Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2014-02-07 Thread rpress
Gurney wrote: > Hi rpress, > > Sorry, I'm not fit with compiling. Could you describe how to build the > driver? > > I'm not sure whether it builds just a module or a full blown kernel. > > Thanks a lot! It can be built either way. To build as a module you need the exact kernel headers and co

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2014-02-05 Thread Gurney
Hi rpress, Sorry, I'm not fit with compiling. Could you describe how to build the driver? I'm not sure whether it builds just a module or a full blown kernel. Thanks a lot! Gurney's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2014-01-26 Thread rpress
The driver you need is on my github, you shouldn't need anything else. It should work with Raspberrry PI as it was designed for this in the first place. With the power sequence, I did not do anything special. But now that you mention it I see the SSD1322 datasheet mentions the sequence. The di

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2014-01-07 Thread Gurney
rpress wrote: > The FT232RL does not support MPSSE, so sorry that won't work. But the > good news is that with the Raspberry Pi you can hook it up parallel, or > SPI, directly with just wires and you do not need the FTDI adapter. > > I have not tested the PMOD-OLED2, but it should work just lik

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-12-09 Thread MarlonBrando
rpress wrote: > I received the Noritake display, unfortunately the grayscale one is > discontinued. It's too big for my case! I didn't pay close enough > attention, it's about 10mm too wide. It's big and beautiful, there is > something indeed special about a VFD display. The drivers are worki

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-12-08 Thread Gurney
rpress wrote: > The FT232RL does not support MPSSE, so sorry that won't work. But the > good news is that with the Raspberry Pi you can hook it up parallel, or > SPI, directly with just wires and you do not need the FTDI adapter. > > I have not tested the PMOD-OLED2, but it should work just lik

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-12-07 Thread rpress
Gurney wrote: > Hi board, > > I'm about to go ahead and buy this. My plan is to build an > XBMC/Squeezebox/Rsnapshot backup unit in my bedroom with a Raspberry Pi. > :) > > I've just one question, I can only find FT232RL in France, this model: > http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-12-05 Thread Gurney
Hi board, I'm about to go ahead and buy this. My plan is to build an XBMC/Squeezebox/Rsnapshot backup unit in my bedroom with a Raspberry Pi. :) I've just one question, I can only find FT232RL in France, this model: http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9115 Would it be

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-25 Thread rpress
Triode wrote: > rpres - interested in your views of how accurate the spectrum analyser > is - on the 1980x1080 skin it doesn't look too accurate to me - I think > the gain is too high (some bars saturate, but also not sure how well it > matches the music) - have you done any tuning in this area -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-25 Thread Triode
rpres - interested in your views of how accurate the spectrum analyser is - on the 1980x1080 skin it doesn't look too accurate to me - I think the gain is too high (some bars saturate, but also not sure how well it matches the music) - have you done any tuning in this area - I think you may have u

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-25 Thread Triode
rpress wrote: > Great! Jivelite needed one small fix of adding -lpthread to the LDFLAGS > but otherwise it is working just fine > Should be fixed now - for some reason not needed on ubuntu for me... Triode's Profile: ht

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-25 Thread rpress
Triode wrote: > I've added a vis branch to my squeezelite and jivelite repos which adds > visualizer support. Its based on your work, but with some changes to > the shared struct and recovery from one or other processes restarting. > Could you try it out? [Doesn't include your skin, but includ

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-24 Thread Triode
I've added a vis branch to my squeezelite and jivelite repos which adds visualizer support. Its based on your work, but with some changes to the shared struct and recovery from one or other processes restarting. Could you try it out? [Doesn't include your skin, but includes equivalence to other

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-23 Thread rpress
davidismynaim wrote: > how would this play on your display, if cool, I might find the time to > create all 25 positions, but dont want to do it if it does not look > right! Hey thanks! I'll see if I can try this out in the next few days. gorman wrote: > Considering one of the main disadvantag

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-19 Thread gorman
Or a nice LCD display 720x272, by LG:http://www.hy-line.de/fileadmin/hy-line/computer/csv/datasheets/LA060N01-SD01-B21_CAS_Final_120206_v1%200.pdf Problem is I can't find it anywhere on sale... gorman's Profile: http://for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-19 Thread gorman
Considering one of the main disadvantages of OLED is its performance under direct light... I'm not sure it's the best choice. How do you see it perform? I would love to have a huge VFD display, something similar to how Transporter put two together to have visualizations together with music info f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-13 Thread davidismynaim
how would this play on your display, if cool, I might find the time to create all 25 positions, but dont want to do it if it does not look right! 15149 rpress wrote: > > The VU meters are just multiple bitmaps with the needle drawn in > different spots. I played with the Touch bitmap a bit in

