[mythtv-users] Slick frontend ML02

[Dean Harding]

Peter Schachte wrote:
> Doug Young wrote:
>> On 10/12/07, Sebastian Buks <sebastianbuks at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I stumbled across this:
>>>
>>> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=796&num=1
>>> http://www.silverstonetek.com/products/p_contents.php?pno=ml02&area=usa
>>>
>>> However, I don't know if the VFD and IR works under linux.
>> Short answer is yes, I would be confident that these devices work
>> under Linux, and that myth supports them.
> I have a different Silverstone case with an iMon VFD and remote (looks like
> the one that comes with the ML02), and had no problem getting them working
> under Linux, but I've found that the remote itself is not very robust.  I've
> had it almost 2 years

There are two basic "classes" of iMON device (and several 
"sub-classes"), a VFD (released several years ago) and an LCD (released 
relatively recently). The ML02 comes with the newer LCD.

I've written some preliminary drivers for the LCD, which is available 
from my website (http://codeka.com/blogs/?cat=30 and some forums 
http://codeka.com/forums)

The drivers are only in the form of patches for LIRC (for the 
kernel-mode component) and LCDproc at the moment (until I get them 
stable, and feature-rich enough to integrate into the CVS of the 
respective projects) but they work pretty well...

The biggest thing missing at the moment is support for the icons around 
the outside of the LCD (it's got a bunch of icons for things like "tv", 
"dvd", "5.1ch" "stereo" etc, as well as a cool spinning-CD icon). I'm in 
the process of writing some patches for MythTV to support those (from 
what I can see, mythlcdserver does not, by default, get enough 
information to know whether you're watching TV vs. watching a DVD, vs. 
listening to music, etc, which makes things a bit tricky for me!)

Dean.