[mythtv-users] Serial VFD integration

[Robin Elvin]

On Saturday 01 October 2005 20:25, Ben Curtis wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I'm hunting everywhere for how to integrate MythTV and my VFD.  Does myth
> just see that LCDd is running automatically?  All the posts/documentation
> I've read never really go into how they talk to one another.
> 
> Also, I can't seem to get my particular VFD to function with LCDd. 
> Everything works perfect when hooked to COM1, I can do:
> 
> echo -ne "\nTest" > /dev/ttyS0
> 
> and it comes up and stays on screen.  (The \n just clears the screen as
> it's a 16x1 screen).  My attempts with LCDd thus far have been using the
> HD44780 driver with Port commented out in the conf and Device=/dev/ttyS0. 
> No errors are reported from LCDd or lcdproc, but the display never
> changes.
> 
> Since I can just echo to the port, do I even need LCDproc?  Any help would
> be appreciated.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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You have to turn on the settting in Myth for using the LCD display. Try that 
first and see what you get (I'm assuming your LCDd is configured correctly 
which it seems it is).

-- 
Rob