Nik1984 Wrote:display is now working while playing video.
However no icon's are shown. But nevertheless it is now all working better then I ever hoped!!
Thank you for this guide, really helped me alot!
Nik1984 Wrote:I have another question.
When shutting down my htpc the backlight of my lcd keeps lit, how can I turn the lcd completely of when my htpc is shutdown?
noumenon Wrote:Not possible. Its a known bug in lcdproc. I'm about ready to take a pair of wire cutters to it. Thing drives me nuts, and the damn display isn't that nice.Ok that sucks...
Nik1984 Wrote:display is now working while playing video.
However no icon's are shown. But nevertheless it is now all working better then I ever hoped!!
Thank you for this guide, really helped me alot!
muggi Wrote:hi,Already tried that (and putting imon.pl in another folder and change startup script):
i think i found the mistake in the tutorial.
if you have stored the imon.pl in the root folder, the default user can not read the file, because the root folder has without config only owner permissions.
set the permissions of the root folder to 755 and it should work.
pleas reply if it work and i will update the tutorial
greetz muggi
Quote:xbmc@XBMCLive:~$ sudo ls -l /root/But that didn't work either..
total 4
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2383 2009-12-09 20:18 imon.pl
Nik1984 Wrote:Already tried that (and putting imon.pl in another folder and change startup script):
But that didn't work either..
Perhaps it's because i'm using the 9.11 RC1 (perhaps i should try out switching to camelot now..) and i don't know if lcd things have changed since b1. 
gokudo Wrote:Hey muggi, many thx for this nice guide, I have the same or almost the same case (Silverstone ML02MX) with an imon pad remote and it perfectly helped me setting it up! However, with my imon LCD 0083 i have the problem that it still blanks out during video playback regardless what i change in the LCD.xml.
Anyway, what i did so far is this: I set up the lcd correctly (on ubuntu 9.10), get display information correctly and it also works fine in xbmc menu. I set <disableonplay>video</disableonplay> to <disableonplay></disableonplay> OR delete the whole line in /usr/share/xbmc/userdata/LCD.xml, set display correctly to 16x2, do choose normal test text lines to the <video> tag, whatever i do it will blank out when i start video playback. Don't know what else to look for. I'm not even trying to set up icon playback now i just want to display normal text. Curious enough, when pressing pause the lcd turns on again and displays some info lines, however none of these info lines were entered by me in LCD.xml
muggi Wrote:HiWhen I updated to RC1 the icons worked all of a sudden, no idea why...
did you enabled your Webserver with the Default entrys and wizthout password?
muggi Wrote:may search at /home/.xbmc/userdata/lcd.xml
muggi Wrote:Setup your pretty Imon Icons
This guide based on another Thread in this forum(http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...imon+icons). I added a part here to complete the installation of the lcd. It check over the webserver if something is playing curently. So you have to enable your webserver with the standard port und user and without password
1.go into Terminal as root
1.1 install this perlmodule
sudo apt-get install libwww-perl
1.2 edit LCD.xml to see Text and Icons while playing.
edit /home/xbmc/.xbmc/userdata/lcd.xml
second line edit
Code:<disableonplay>video</disableonplay>
to
<disableonplay></disableonplay>
2. make a file named imon.pl
sudo nano /root/imon.pl
3. paste the folowing code in the file
Code:#!/usr/bin/perl
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use IO::Socket;
my $sockres;
my $sock;
#see here for details of imon lcd driver output control bits
#http://lcdproc.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/lcdproc/lcdproc/server/drivers/imonlcd.c?view=markup
$sock = new IO::Socket::INET (PeerAddr => 'localhost', PeerPort => '13666', Proto => 'tcp', );
die "Could not create socket: $!\n" unless $sock;
print $sock "hello\n";
$sockres = readline $sock;
do
{
my $output = "";
my $progress = 0;
my $icondata = 0;
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new;
my $res = $ua->request(GET 'http://localhost:8080/xbmcCmds/xbmcHttp?command=GetCurrentlyPlaying');
if ($res->is_success)
{
$output = $res->content;
#remove html tags
$output =~ s/<html>//gi;
$output =~ s/<.html>//gi;
$output =~ s/<li>//gi;
}
my @lines = split(/\n/, $output);
foreach my $val (@lines)
{
if ($val =~ /Filename:/i)
{
if ($val =~ /.mpg/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (1<<19) }; #turn on MPG icon
if ($val =~ /.mpeg/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (1<<19) }; #turn on MPG icon
if ($val =~ /.avi/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (2<<19) }; #turn on DIVX icon
if ($val =~ /.wmv/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (4<<19) }; #turn on WMV icon
if ($val =~ /.wma/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (3<<13) }; #turn on WMA icon
if ($val =~ /.mp3/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (1<<13) }; #turn on MP3 icon
if ($val =~ /.ogg/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (2<<13) }; #turn on OGG icon
if ($val =~ /.wav/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (4<<13) }; #turn on WAV icon
}
if ($val =~ /Type:/)
{
if ($val =~ /Video/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (2<<1) }; #turn on MOVIE icon
if ($val =~ /Video/i) { $icondata = $icondata | 1 }; # enable play animation
if ($val =~ /Audio/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (1<<1) }; # turn on MUSIC icon
if ($val =~ /Audio/i) { $icondata = $icondata | 1 }; # enable play animation
if ($val =~ /Picture/i) { $icondata = $icondata | (3<<1) }; # turn on PHOTO icon
}
if ($val =~ /Percentage:/)
{
$val =~ s/Percentage://i;
$progress = $val *32 / 100;
}
}
printf $sock "output %i\n",$icondata;
$sockres = readline $sock;
sleep 1;
printf $sock "output %i\n",(($progress <<6) | (1<<28)); # configure upper progress bar
$sockres = readline $sock;
sleep 1;
} while 1;
close $sock;
4.make it executeable
sudo chmod +x imon.pl
I let it in the root directory. If you want to copy it in another dir, you have to modify the start script
5. Make the start script
sudo nano /etc/init.d/imon
copy the code in this file
Code:#!/bin/bash
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: Imon Icons
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Description: Start, Stop or Restart IMon Icons
### END INIT INFO
# Shell functions sourced from /etc/rc.status:
# set -e
# Reset status of this service
# rc_reset
#
case "$1" in
start)
echo -n "Starting Imon Icons "
/root/imon.pl &
;;
stop)
echo -n "Shutting down Imon Icons "
/usr/bin/killall imon.pl
;;
restart)
echo -n "Restart Imon Icons "
$0 stop
sleep 20
$0 start
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
;;
esac
# rc_exit
exit 0
6. make it executable and set it to autostart
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/imon
7. Now you can test it with:
sudo /etc/init.d/imon start
and play now a media file in xbmc..... you´ll see the icons....
8. Now add it to autostart(this works on my machine good)
sudo update-rc.d imon defaults 65 65
Greetz Muggi
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and
thanks to Phantasm4489 for this Icon-Script...
