[mythtv-users] Need help to setup iMON remote and VFD on Fedora 14

Ben Kamen bkamen at benjammin.net
Fri Nov 12 22:58:53 UTC 2010


On 11/12/2010 4:53 PM, Jarod Wilson wrote:
> On Nov 12, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Andrew Junev wrote:
>
>> Hello Jarod,
>>
>> Friday, November 12, 2010, 7:15:42 PM, you wrote:
>>
>>>> P.S. Is it Ok that 'irw' doesn't show anything as well, even for the
>>>> codes known by the driver?
>>
>>> No, irw should report all the known keys, so things must not actually
>>> be entirely correct w/your config setup. Actually, now that I think
>>> about it... You have lircd pointed at the -event-mouse by-id symlink,
>>> but I think there's another symlink that should be in there, and its
>>> the one you actually want here.
>>
>>
>> Ah, bingo! I changed the device to /dev/input/by-id/usb-15c2_0038-event-if00
>> and now I can see with irw the buttons I press! Great!!!
>> Thanks a lot!!!
>
> Cool.
>
>> Can you advice me about VFD as well? I'd like to get it to work
>> with lcdproc. I have the following configuration for imon module:
>>
>> options imon display_type=1
>
>> From the driver:
>
>          /* SoundGraph iMON OEM LCD (IR&  LCD) */
>          { USB_DEVICE(0x15c2, 0x0038) },
>
> Pretty sure that's an LCD, not a VFD. Generally, overriding the
> display_type is a Bad Idea, unless you're 100% positive the
> driver is getting it wrong. But every single 0x0038 device I've
> seen to date is an LCD, not a VFD.
>
>
>> I can see the device /dev/lcd0 is created.
>> But I don't see anything on the VFD screen even when I run:
>>
>> echo Hello>  /dev/lcd0
>>
>> Do you have an idea on how to move forward with this one?
>
>
> That won't work for LCD devices, only the VFD devices. There's
> some perl hex-encodding magic you can use to achieve a similar
> effect, but I don't recall what it is offhand.

I have a VFD that I needed to force to type=1 to get it happy.

It's pretty old. (like 2005)

It's still chugging away!

  -Ben

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