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-08 Thread rpress
Anyone who wants to use the OLED display can also buy it here: https://www.digilentinc.com/Products/Detail.cfm?NavPath=2,719,1084&Prod=PMOD-OLED2 It's the same screen on a different carrier board than the one I have. To run it as SPI a jumper wire must be installed but otherwise it looks like it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-08 Thread rpress
JJZolx wrote: > Damn. I think I'd design another case. I'm certainly tempted to go that route, but I already made three components (two amplifiers and a DAC/DSP) that are in the same size case. There is a smaller VFD from Noritake, maybe I will try to sell the large VFD. -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-07 Thread JJZolx
Damn. I think I'd design another case. JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-09-03 Thread rpress
I received the Noritake display, unfortunately the grayscale one is discontinued. It's too big for my case! I didn't pay close enough attention, it's about 10mm too wide. It's big and beautiful, there is something indeed special about a VFD display. The drivers are working and the display is r

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-18 Thread rpress
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Great work! > That seems like a big screen too. Which of those displays you tested has > your preference? Yes the size is good, it would look good in a 2U case; that's what I'm doing, one of the HiFi2000 Galaxy Maggiorato cases in 2U height, 1/2 width. I only tested with t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-17 Thread Pascal Hibon
rpress wrote: > I have a preliminary driver for the FTDI chip. It is working just fine, > about 60 fps, very smooth; CPU usage is low as well. You can see in the > photo that everything is over USB. > > https://github.com/presslab-us/ftdi_spigpio > > 15061 > > The adapter is a FT2232H one I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-15 Thread rpress
I have a preliminary driver for the FTDI chip. It is working just fine, about 60 fps, very smooth; CPU usage is low as well. You can see in the photo that everything is over USB. https://github.com/presslab-us/ftdi_spigpio 15061 The adapter is a FT2232H one I had laying around, but I think th

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-11 Thread rpress
Pascal Hibon wrote: > If I’m not mistaken, the VU meters on the Squeezebox 3 was also a > community effort and some people created nice VU meters for the Touch in > the past. So it is doable. > Can you post the images you already modified? I’m willing to take a look > at it but can’t promise that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-11 Thread Pascal Hibon
rpress wrote: > > The VU meters are just multiple bitmaps with the needle drawn in > different spots. I played with the Touch bitmap a bit in Gimp to get it > to fit on the display, but it could use more work, frankly. If anyone > wants to draw a new VU meter, 128 x 64 pixels, with the needle

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-10 Thread rpress
Triode wrote: > Hi - visualisations definitely look interesting. I'm not near a linux > machine right now, but interested in merging into squeezelite/jivelite > based on this once you have something and I've looked at in more > detail. > > For the squeezelite component do we really need to appl

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-10 Thread Pascal Hibon
rpress wrote: > Thanks gorman. :) > > I've updated my repos with the code necessary to get it all working. > It's not finished by any means but it's certainly workable for anyone > who wants to play with it. You can use the skin on a desktop PC just > fine, to get an idea. > > I also have im

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-10 Thread Triode
rpress wrote: > Thanks gorman. :) > > I've updated my repos with the code necessary to get it all working. > It's not finished by any means but it's certainly workable for anyone > who wants to play with it. You can use the skin on a desktop PC just > fine, to get an idea. > > I also have im

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-09 Thread rpress
Thanks gorman. :) I've updated my repos with the code necessary to get it all working. It's not finished by any means but it's certainly workable for anyone who wants to play with it. You can use the skin on a desktop PC just fine, to get an idea. I also have implemented the visualizations, b

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-09 Thread gorman
Rpress, you are a hero. Thanks so much for what you are doing. :) gorman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-08 Thread rpress
Pascal Hibon wrote: > Can you elaborate a bit more on the parts modification of the Wandboard > ? Sorry, I meant the parts on the circuit board that is attached to the OLED board. The "crosstalk" problem was in the image, where bright pixels in a row caused other pixels to be darker. I fixed t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
rpress wrote: > Thanks guys! Here is the display I am using now. I had to modify the > parts on the board a bit, it had some crosstalk problems; it looks > pretty good now, though. I don't know if this is the best solution for > everyone, due to the changes needed. Noritake has always had ver

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-08 Thread funkstar
I really like what you've done with the OLED display. To me it's like a VFD for the 21st century :) Have you got a link to that display? I'm just being nosey :) '[project log] funkstars digital lifestyle' (http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-lifestyle/179882-project-log-funkstars-digital-lifestyle.h

