[mythtv-users] VFD finetuning

[Andrew Lyon]

On 11/9/06, Peter Carlsson <maillist.peter at home.se> wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I have a SilverStone LC03V and would like to have the
> VFD display to show some more information. How do I
> configure it to display system information i.e. memory
> usage, temperature, CPU usage etcetera?
>
> I am from Sweden and when MythTV displays information
> about recordings etcetera it doesn't show swedish
> characters correctly. How could I change the character
> set to at least show 'a' and 'o' instead of swedish
> characters?
>
> I am running Debian (testing).
>
> Best regards,
> Peter Carlsson
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You will find that is not going to be easy, at least not if you have
the same problem that I ran into..  I have a silverstone vfd that fits
into a 5 1/4 drive bay, when it was used with LCDProc I found that
some characters were not displayed correctly, e.g. the blocks used to
display volume bars were displayed as symbols.

I got the manual for the vfd display used in the silverstone vfd unit
and quickly realised that it came with a different character set than
LCDProc was designed for, however the LCDProc software can also send
bitmapped characters, as the missing/incorrect characters were simple
bars (and partial bars) it was easy to create bitmaps for them and
patch the source code to use those instead of the built in characters.

But if you are talking about "real" letters and symbols it will be
harder, as you will have to draw them using 0's and 1's!

The patches that I made were lost a long time ago when LCDProc was
upgraded by portage and I've never bothered to recreate them, but it
wouldnt take me too long to do so, so if you'd like me to post the
details let me know.....

Andy