Updated iMON (Soundgraph) LCD Driver (1 Viewer)

[ravenrocks]

Much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

 

[deathnite]

Hey Cybermage,

I thought it was finally time to open up and personally thank you for all your work with developing this. I am a mate of DARKAZ. We were going to try and dev this issue as both have the same ANTEC V2 Black cases. Since you ran so well with it we decided that you were much better as this than we could be in such a short time.
You should release this back to antec or soundgraph for royalties <SMIRK>
I have been watching this thread since the first post and have used every released revision successfully...

SO THANKS...

(.....me now goes off to work out how to get the IR to work.....)

Edit: PS.. I also think you should start a new thread, get it made a sticky and keep your latest versions there with install instructions....just a thought

 

[Dubyahjay]

Cybrmage,
I also would like to thank you for your work and continued efforts with this product. I have successfully used each revision and it just keeps getting better and more fleshed out. Thanks for all you do!

 

[cybrmage]

Much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Ok... I know know how the iMON software talks to the 3Rsystems display... but the data format is not overly obvious... so I need you to do some observations for me... The following is what I need you to do....

1) run the iMON software.
2) go to the "iMON Manager" screen... and select "iMON Utilities"/"FrontView".
3) Select "Always" for "Run FrontView when iMON starts".
4) Click on "Apply", then click on "OK", then shut down the iMON software. (right click on the iMON icon in the system tray and select "Exit")
5) Run the iMON software. Watch the display VERY closely... and describe the text that is displayed on the display (as precicely as possible), and the state of the additional icons (in general)

As I said... I have discovered HOW the software talks to the display... but without knowing what is normally displayed on the display, I can't figure out how the data sent to the display is encoded...

Thanks.

I thought it was finally time to open up and personally thank you for all your work with developing this.

I am a mate of DARKAZ.

I haven't seen him post in a while... Tell him "Sorry about the icon and font editors" 8-}

You should release this back to antec or soundgraph for royalties <SMIRK>

Not gonna happen.... I wouldn't knowingly let those butchers near my code... 8-}

I have been watching this thread since the first post....

Damn lurkers!!!! 8-} (JK!)

SO THANKS...

Your welcome.

(.....me now goes off to work out how to get the IR to work.....)

Good luck with that... Let me give you some hints...

The only functions called by the iMON software are:
iMONRC_Init
iMONRC_CheckDriverVersion
iMONRC_Uninit
iMONRC_ChangeiMONRCSet
iMONRC_ChangeRC6
iMONRC_GetFirmwareVer
iMONRC_GetHWType

The last 2 entries are used to determine the type of display that is attached... All the other functions in the DLL are unused (or at least, the are not used directly by the iMON software).

It appears that the iMON software initializes the hardware using the SG_RC.dll, then waits for events on the USB bus and responds to them without using the DLL... but I haven't looked into much further than this...

Also... You may want to get the latest v7 beta of the iMON software from the Soundgraph site... It does not have any restrictions that prevent it from being used with the Antec hardware.

Cybrmage,
I also would like to thank you for your work and continued efforts with this product. I have successfully used each revision and it just keeps getting better and more fleshed out. Thanks for all you do!

Your welcome.





UPDATE: Although SoundGraph states that v7beta is unrestricted, it will not operate with the VFD from the original Antec Fusion case!! (But it does work with the LCD in the Antec Fusion Black)

 

[ravenrocks]

Instead of reading the display I photographed it.
Attaching jpeg.

 

[parkuhr]

important feature rquest!

hi. great work.

well, if mp is in standby/hibernation it only show the message: mp isn t active.
thats not so nice...

plse can you implement that it shows date and time?



regards

parkuhr

 

[cybrmage]

Instead of reading the display I photographed it.
Attaching jpeg.

Thanks... Is it a static display? does it change? or does only the time shown change?

if mp is in standby/hibernation it only show the message: mp isn t active.
.
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plse can you implement that it shows date and time?

No. The VFD hardware does not support a clock display. You get a stadby message or the display turned off... Select "background" on the settings page to have it turn the display off.

 

[cybrmage]

ravenrocks:

Here is a test version... again... no guarantees... you MUST rerun configure and you MUST select AutoDetect as the display type. Good Luck!

 

[parkuhr]

its a vfd display.

not thats not true. if have let fronview runnin in automatic mode, i get even displayed time and date, if the computer is off!!


regards

parkuhr

 

[cybrmage]

its a vfd display.

not thats not true. if have let fronview runnin in automatic mode, i get even displayed time and date, if the computer is off!!


regards

parkuhr

Maybe on your hardware.... (you haven't bother to mention what your hardware is... who makes it, Firmware version, hardware type)

On the VFD hardware I have, it is not supported...
SoundGraph indicates that the VFD (that I have) does not have a built-in clock...
The last time that this issue was discussed, no one mentioned that their hardware would display a clock on shutdown...
The API exposes no known way to set a clock for the VFD...
So... For all intent and purpose (until concrete information to the contrary is available) It is not possible.