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RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - gibxxi - 2013-04-02 Hi herrnst, Thanks for making this. Just managed to get it working on OpenELEC after a lot of head-scratching. Couple of questions / observations: Spinning disk seems to "judder" a bit on screen update. Despite notes on alignment in the changelog the text with the "Marquee" setting in XBMC still defaults to left justified. Is this requiring an LCD.xml to be centralized for the first row (scrolling second row)? Also on the iMON LCD displays, the dual top/bottom bars are of differing thickness (inners thinner than outers) and I would like to set the outer bars as "progress" and the inners as "always on" like occurs in Windows with iMon Manager. could the add-on be extended to allow for this? Currently as soon as something starts playing the "menu" bars are turned off. RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-02 Hi, (2013-04-02, 21:45)gibxxi Wrote: Spinning disk seems to "judder" a bit on screen update.Yep, seems to be a problem in the imonlcd driver. You may have also noticed that at some times it spins faster, sometime slower. When spinning slower, it doesn't show the juddering. (2013-04-02, 21:45)gibxxi Wrote: Despite notes on alignment in the changelog the text with the "Marquee" setting in XBMC still defaults to left justified. Is this requiring an LCD.xml to be centralized for the first row (scrolling second row)?You need to put the (pseudo-)label "$INFO[LCD.AlignCenter]" somewhere inside the <line>-tag you want to display centered. The marquee setting just changes the way text is scrolled (if it is scrolled) from "running-through" to "bounce left-right". (2013-04-02, 21:45)gibxxi Wrote: Also on the iMON LCD displays, the dual top/bottom bars are of differing thickness (inners thinner than outers) and I would like to set the outer bars as "progress" and the inners as "always on" like occurs in Windows with iMon Manager. could the add-on be extended to allow for this? Currently as soon as something starts playing the "menu" bars are turned off.That's currently not possible but really easy to implement as another extrabar-option. Have a look at GIT master the next days/weeks or wait for 1.3.0/2.3.0 to appear in the official repo Regards, nst RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - billyx - 2013-04-07 While playing videos or music the backlight or display is turnd on and off every 5 seconds. It happens only while playing, not while pause or during navigation in xbmc. Somebody knows how to stop this? RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-07 (2013-04-02, 21:45)gibxxi Wrote: Also on the iMON LCD displays, the dual top/bottom bars are of differing thickness (inners thinner than outers) and I would like to set the outer bars as "progress" and the inners as "always on" like occurs in Windows with iMon Manager. could the add-on be extended to allow for this? Currently as soon as something starts playing the "menu" bars are turned off.Please update the addon to latest GIT master (new option committed at c1402f1), or if you prefer to keep the stable version e.g. installed via the addon repository, wait for 1.3/2.3 to appear. Both ways (will) have a new possible value "alwayson" which you can set for the extrabars. In case of the imonlcd and your requirement, assign the value to extrabar3 and 4. (2013-04-07, 21:41)billyx Wrote: While playing videos or music the backlight or display is turnd on and off every 5 seconds. It happens only while playing, not while pause or during navigation in xbmc.Have a look at this posting, especially the paragraphs about the "ServerScreen" LCDd configuration option, that should fix your problem. Regards, nst RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - billyx - 2013-04-11 (2013-04-07, 21:41)billyx Wrote: While playing videos or music the backlight or display is turnd on and off every 5 seconds. It happens only while playing, not while pause or during navigation in xbmc.Have a look at this posting, especially the paragraphs about the "ServerScreen" LCDd configuration option, that should fix your problem. [/quote] Thank you, <disableonplay></disableonplay> solved it! RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - aircooler - 2013-04-27 Hi, Thank you for great addon! All working good other than screensaver. When using LCD.time all i am getting is artefacts. I have checked LCD.xml and all looks good. My display is Imon vfd. Thank you RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-27 (2013-04-27, 04:04)aircooler Wrote: All working good other