplay controlled by external drivers? Who can make such a driver? I just dont know who is the right contact person for that request, but what i already know is when i give this question to irtrans they will not feel responsible.

So can you tell me, if it is possible to get a solution for that problem? As you already said: MiniDisplay should work for everyone.

Greeting

Sonny

I've exactly this problem with my Origen S14V

15 days since I tried everything.

I've last driver version of Irtrans, last firmware, put last version Dll'Irtrans found in LCDHype version 1.1 (version 1.0 packaged with MP) in MP directory, this problem is always here..... I've try re-install completly my OS and software, without sucess.

This happens mostly concern when using the remote and never got to use a keyboard.

I'm desperate....MP user.

Will I be forced to change the mediacenter without solutions to this problem? This would be a shame that the only problem I encounter with MP. I hope not ... I love MP and I love my case....


MiniDisplay should work for everyone.

 

[sonnybonds]

GuileZ:
I understand your frustration.
Since my last post I heard nothing more about this from the developers but I still hope that it is possilbe to solve the problem. Till the solution my HTPC has some kind of "beta"-status because i cannot get my wife to use the pc as substitute für CD/DVD-Player when she gets the feeling the pc is unstable or hangs permanently. I am not trying to explain her she has to reset the pc or start tv-kill and restart MP because the WAF (Woman Acceptance Factor) would suffer to much.

But for all that it must be said, that it ist not the fault of the MP developers because this bug is caused by the LCD-HYPE-driver which comes from IRTrans. Normally it would be their business to support a new bug-free LCD-Hype driver but I fear we will wait forever for such a driver.

It would be the best to find a driver-developer who can write a direct driver for the minidisplay-plugin to avoid the faulty LCD-HYPE-driver. That was my last question to the MP developers but I have nothing heard about that anymore only that chemelli the developer of the minidisplay-plugin can not write such a driver by himself.

@MP-Developers: Is there something new about this issue? Who can write minidisplay-drivers?
Me an some other users would be glad to hear from you.

Greetings

Sonny

 

[chemelli]

Sonny, Guilez,

I'm sorry to ear you have a issue related to MiniDisplay, but unfortunately nobody of us own your device so the interest in writing a driver from scratch is very low.
I also miss some knowledge to help on this task.

Only think you can do is find a good programmer that is interested in both MP and IrTRans VF210-Display.

Simone