[Help] - LCD - Alaska Revisited

Jimmeh Wrote:I have an origen case, and after spending what seems like weeks trawling through lcdproc guides (all of which are between 5 and 1 year out of date) I eventually gave up.

If you have your VFD working on linux, or even better on xbmc-live 10.1 I'd love to hear how exactly you are doing that. It has pretty much driven me to tears at this point.

You could test if it works with openelec out of the box (on a usb drive), you need to choose the IRtrans as the driver via the openlec addon.

Regards,

Mark

PS if that works I could help you find the stuff we used to get it working under Openelec.

deraaij Wrote:You could test if it works with openelec out of the box (on a usb drive), you need to choose the IRtrans as the driver via the openlec addon.

Regards,

Mark

PS if that works I could help you find the stuff we used to get it working under Openelec.

I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back. Thanks

Jimmeh Wrote:I'll give it a try tomorrow and report back. Thanks

Np! Goodluck.

deraaij Wrote:Np! Goodluck.

I'm reading through the openelec documentation now and it looks as if it can replace my live installation anyway.

However, nowhere on the site does it say what versions of things it contains (like XBMC) or what features it has over an XBMC live installation other than being quick and easy to setup.

Guess I will have to give it a try and find out for myself. Working on that now

No luck so far, the screen doesn't have a display at all, not even the default welcome message so I'm wondering if its even possible to get working in linux. Its a VF310, maybe you were lucky enough to get a VF210 and yours works out of the box

Trying to figure out how to edit the lirc config on openelec, not getting very far. Gah!

Just tried a development build 20110612, set it to imon and it now says "Welcome to OpenElec" on the screen. I'm so happy I could cry tears of joy. Now I just need to figure out how to make it work with XBMC

Jimmeh Wrote:No luck so far, the screen doesn't have a display at all, not even the default welcome message so I'm wondering if its even possible to get working in linux. Its a VF310, maybe you were lucky enough to get a VF210 and yours works out of the box

Trying to figure out how to edit the lirc config on openelec, not getting very far. Gah!

Just tried a development build 20110612, set it to imon and it now says "Welcome to OpenElec" on the screen. I'm so happy I could cry tears of joy. Now I just need to figure out how to make it work with XBMC

Hi did you find the Openelec addon where you can choose IRTRANS? Did you reboot after that? BTW I do indeed have the VF210. BTW I would also try with the LIRC option.

PS if nothing works have a look at: http://www.htpc-wiki.de/wiki/OrigenAE_S10V

Regards,

Mark

I tried all 3 settings with reboots between and the most successful appears to be the imon driver. I now have "Welcome to OpenELEC" on the screen, which is further than I've gotten with any other install.

I've also read through that link, but it involves editing files which are read-only in openelec, like lircd.conf, so I'm not sure if I can use an editable version, and where it has to be located.

I've tried adding the <haslcd> switch in my advancedsettings.xml but I still only see the welcome message, no change or input based on xbmc actions.

I am going to make a specific thread on the openelec forums, but if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Edit: Thread here http://openelec.tv/forum/14-general-help...-requested

Cheers.

Jimmeh Wrote:I tried all 3 settings with reboots between and the most successful appears to be the imon driver. I now have "Welcome to OpenELEC" on the screen, which is further than I've gotten with any other install.

I've also read through that link, but it involves editing files which are read-only in openelec, like lircd.conf, so I'm not sure if I can use an editable version, and where it has to be located.

I've tried adding the <haslcd> switch in my advancedsettings.xml but I still only see the welcome message, no change or input based on xbmc actions.

I am going to make a specific thread on the openelec forums, but if anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

Edit: Thread here http://openelec.tv/forum/14-general-help...-requested

Cheers.

LCD solved see openelec forum.