lcdproc-0.5.3 for Popcorn Hour 100 series (Soundgraph iMON VFD LCD etc.)

[MATPOC]

I have cross-compiled lcdproc-0.5.3 for Popcorn Hour 100 series - thanks for long Russian New Year holidays and strong Siberian cold (-30-40 C) :-) Now you can use Soundgraph iMON VFD or else VFD or LCD that supported by lcdproc & lirc

Quote:[from README]
LCDproc is a client/server suite including drivers for all kinds of nifty LCD devices. The server works with different display sizes and supports several serial devices: Matrix Orbital, Crystal Fontz, Bayrad, LB216, LCDM001 (kernelconcepts.de), Wirz-SLI and PIC-an-LCD; and some devices connected to the parallel port: HD44780, STV5730, T6963, SED1520 and SED1330. Various clients are available that display things like CPU load, system load, memory usage, uptime, and a lot more.

Files supposed to be placed in /usr/local. Config in my package made for Soundgraph iMON VFD

Maybe someone can package it for CSI?

And another question - how we can display "Now playing" and other useful information. emveepee in this post said that but don't explain how.

[MATPOC]

Thanks to Omertron - here is the package on mediaplayersite.com

[emveepee]

Sorry, the forum is much too busy for me to read anymore, and I didn't read your post. I can feed it from GBPVR because I wrote a GBPVR plugin to do this. There's not a lot to explain it is all standard LCDProc client server messaging, you could build this into a GBPVR plugin or llink or SwissCenter if you were so inclined.

I didn't bother creating this to be configurable, but if you get GBPVR installed http://forums.gbpvr.com/showthread.php?t=38896 and also install my Web Radio plugin http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Plugin/WebRadio I can compile a 2 line version of the plugin for you to play with. For those screen shoot the IP is hard-coded, and I use the 13666 port.

Martin

[MATPOC]

(01-09-2010 02:02 PM)emveepee Wrote:  Sorry, the forum is much too busy for me to read anymore, and I didn't read your post. I can feed it from GBPVR because I wrote a GBPVR plugin to do this. There's not a lot to explain it is all standard LCDProc client server messaging, you could build this into a GBPVR plugin or llink or SwissCenter if you were so inclined.
I didn't bother creating this to be configurable, but if you get GBPVR installed and also install my Web Radio plugin I can compile a 2 line version of the plugin for you to play with. For those screen shoot the IP is hard-coded, and I use the 13666 port.

So you did "Now playing" in llink & GBPVR. I'd like to look at your LCDproc plugin. And I think we are all will be happy if you'll make a configurable version of your LCDproc plugin - not so many people have skills to cross-compile apps

Did you know the legal way to get "Now playing" info from the mono? I found only temp file with all playlist and in ps output - the string of playlist filename. And moreover did you know how we can get info about current (and prev and next) "menu" string to make true screen-less interface to operate by remote and displaying this on attached VFD/LCD?

On another hand I think we have to ask alanh to provide interface to LCDproc in his port of mpd.

[emveepee]

It's not an LCDProc plugin. The Web Radio plugin just makes calls to LCDProc running on the NMT. There's no magic to LCDProc either since it sits outside mono. As long as the server knows the track that is playing it can send the text to LCDProc on the NMT.

Likewise alanh doesn't have to change mpd, the client controls this just like with GBPVR.

Martin

[MATPOC]

(01-09-2010 05:33 PM)emveepee Wrote:  It's not an LCDProc plugin. The Web Radio plugin just makes calls to LCDProc running on the NMT. There's no magic to LCDProc either since it sits outside mono. As long as the server knows the track that is playing it can send the text to LCDProc on the NMT.
with GBPVR.

There are 2 ways to display text on VFD/LCD:

1. echo "MY TEXT" > /dev/lcd0 on the NMT.
2. communicate with LCDd from any place

As I understand, your plugin on PC GBPVR send text to LCDd on the NMT.

But I said about the local way of getting "Now playing" info and send this text to VFD/LCD.

[MATPOC]

(01-09-2010 05:58 PM)MATPOC Wrote:  But I said about the local way of getting "Now playing" info and send this text to VFD/LCD.

The ideal solution will be program that getting "Now playing" info and send it to LCDd. In particular case it may be llink, mvpmcx2 or mpd plugin.

Or as simple case the program that read some file, parse it and send to LCDd in it's custom screen/widget format. Unfortunately I lost my programmers skills long ago and can't write this apps by myslef

[emveepee]

My prime requirement was to show Internet radio Shoutcast data on VFD will the monitor is off This takes more that parsing the filename mono doesn't have this functionality.

Martin

[MATPOC]

(01-09-2010 09:49 PM)emveepee Wrote:  My prime requirement was to show Internet radio Shoutcast data on VFD will the monitor is off. This takes more that parsing the filename mono doesn't have this functionality.

Yes! This is the my first (or second after flac+cue ) wish in my wishlist to Syabas developers. As I saw in ps out there are 3 mono processes when playing Internet radio streams. One for stream, another for displaying background and third for "Now playing" info?

There are two ways to display "Now playing" info of Internet radio streams:

1. "Easy" - stream specially crafted streams from PC program (GBPVR with your Web Radio plugin for example), and this PC program send "Now playing" info to LCDd on NMT.

2. Hard - write own program for NMT that receive Internet radio streams and parse it for id3 tags. Then send raw stream to mono and communicate with LCDd on NMT. Can it be made by mpd?

[emveepee]

The Shoutcast data is not a tag, it is embedded in the http stream, which mono just plays without parsing. That is why aac+ Internet radio don't work with mono directly.

Martin

[MATPOC]

(01-09-2010 10:30 PM)emveepee Wrote:  The Shoutcast data is not a tag, it is embedded in the http stream, which mono just plays without parsing. That is why aac+ Internet radio don't work with mono directly.

Yes, I know that Internet streams embeds info, I'd should place id3 tags in quotes.

Anyway what you can say about the second way I told about mpd?

[emveepee]

Sorry, I don't even know if the NMT mpd support http streaming from a Shoutcast server.

Martin

[garp99]

Could you guys please explain how this could be used for regular users?

What VFD/LCD are you attaching and via what physical connection to the NMT?

With this, could I get info from the NMT about sysinfo type information like HDD-temp,
disk space, etc and show it on my PC web browser or other application.
Do you have any real world example of this usage?

Can't this also be used to talk to or control the C-200 VFD screen?

[emveepee]

LCDProc doesn't give you the info that you are asking for, it is a display device, although I am sure you could create a web server app. that would do what you want. A native PCH monitoring app could also easily output this info to the LCD display.

My "real" app is here http://www.networkedmediatank.com/showth...pid239513. The monitor shows the WebRadio GBPVR plugin as displayed by the PCH and the Pico LCD shows the Shoutcast data coming via USB from my PCH. I wrote this to know what is playing when the monitor is off.

For this to work on a C 200 Syabas would need to provide a server or device driver to talk to that would cooperate with their display.

Martin