[mythtv-users] D.Vine series 5's VFD

[Dan Conti]

If you really want to work on such a project, and no spec sheet is
available from ahanix, you can go here:
http://www.linux-usb.org/tools.html

and get snoopy pro, which will let you snoop usb traffic. You can then
issue a few commands via girder and reverse engineer the protocol.

Once you have the protocol figured out, there is a usb_skel driver in the
linux kernel that you can use which basically implements all the API for a
usb device; you just need to populate read, write, and ioctl operations. I
dont know how LCD devices are used typically under linux, but that will
probably guide how you implement those few routines.

For something like this, if you already have a windows box and know a
little bit about kernel programming, you could probably bust it out in a
day or two.

-Dan

On Fri, 12 Dec 2003, Paul Woodward wrote:

> I have one, but I have no idea how to drive it. It's USB and
> proprietary. Under windows it can be driven by girder, but I don't know
> anything further than that. If anyone has any information I'm keen to
> work on it. I have a fair amount of experience with embedded systems and
> driving LCDs so that might be handy.
>
> Ahanix support are fairly friendly so it might be worth giving them a
> try.
>
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of J. Donavan Stanley
> Sent: 12 December 2003 21:17
> To: Discussion about mythtv
> Subject: [mythtv-users] D.Vine series 5's VFD
>
> Does anyone have a D.Vine series 5 with it's VFD / IR module?  I'm
> trying to find out if there's any Linux support for it but I've not been
>
> able to turn up any good info.
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