[WINDOWS] XBMC on iMON Display (LCD / VFD) for Windows

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- tomer953 - 2010-11-04 19:31

Thanks a lot.
in the music its a little diffrent
Now every few seconds the bars change into the current position, but only for 1 second, and then reset !

Log:
http://pastebin.com/5AYHMu20

1. run XBMC 2. Music libary 3. choose Rihanna album
4. Play rihanna - hard.mp3
5. let the music play for a half minute ~
6. then play\pause few times
7. exit

- Montellese - 2010-11-04 19:43

tomer953 Wrote:Thanks a lot.
in the music its a little diffrent
Now every few seconds the bars change into the current position, but only for 1 second, and then reset !

Very interesting as well. This is what I found in the log (I copied it without leaving anything out):

Code:

04/11/2010 19:26:45 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(11197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:26:50 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(16197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:26:55 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(21197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:00 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(26197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:05 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(31197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:10 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(36197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:15 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(41197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:20 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(46197, 250000)

04/11/2010 19:27:25 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(51197, 250000)

To me it looks like the progress is updated correctly. There are a few other updates like these when you paused/resumed playback but nothing that would indicate that the progress bar would be reset.

The only thing I can think of right now is that iMon Manager tries to update the display as well which leads to a problem. Can you please check in the iMon Manager under "iMon Utilities" --> "FrontView" --> "Media Information" if XBMC is disabled as described in the README?

PS: I just fixed the seek update problem which I noticed in your debug log.

- tomer953 - 2010-11-04 21:01

Montellese Wrote:Very interesting as well. This is what I found in the log (I copied it without leaving anything out):

Code:

04/11/2010 19:26:45 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(11197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:26:50 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(16197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:26:55 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(21197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:00 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(26197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:05 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(31197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:10 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(36197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:15 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(41197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:20 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(46197, 250000) 04/11/2010 19:27:25 [iMON] IMON_Display_SetLcdProgress(51197, 250000)

To me it looks like the progress is updated correctly. There are a few other updates like these when you paused/resumed playback but nothing that would indicate that the progress bar would be reset.

The only thing I can think of right now is that iMon Manager tries to update the display as well which leads to a problem. Can you please check in the iMon Manager under "iMon Utilities" --> "FrontView" --> "Media Information" if XBMC is disabled as described in the README?

PS: I just fixed the seek update problem which I noticed in your debug log.

ok, the media Information was enable,
but Gray.. look
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9387/99812834.jpg
why?

so untill I'll find out I did some things:

I change the port in xbmc to 8085, and in your tool too, and there some changes:

1. now the progress bar is not reset after changes, so if I play the movie, the progress bar is work fine, but:
If I skip with the arrow keys, forward, the progress bar doesnt show the correct time, only when I press pause he jump to the correct time.
so if you can update the progress bar when any of the arrow key is pressed it will be just perfect.

2. something else, If in Libary mode, you play file that already played in the past, there is an option in xbmc "Play from the last positon.." so if I choose that option, the movie start from positon X (and not from the beginnig), and the progress bar doest show the correct time again.

Thanks !

- Montellese - 2010-11-04 21:15

tomer953 Wrote:ok, the media Information was enable,
but Gray.. look
http://img709.imageshack.us/img709/9387/99812834.jpg
why?

Hm good question. I can't get it to be greyed out.

tomer953 Wrote:I change the port in xbmc to 8085, and in your tool too, and there some changes:

1. now the progress bar is not reset after changes, so if I play the movie, the progress bar is work fine

So it actually was iMon Manager messing around with the display when it shouldn't *bad iMon Manager*

tomer953 Wrote:If I skip with the arrow keys, forward, the progress bar doesnt show the correct time, only when I press pause he jump to the correct time.
so if you can update the progress bar when any of the arrow key is pressed it will be just perfect.

Yeah I already noticed that (as mentioned before) and fixed it and it will be in the next release.

tomer953 Wrote:2. something else, If in Libary mode, you play file that already played in the past, there is an option in xbmc "Play from the last positon.." so if I choose that option, the movie start from positon X (and not from the beginnig), and the progress bar doest show the correct time again.

Thanks for the report. I will look at it. Might be a similar problem as the other one but I'll let you know when I fixed it.

- tomer953 - 2010-11-04 21:23

Thanks!
and If you can find a solution to the volume problem it will be great,
becasue anyone with keyboard that include vol up\down buttons will have that problem...

I have an idea, maybe every 5 seconds the title will be refresh too (like the progress bar), so the volume bar will disapear..

edit:
and to add option to Disable the "Baloons" tips from the taskbar

- Montellese - 2010-11-04 21:31

tomer953 Wrote:I have an idea, maybe every 5 seconds the title will be refresh too (like the progress bar), so the volume bar will disapear..

I wish it were that simple Wink

The problem with updating the text on the display every X seconds is that this will break scrolling text. Imagine a very long text scrolling on the display and you are reading it and *bang* the text is reset.

tomer953 Wrote:and to add option to Disable the "Baloons" tips from the taskbar

Good idea, will certainly be available in the next release.

- NorDemoniac - 2010-11-04 22:44

Will test this on my "Antec Fusion Remote" chassis (with the RM200).

I just saw the imon manager update "support for 3rd party plugin." It took me like two seconds of thinking, and I googled "XBMC IMON VFD", and what do you know? Big Grin

Will response after trying this out.

- Montellese - 2010-11-04 22:56

NorDemoniac Wrote:Will test this on my "Antec Fusion Remote" chassis (with the RM200).

I just saw the imon manager update "support for 3rd party plugin." It took me like two seconds of thinking, and I googled "XBMC IMON VFD", and what do you know?

Will response after trying this out.

I could really use some feedback from someone with an iMON VFD as I only have an LCD. So I simply try to split up the text on the two available lines but I have no clue how it actually looks like. Feel free to provide suggestions on how to split things up or change strings etc.

- tomer953 - 2010-11-04 23:34

Montellese Wrote:I wish it were that simple The problem with updating the text on the display every X seconds is that this will break scrolling text. Imagine a very long text scrolling on the display and you are reading it and *bang* the text is reset.

hammm, any way to know when the scorlling is finish, then refresh?
plan B, is let us set the X seconds, in my libary I think 5 seconds will be enoughe for the longest song\movie.. In yours - set whatever you want..
but is not such a good idea, and you better to auto calculate when to refresh

- NorDemoniac - 2010-11-05 13:00

Hey dude!

My brain is struggling to find out which port it should be.

It says "127.0.0.1" and port 8080. Why port 8080? Something I have to do with this port? I use 6060 for the web-server on XBMC (remote on iPhone).

When I click connect, I just get an error...

Edit:

LOL, maybe I should write the correct password.

So - I filled in the web-server info, and IT's connected.

Will test for a couple of days now.