Soundgraph iMon LCD - display icons

Ohhh you have one of the VFD type displays.

http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p...t&area=usa

This is what I have...I would love an app that utilizes it in a useful way for linux.

How could I extend this to get the title of the currently playing file? Is there any way?

XBMC already displays the currently playing file in the main area of the display. This script is purely to activate the icons around the edge of the display.

speed32219 Wrote:Great! Good job, I will check it out later this week I always wanted to get that working. Did you find a command that would turn off the display? Like, when a movie is playing the display would go black. I know XBMC has an option to not display messages during playback, but that darn backlight is awefull bright.

I thought I found a command to turn it off, but it is more like a compiled program, can't read it.

Turning off the display is very easy actually: XBMC should send the "backlight off" command when blanking and "backlight on" when it resumes (edit: it does.

This will require the backlight to actually turn off though, a feature that has just recently been enabled in LCDd for the imonlcd driver (it is most likely in the 0.5.3 release and for certain in the CVS version).

@Phantasm4489: Awesome work! I haven't tested it yet but as soon as I get it to work on my VFD display (imon 0038) I'll post a picture

Edit: forgot that the HTTP interface is hopelessly broken in 64-bit As soon as the SVN gets stable again I'll update as the webservice got fixed 8 weeks ago

Edit2: XBMC already turns off the display when blanking, I didn't see that before because I just updated to the latest drivers myself...

Phantasm4489 Wrote:anywhere you like. Just save it to a file somewhere and chmod +x it.
So for example you can save it to ~/imon.perl and then do chmod +x ~/imon.perl

Once this is done you can just run it from a shell using ~/imon.perl

You should also be able to add this to the startup applications.

Hello!
Would this script work on a windows machine also? or is it Linux specific?

//trakster

No: it requires the Linux iMon driver and its interface to toggle icons

great job - it's working very well for me

I's there any hope for icons for video/audio codec?

it is also working here, thanks. has anyone looked into integrating this in xbmc core? i imagine it would make sense to have some sort of a highlighting framework to consider different LCD-s, but i havent looked at the LCD handling source yet.

Worked for me! Really cool thank you! It looks nice on my Antec Microfusion 350!
At the beginning i only forgot to activate the webinterface in XBMC

cheers,
David

qnox Wrote:I's there any hope for icons for video/audio codec?

Hi there,
yes, I'm working on it (to use all its icons and progress-bars) for a while now and it's getting pretty complete. Unfortunately, the svn-cleanups and change from "linuxport" to "trunk" seems to bare some problems, as XBMC does not start correctly any more. After a successful build, though .
I have to wait until these problems have been solved. I will announce a patch here when I have a satisfying code base.

Greets,
Chriss