and please excuse me if this is too long :-)
I finally succeeded to intergrate my new display (actually a graphical VFD, but now emulates 21x8 character mode) to current CVS LCDproc (0.5dev) and of course, I did that for my freevo box. I have 2 problems with the freevo LCDproc plugin:
1.
When I configure pylcd to connect to this server, I only see a screen on the display that looks approx. like:
_____________________
|##### Freevo ########|
| 11:10:43 |
| |
| |
| |
| |
| |
|_____________________|
and the time is frozen, i.e it's not updated like for example when I run the lcdproc client which comes with the lcdproc package.
The same thing happens with the curses or the text driver when I run them in a ssh console on that machine (I only have TV-out there, and I'ts in another room, too), regardless if I configure them for 20x4 or 21x8 characters, wich brings me to the next problem, the screen layout:
2.
Once get this working, I will need a screen layout for 21x8 characters, how difficult is it to adapt one in the plugin source (I don't know python at all, just c++/c).
As I could see the output of the lcdproc plugin on a windows-version (running on my desktop machine) of LCDproc running with the "window" driver wich can be configured any size, the freevo plugin chooses the layout that best fits in the screen size, right now 20x4 (so problem 1. shouldn't be because of the layout size). I have room for 8 rows on my display, would it be possible to display the whole (or as many items as possible) main menu for example, or several folder listings and highlight the current selection like on the freevo OSD, or is the plugin not yet able to do this in it's current code, due to the layouts not "higher" than 4 rows until now? Remember, I don't know any python and have no idea if such things are already implemented in the current code and right now have no idea how to do it...
The test script that comes with pylcd doesn't seem to work either on my real display (CVS version of lcdproc), I can only see the server status screen where it says that 1 client connected, so this makes me think that pylcd doesn't really like LCDproc 0.5, could that be the problem?
Unfortunately, the LCDproc people advise to write new drivers onbly for the current CVS-version of LCDproc, because they changed lots of things between 0.4.x an 0.5.
Any help and pointers where to start looking for a fix greatly appreciated! Lucian
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