[mythtv] Re:LCD update

Steven J. Finnegan sjf at controlsoftcorp.com
Thu Jun 26 09:40:07 EDT 2003


Thor:

If you do work on updating the LCD stuff, be aware of the following...

(You are probably aware of some of this, but just in case)

The default when a screen is defined is to have the backlight state "off". 
In order for the screen to be seen, you must issue the following for each 
screen...

	        sendToServer("screen_set <screen_name> backlight on");

Also, the Matrix Orbital displays (and maybe others?) have up to six 
"general purpose outputs".-- basically outputs capable of driving a LED. I 
would be interested in using these as "record lights", one for each capture 
card. So if card #1 is recording, turn on light 1, for card #2, turn on 
light 2, etc.

The command to control the outputs is...

	sendToServer("output <value>");

Where "value" is
	"on" - turns on all outputs
	"off" - turns off all outputs
	mask - a value representing the binary mask of "on" values ( "3" means LED 
1 & 2 on, etc.)

Hope this is helpful, and thanks for all your hard work.

sjf


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