Support Request: Medion Titanium MD8800 - External Display (1 Viewer)

[Practitioner]

Started on: 2007-01-14
last update: 2007-01-14

Summary:
Support for the Medion Titanium MD8800 - External Display (identifies itself as SG-1788 ver 1.0)
16x2 VFD with some additional display capabilities


Description:

I have seen quite a number of people running MP on this machine. In the External Display plugin, I could not find a suitable type for this display. My skillbase is not sufficient to set this up, but here is some research I did:

Here is what it looks like:
View attachment 2661

Here is some background how people got it to work under Linux:
http://www.martinm-76.dk/forum/index.php?topic=10.0
http://lists.omnipotent.net/pipermail/lcdproc/2006-May/010826.html

As far as I understood, it listens to COM1 at 9600 baud 8n*2*, no flow control.

The following commands have been identified so far by Martin Møller (octal notation):

\33\0abcdef (abcdef can be anything, it seems) - set clock, I think.
	   	The mapping is: bb:aa dd.cc.eeff
	   	Date values are entered in hex, e.g. :
		0x18 0x08 0x05 0x04 0x20 0x06 for 8:18 04.05.2006

\33\1 - 24 hour clock
\33\2 - 12 hour clock (AM/PM)
\33\3 - Stop clock from moving around
\33\4 - Moving clock
\33\5 - Show clock

\33\40 - 2-line mode, clearing at end of last line.
\33\41 - Only write to line1, no clearing, 
         automatic scroll to the left when display is full.
\33\42 - Only write to line2, no clearing, 
         automatic scroll to the left when display is full.

  (d is in the range 0-4. Anything above 4 is full brightness, b = 0/1):
==============================================================================
\33\60\00\d - brightness of 'hdd'   icon. \33\60\00\0 clears the 'hdd'   icon.
\33\60\01\d - brightness of '1394'  icon. \33\60\01\0 clears the '1394'  icon.
\33\60\02\d - brightness of 'cdrom' icon. \33\60\02\0 clears the 'cdrom' icon.
\33\60\03\d - brightness of 'usb'   icon. \33\60\03\0 clears the 'usb'   icon.
\33\60\04\d - brightness of 'movie' icon. \33\60\04\0 clears the 'movie' icon.
\33\60\05\d - brightness of 'tv'    icon. \33\60\05\0 clears the 'tv'    icon.
\33\60\06\d - brightness of 'music' icon. \33\60\06\0 clears the 'music' icon.
\33\60\07\d - brightness of 'photo' icon. \33\60\07\0 clears the 'photo' icon.
\33\60\10\d - recording light on/off.
\33\60\11\b - email icon on/off.
\33\60\12\b - email icon red on/off.
\33\60\13\b - volume bar (least) on/off.
\33\60\14\b - volume bar on/off.
\33\60\15\b - volume bar on/off.
\33\60\16\b - volume bar on/off.
\33\60\17\b - volume bar on/off.
\33\60\20\b - volume bar on/off.
\33\60\21\b - volume bar (most) on/off.
\33\60\22\b - red light beneath volume bars on/off (ie max volume)
\33\60\23\b - speaker icon on/off
\33\60\24\b - muted speaker icon on/off (they are adjacent, not overlapping)
\33\60\25\b - red wifi/sound bar (least) on/off.
\33\60\26\b - red wifi/sound bar on/off.
\33\60\27\b - red wifi/sound bar (most) on/off.
\33\60\30\b - (de)activate bounding box around first 4 icons (hdd,1394,cd,usb)
\33\60\31\b - (de)activate bounding box around second 4 icons (movie,tv,music,photos)
\33\60\32\b - (de)activate bounding box around record and 'play/pause/whatever' icon.
\33\60\33\b - (de)activate bounding box around email icon.
\33\60\34\b - (de)activate bounding box around volume icons.

\33\62x - Don't know yet.
\33\63x - Don't know yet.
\33\61abcdefghi - Show graphics in 'multimedia' icon based on bitmap represented by 'abcdefghi'.
                  Graphics are 9 7-bit bitmaps. Values are given from the right-up, moving towards the left.
                  See examples in MD8800.c.

\33\100\d - Brightness. d=0-5, i.e. 6 levels, from black to 'shiny'.  :)
\33\120   - reset again (soft?). Acts as a 'clear' command. Doesn't unset some things.
\33\121   - pos1.
\33\122   - turn on display.
\33\123   - turn off display (you can still write to it and '\33\122' will show the result.
\33\124   - demo condition. The display is 'raining' and the icons are dancing  :) . \33\120 cannot reset it. \37 can.
\33\360   - vertical bars in each character slot.
\33\361   - horizontal bars in each character slot.
\33\365   - Product and version! : SG-1788 ver 1.0

\37 - Reset display (yay!)

Anything is appreciated! As I own the machine, I am volunteering as a tester (given 1-2 weeks time).

Thank You,
Practitioner