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-08 Thread Pascal Hibon
rpress wrote: > I do like the OLED, but VFD would be nice too! > > http://noritake-vfd.com/gu256x64f-3900.aspx > > This is nice and big (6.7" diagonal), I might get one of these to play > with too. The electrical interface is different than mine, but there is > a USB option. Or an adapter to

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-08 Thread rpress
Thanks guys! Here is the display I am using now. I had to modify the parts on the board a bit, it had some crosstalk problems; it looks pretty good now, though. I don't know if this is the best solution for everyone, due to the changes needed. Noritake has always had very good quality so maybe

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-05 Thread rpress
I do like the OLED, but VFD would be nice too! http://noritake-vfd.com/gu256x64f-3900.aspx This is nice and big (6.7" diagonal), I might get one of these to play with too. The electrical interface is different than mine, but there is a USB option. Or an adapter to SPI (like my OLED) is not so

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-03 Thread rpress
Well I have the OLED display working in Jivelite. You can see that the skin is way too big! :) 15036 So I've decided for now to make a new skin rather than try to use the old Boom interface. Hopefully the UI will work nicely with this aspect ratio. The font rendering looks pretty nice with 1

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-03 Thread JJZolx
Nice. What are the physical dimensions of the display area? JJZolx's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 __

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-08-03 Thread rpress
The viewing area is 136x34mm (5.35x1.34") or 5.5" diagonal. rpress's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=31544 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98960 ___

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-19 Thread rpress
Triode wrote: > There's no actual server support for greyscale rendering of the classic > interface. This should do everything a boom/classic will do except > scroll the text as I didn't add that to the server. Yeah, when I did the "empeg" I saw that it uses one 32 bit word for the 32 pixels ve

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-19 Thread Triode
rpress wrote: > Thanks Triode and Ralphy! > > With a few more minor changes I have RetroBrowser working on Jivelite. > I modified the resolution to that of the display I plan to use at > 256x64. The downside is the decreased resolution in Y (RetroBrowser > already doubles the pixels) and also

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-18 Thread rpress
Thanks Triode and Ralphy! With a few more minor changes I have RetroBrowser working on Jivelite. I modified the resolution to that of the display I plan to use at 256x64. The downside is the decreased resolution in Y (RetroBrowser already doubles the pixels) and also there is no support for gra

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-17 Thread rpress
Thanks for the replies! RetroBrowser looks really interesting and I'd like to play with it. But it doesn't work with Jivelite as it uses deprecated functions "addCategory" along with other problems I imagine. Has anyone got it working with more modern Squeezeplay/Jivelite? It seems the fundam

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-17 Thread Triode
rpress wrote: > Thanks for the replies! > > RetroBrowser looks really interesting and I'd like to play with it. But > it doesn't work with Jivelite as it uses deprecated functions > "addCategory" along with other problems I imagine. Has anyone got it > working with more modern Squeezeplay/Jive

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-17 Thread ralphy
rpress wrote: > Thanks for the replies! > > RetroBrowser looks really interesting and I'd like to play with it. But > it doesn't work with Jivelite as it uses deprecated functions > "addCategory" along with other problems I imagine. Has anyone got it > working with more modern Squeezeplay/Jive

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-13 Thread JimmyBondi
Nowadays with a quite powerful client like the wandboard I would prefer to let the UI code reside on the client side. Without knowing too much about jivelite's internals I can imagine that it should not be be too complicated to create a character based or even a graphics lcd compatible renderer f

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-13 Thread JohnSwenson
rpress wrote: > I'd like to do a Boom type user interface using the Wandboard and > Community Squeeze OS. > > The hardware will consist of a 256x64 OLED display along with an RF > remote control. > > The display interface with the SPI port will be easy enough; the remote > is USB. The software

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-13 Thread ralphy
Triode's 'RetroBrowser applet' (http://triodeplugins.googlecode.com/files/RetroBrowser-1.0.zip) might be worth looking at for ideas. It displays the contents of an SB3 player on the controller and allows you to navigate the menus. It runs on squeezeplay as well. ---

[SlimDevices: Unix] Boom style user interface for Community Squeeze OS

2013-06-13 Thread rpress
I'd like to do a Boom type user interface using the Wandboard and Community Squeeze OS. The hardware will consist of a 256x64 OLED display along with an RF remote control. The display interface with the SPI port will be easy enough; the remote is USB. The software framebuffer driver needs writi