Thanks for all the info, I tested the lcdd with curses and it was great. Made my lcd screen today. Well backlight is not working yet, but<br>gonne buy some parts tomorrow. I have nice 20x2 display.<br><br>One thing.. Is there any way to make the clock to show up in the first row and not the second ?... really a minor thing, but I would prefer the
<br>upper row .<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/18/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Robin Gilks</b> <<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">g8ecj@gilks.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> Where could I moer information about mythlcd and what it shows ?<br>> Does it show clock when you watch TV or dvd ? Or can you configure it<br>> easily<br>> ?<br>><br>> On 1/2/06, Robin Gilks <<a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">
g8ecj@gilks.org</a>> wrote:<br>>><br>>><br>>> > Hello List,<br>>> ><br>>> > Is there a way to use mythlcd with the stable 0.18.1 code ?<br>>> ><br>>> > I don't want to run the CVS version if possible
<br>>> ><br>>><br>>> Any reason you particularly want the seperate task driving the LCD?<br>>> 0.18.1<br>>> will already talk to an LCD device through LCDproc - its just that the<br>>> SVN
<br>>> code has factored out a lot of the LCD stuff to make it easier to<br>>> support<br>>> and to add new features (like better operation with MythMusic).<br>>><br>>> Tick the check box on the last 'appearance' setup screen to enable the
<br>>> LCD<br>>> stuff and select the items you want displaying...<br>>><br><br>The easiest way to see what it does is to try it - fortunately you don't<br>need an LCD for testing!!<br><br>Install lcdproc and set up the ncurses driver. Set the size to what you
<br>would expect to use on a real LCD (mine is 2 lines of 20 for example) and<br>run up LCDd on a seperate virtual screen before you start up mythfrontend.<br>In Mythfrontend, go into setup/appearance and select the things you want
<br>to be displayed. I think you have to restart the frontend to it to work...<br><br>You'll see displayed (including all the scrolling etc) everything you can<br>expect to see on a real LCD.<br><br>Very handy for debugging this method is, as I found when the display I
<br>bought wouldn't run directly off the 3.3volt printer port on an Epia<br>SP13000 (even with pullup resistors) such that I had to put in voltage<br>shifting buffers. When I was at last convinced that the software DID work
<br>I debugged the hardware and sorted it!!<br><br>--<br>Robin Gilks zl3rob/g8ecj<br>Internet: <a href="mailto:g8ecj@gilks.org">g8ecj@gilks.org</a> <a href="http://www.gilks.org">http://www.gilks.org</a><br><br><br><br>
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