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<blockquote data-quote="cybrmage" data-source="post: 219417" data-attributes="member: 51680"><p>Ummm... NO COMMENT!! 8-}</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Can you provide a snoop on the serial port showing both data sent to the display and data received from the display when the MHC software starts up? It would be nice to know what data is sent back from the display during the initialization.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The brightness should be controllable by setting the contrast slider on the ExternalDisplay configuration screen.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Do the fan speed control sliders on the advanced configuration screen not work?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The question is, how do we distinguish between data sent from the display in response to a tempurature request, and data send by the display as the result of a remote button being pressed?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Ich weiss nicht lesen oder schreiben Deutsch!!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>All I'm doing right now is ignoring the 0x7E returned with the button code.</p><p></p><p>From what I could determine from your logs... Each remote button press generates two bytes... the key code and 0x7E. So the question is... does holding down a button result in two bytes of 0x7E, or a single byte of 0x7E after getting the initial two bytes for the button press?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>That's probably the best way to handle the "repeat" of remote buttons...</p><p></p><p>But... I need to know exactly what is sent by the display...</p><p></p><p>Please install the new driver (I have added increased logging to the received data routines)... Then run mediaportal... The press and hold one button on the remote... then shutdown MediaPortal and post the mediaportal.log. Thanks.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yeah... Good luck with that!!... The IR receivers that come with some TV and Satellite cards are very problematic... many will only work with the remote that they are bundled with.... You are better off with a cheap Microsoft MCE remote bundle (The old version... silver colored remote not the one with a Vista-Only black remote) if you want ease of use.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It could be... The quick test I did indicates that the ExternalDisplay handler is sending the text to the display driver with the umlauts already changed to "?"... I haven't yet found where this translation is taking place... still looking.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Your long comments are NOT taken as complaining or nagging... The information presented is very helpful and appreciated... (much better that the usual "the driver doesn't work... fix it" comments that I usually get!)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The entire "mr" series and some of thier "retail" units all seem to be based on the same basic hardware... So hopefully, this driver will work with all the different versions.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Anyways... here is a new version...</p><p></p><p>I've added the extra commands to the shutdown procedure and extra logging to the serial receive routine... Hopefully it will give the info needed to get the button repeat to work.</p><p></p><p>Regards,</p><p>CybrMage</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cybrmage, post: 219417, member: 51680"] Ummm... NO COMMENT!! 8-} Can you provide a snoop on the serial port showing both data sent to the display and data received from the display when the MHC software starts up? It would be nice to know what data is sent back from the display during the initialization. The brightness should be controllable by setting the contrast slider on the ExternalDisplay configuration screen. Do the fan speed control sliders on the advanced configuration screen not work? The question is, how do we distinguish between data sent from the display in response to a tempurature request, and data send by the display as the result of a remote button being pressed? Ich weiss nicht lesen oder schreiben Deutsch!! All I'm doing right now is ignoring the 0x7E returned with the button code. From what I could determine from your logs... Each remote button press generates two bytes... the key code and 0x7E. So the question is... does holding down a button result in two bytes of 0x7E, or a single byte of 0x7E after getting the initial two bytes for the button press? That's probably the best way to handle the "repeat" of remote buttons... But... I need to know exactly what is sent by the display... Please install the new driver (I have added increased logging to the received data routines)... Then run mediaportal... The press and hold one button on the remote... then shutdown MediaPortal and post the mediaportal.log. Thanks. Yeah... Good luck with that!!... The IR receivers that come with some TV and Satellite cards are very problematic... many will only work with the remote that they are bundled with.... You are better off with a cheap Microsoft MCE remote bundle (The old version... silver colored remote not the one with a Vista-Only black remote) if you want ease of use. It could be... The quick test I did indicates that the ExternalDisplay handler is sending the text to the display driver with the umlauts already changed to "?"... I haven't yet found where this translation is taking place... still looking. Your long comments are NOT taken as complaining or nagging... The information presented is very helpful and appreciated... (much better that the usual "the driver doesn't work... fix it" comments that I usually get!) The entire "mr" series and some of thier "retail" units all seem to be based on the same basic hardware... So hopefully, this driver will work with all the different versions. Anyways... here is a new version... I've added the extra commands to the shutdown procedure and extra logging to the serial receive routine... Hopefully it will give the info needed to get the button repeat to work. Regards, CybrMage [/QUOTE]
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