than screensaver. When using LCD.time all i am getting is artefacts. I have checked LCD.xml and all looks good. My display is Imon vfd. From my understanding on how the IMON VFDs work (and looking in server/drivers/imon.lcd in the LCDproc sources), big numbers should be displayed using ASCII chars as the display seems to be unable to handle custom chars, so any artifacts (random/garbage chars) should not happen at all. Please make sure you have XBMC's internal LCD/VFD support disabled (set "Settings - System - Video output - Enable LCD/VFD" to off). Also, please use this exact config block in your LCD.xml (take special care of exact wording and upper/lower case letters of the $INFO tag!): Code: <screensaver> That should get it going. Regards, nst RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - aircooler - 2013-04-27 Thank you for reply! Internal support for LCD has beed disabled so that is no issue. I have put LCD.TimeWide21 to LCD.xml and the result i am getting is something like: I ]. I ] I [ . I [ Same results with LCD.Time21 Thank you RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-27 (2013-04-27, 13:16)aircooler Wrote: Internal support for LCD has beed disabled so that is no issue. That's the expected result (I also get this when developing using the xosd-driver). As written, the imon vfd driver plus hardware has no means of defining custom chars for this, so unfortunately this is the most you will get out of this - there's nothing the addon can do to make the result better. Greetings, nst RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - aircooler - 2013-04-27 Thank you for explaining issue. Regards Andrzej RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - Poncho - 2013-04-27 Hi, thank you for the great addon, working pretty good. I only have one question, I seem to have a blank screen inbetween the "normal" ones. It switches, if no action during navigation or movie / video player is given in this order: General Screen Server Screen (not switched of so far for testing) Blank Screen it seems to be a normal Screen, cause the blank one also stays for the setup time periode like all other screens. How can I find out which screen that is, and switch it off? thanks for any help. RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-28 (2013-04-27, 23:55)Poncho Wrote: Hi, thank you for the great addon, working pretty good.Thanks (2013-04-27, 23:55)Poncho Wrote: I only have one question, I seem to have a blank screen inbetween the "normal" ones. This pretty much sounds like the ServerScreen option in LCDd.conf, or the disableonplay config var in LCD.xml - please check this post for more information. Regards, nst RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - aircooler - 2013-04-28 Would like to ask one more question about imon vfd. Often getting some kind of errors on the screen. It always happen on the top line. line 1: Home HOME line 2: Programs In that example capital "HOME" appear from time to time. Sometimes its every 20 seconds, sometimes few times per second. Home is just a example, any other screen can have this issue. Its something like mirror of the beginning line. Issue is always from start, but another restart make it appear less often. Thank you for help. RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - herrnst - 2013-04-28 (2013-04-28, 01:59)aircooler Wrote: Often getting some kind of errors on the screen. It always happen on the top line. Strange. Never heard of such an issue until now, even from other imonvfd users, and I cannot think of any reason (caused by the addon) that would cause that. What exact version are you using? If you're installing from the addon repo, can you try the current version from GIT master? @all: Did anyone else notice such behavior yet, even with any other display hardware? RE: XBMC LCDproc Python addon (testing needed) - Poncho - 2013-04-28 (2013-04-28, 00:21)herrnst Wrote: This pretty much sounds like the ServerScreen option in LCDd.conf, or the disableonplay config var in LCD.xml - please check this post for more information. Hi Nst, my LCD.xml looks like following: Code: <lcd> my LCDd.conf looks like following (some long comments removed to shorten it): The Heartbeat I switched on to see, if its a communication problem, but also in the blank screen the Heartbeat is shown. As you can see, meanwhile I switched off the Server screen as long as a client is connected, so it is not shown anymore. Code: # LCDd.conf -- configuration file for the LCDproc server daemon LCDd If you need any log, or debug just tell me how (I'm a pretty noob at Linux but willing to learn ) Danke |