Zalman HD135 VFD (VlSys Mplay) (1 Viewer)

[-Manfred-]

I haven't check the test button. If remember correctly it is not reliable. Also when clicking that it might will jam com port and that is why you see '!' on setup. That is a small issue and we should focus to fan control as it has never worked right. Btw I'm not the author of this plugin but after granted developer status started to work with this.

 

[Cyb1980]

Please post/attach your patch so it can be considered & included.

I attach text of two functions (tested with my MZ4 and work well). In case you worry about complexity increasing due to long "switch" for each symbol, it can be easily replaced with small constant table, where adress can be generated as symbol code minus code of first symbol... but I think it is not a problem

Thanks to you reply.

 

[-Manfred-]

Thanks. Do you have that spec around so we can support also ä,ö,å.

Did you try fan control? Should work as you have the same model as I do.

 

[Cyb1980]

Thanks. Do you have that spec around so we can support also ä,ö,å.

I only found pdf for our VFD version with asian characters, but in my version another character set - european. It can be determined by checking chip model (main chip on the other side of VFD board, need to remove board with connectors to see it).
Really I tryed to output all symbols from 0..255 and checked the output on the display. As I remember, symbols 'ä,ö,å' are located somewhere at the end of table...

Did you try fan control? Should work as you have the same model as I do.

In your new version not yet... really, I have only one fan connected to VFD, and in previous SVN version fan control not worked.

BTW, I want to report about another problem I have. When I press any button on remote first time after portal start, no reaction occurs. But after it remote work well. I checked log file, and it seems that for first pressing of button, only flushing data buffers performs... do you have similar result?

 

[-Manfred-]

Yes, first key press is ignored with official version. This new version should be ok.

 

[Cyb1980]

Try table 7-7 at page 20 from attached datasheet. It same to ours

 

[LoDeNo]

Yes, first key press is ignored with official version. This new version should be ok.

Interesting. I have the same problem, I'm going to try the new version.
Manfred, any suggestion for the best way to use Bus Hound (about my previous post)?

 

[-Manfred-]

äöå... are already supported but there is translation done for those. Delete all TranslateFrom - TranslateTo items from MiniDisplay.xml and all are displayed nicely.

Bus Hound is easy to use. Just select under Devices - USB serial port (COM3) and hit Capture - Run. Now you should see some messages if MHC or MP is active. Notice that free version stops quite soon so keep hitting run button.

Now you have to play with MHC:
case #1 - MHC startup with static fan speed
- keep BH active and hit run
- start MHC (first remember to activate its fan control to some speed) so we can see what are the fan init commands
- store capture when you are sure that log is fine

case #2 - AFC
- make changes to MCH so AFC is used
- BH running
- start MHC

Because BH will only show limited numbers of messages this is a bit tricky to get right logs. But just keep hitting the run button when making changes - one at time - we should be able to reverse engineer also your model.

 

[LoDeNo]

Downloading .... Done
Installing .......... Processing
Testing ............. To do

 

[LoDeNo]

Here are the results, following your advices :

C1 means Case1 = DFM
C2 means Case2 = AFM


c1 -70DFM.txt
Configuration MHC for Direct Fan Mode 70%
close MHC
Running BH
running MHC
save BH trace

C1 -80DFM.txt
Configuration MHC for Direct Fan Mode 80%
close MHC
Running BH
running MHC
save BH trace


c1toc2 -80DFM to AFM32C.txt
Configuration MHC for Direct Fan Mode 80%
close MHC
Running BH
running MHC
Changing to Automatic Fan Mode (limit 32C, actual sensor temp 41C)
save BH trace


c2 -AFM32C (sensor 42C).txt
Configuration Automatic Fan Mode (limit 32C, actual sensor temp 42C)
close MHC
Running BH
running MHC
save BH trace


c2toC1 -AFM32C to DFM80.txt
Configuration Automatic Fan Mode (limit 32C, actual sensor temp 42C)
close MHC
Running BH
running MHC
Changing to Direct Fan Mode 80%
save BH trace