MiniDisplay: iMON driver code cleanup, please test ! (1 Viewer)

[chemelli]

I get a fault when on the myTV (not fullscreen TV) page go to turn on the tv - no timeshifting, then hit esc to go to home page. If you go back into myTV, hit escape again -- it causes an error forcing MP to close. For some reason my logs get recreated immediately as MP is still somehow running in the background. I can consistently create the error, first time was an accident. If I go back to the 1.0.2 dll, no error. I'll try to get the logs, but they get recreated immediately after the error.

As you say "no timeshifting", I guess you are on TVE2.
I'm sorry you are still on the old engine. I know nothing about it and we are going to remove its support from the next release...

So why not switch to TVE3 ?

Simone

 

[Frantid]

So why not switch to TVE3 ?

Simone

Hi Simone,

My analog card has a ntsc tuner, but I use the component inputs with a PAL STB. Unfortunately, TVE3 does not force the component inputs to PAL after a reboot - though the channels are setup as PAL. I can force them manually, but I would have to do it every time. It's just not a good solution for the main tv in the house. I do check TVE3 out after every release, but I'm afraid I'm a small minority of users out there and I doubt this will get worked on. My htpc is near perfect now though thanks to you and the other developers, so it's OK. I really don't need to upgrade past 1.0.2. I will definitely switch if I buy a new tvcard.

 

[disaster123]

Has anybody already tested new Imon 7.6 ?

 

[thesystemera]

Yeah seems to be fine... 7.6 that is... What I am curios about is none of my small icons seem to be working... No left right sound, no music icons, no mp3. Just nothing? Any ideas

 

[1stdead]

Hi Chemelli.
(you helped me via teamviewer yesterday)
I had a very funny accident or maybe experince. Ad you know i have a HID display and it was impossible to make my remote work with minidisplay. BUT right now it's acually working with the imon, MP, minidisplay and my MCE remote! Even though I just the arrows work, the rest is not configured in imon i guess. Another very very funny thing is that my display is fucked up.
I started some music and the displayed showed which speakers were playing(actually the wrong ones), but that has never worked before inside MP for me. Another thing is that the display shows a mixture of equlizer and the iMON standart messages or CPU/RAM use.
So everything is actually working 50% now And I don't know what happend.

Still using imon 7.4 was planning to update, but this ... well?

I added some logs, didn't dare to close MP so hopefully they will work.
My log is currently 122mb and keeps growing, here's a bit of it

 

[globaldonkey]

Maybe it has something to do with the multiple tray icons that once were there or the disabling of frontview.
Please fix that bug - its so annoying

Greetings

Joe

Yeah it's the disabling / enabling of frontview that does that and throws the focus to the system tray. There are some version of firmware that can avoid having frontview running, and you can disable the options regarding frontview in MiniDisplay, and everything supposedly works (I think you'll need IRSS in this case to drive the remote). If you are lucky enough, you can get it to work this way. Personally, my version of firmware just won't work without frontview, and I have lived with the problem.

 

[JoeSmith]

Yeah it's the disabling / enabling of frontview that does that and throws the focus to the system tray. There are some version of firmware that can avoid having frontview running, and you can disable the options regarding frontview in MiniDisplay, and everything supposedly works (I think you'll need IRSS in this case to drive the remote). If you are lucky enough, you can get it to work this way. Personally, my version of firmware just won't work without frontview, and I have lived with the problem.

You are on point. if i set frontview to never all my problems are gone. The only bad thing is that frontview is a good way of seeing that the htpc is on (if you know it should record...)
Would be great if the minidisplay would one day support the tvserver and show an active recording in the display.

@chemelli
in what way will soundgraph work together with the devs ? I read that a tech eng will help to make the displays work better.
Are they going to provide an interface so that mp doesn't need any "real" drivers anymore.Would be nice if you could also fix readability a bit (i was never able to get bigger fonts or something like that) because the blue displays are really hard to read if you are more than 2m away.

 

[Mr.Montesa]

Hello *,
I have Thermaltake DH101 with Display (FW: 0x380102); Upgraded to latest iMOn Manager (7.6) and installed the debug MiniDisplay.
Everything working fine so far, but I havent tested anything yet.

I'd like to recommend something about usability. The "advanced" tab is for really advanced users. There are so many things to tick or not to tick.
For me it looks like they were invented to workaround some disadvantages of iMon, or? Like "Force restart after driver start".
Its not clear to me what this tick does, and what it is meant for.

In fact I suggest creating some hover effects that explain what the tick does or solve the problem with the Soundgraph pros and remove it.

Thanks a lot for your plugin & keep up the good work!
rgds,

 

[chemelli]

@all: please test iMON 7.6 and let us know if it solves some of the well known issues...

Simone

 

[disaster123]

chemelli
one of the worst issues is that i've to check restart imon in advanced tap to get the imon remote work on both imon pcs. But this is also not solved with 7.6