hy is there a way to use an LCD or VFD (2x16 or 4x40 chars) in NPVR

[tto]

Is there a way to use an LCD or VFD (2x16 or 4x40 chars) in NPVR

I want to see the actions made by NPVR whitout to start my TV.

So it would be fine to see the recording that was ongoing, or see how many tuners are used....


Thanks and Regards tto

[mvallevand]

Is there a way to use an LCD or VFD (2x16 or 4x40 chars) in NPVR

I want to see the actions made by NPVR whitout to start my TV.

So it would be fine to see the recording that was ongoing, or see how many tuners are used....


Thanks and Regards tto

Does this from NEWA help http://127.0.0.1:8866/public/services/InfoXML.aspx help? If your need more info maybe it could be expanded upon by UJB

Martin

[stustunz]

Have a look at LCD smartie, it may not be exactly what you want

[mvallevand]

Does this from NEWA help http://127.0.0.1:8866/public/services/InfoXML.aspx help? If your need more info maybe it could be expanded upon by UJB

Martin

Sorry for my earlier post it got truncated, I somehow skipped my first line telling you to look for iMONVFD plugin which I believe works with NextPVR. I think I compiled something for pbs. I mentioned NEWA if you wanted to expand on it


Martin

[liteswap]

Good luck if you get it working. I've had a number of goes at this over the years and it's safe to say that it's complicated: nothing works as you expect, or even as whatever documentation exists suggests it should. I gave up in the end - more hassle than the outcome was worth. But if you get it working, be sure to let us know!

[W3bbo]

I used to use LCDSmartie to populate a VFD on my old Antec Fusion case to display what was currently being recorded by NPVR which worked quite well. This was achieved using the parallelprocessing, postprocessing and postcancel batch files to update a text file that was picked up by LCDSmartie.

Not sure if I still have the files as I lost the VFD when I moved to an Intel NUC as a server but will have a look this evening and post if I can find them.

[W3bbo]

Unfortunately I no longer have a copy of the scripts as I have completely rebuilt the server since I changed case but from memory the process was something like as shown in the code snippets below. Note that I've re-created these from memory so some debugging and customising for a specific VFD would be required.

Very, Very crude and there are much better ways of doing it - but it did work!

parallelprocessing.bat

Code:

@echo off
set show=%5
set show=%show:"=%
echo "Temp" >"c:\scripts\rec\%show%.`"
call c:\scripts\vfd.bat

postprocessing.bat

Code:

@echo off
set show=%5
set show=%show:"=%
if exist "c:\scripts\rec\%show%.`" del "c:\scripts\rec\%show%.`"
call c:\scripts\vfd.bat

postcancel.bat

Code:

@echo off
set show=%5
set show=%show:"=%
if exist "c:\scripts\rec\%show%.`" del "c:\scripts\rec\%show%.`"
call c:\scripts\vfd.bat

VFD.bat

Code:

@echo off
if exist c:\scripts\list.tmp del c:\scripts\list.tmp
if exist c:\scripts\rec\*.* dir /b c:\scripts\rec\*.* >c:\scripts\list.tmp
set VFD=Recording:
if not exist c:\scripts\list.tmp goto norec
for /f "delims=`" %%i in (c:\scripts\list.tmp) do call :process "%%i"
if "%VFD%"=="Recording: " goto norec
goto updatevfd

:norec
set VFD=Idle
goto updatevfd

:updatevfd
:: Insert Code Here to Update specifc VFD using text in %VFD%
echo %VFD%
goto end

:process
set prog=%1
set prog=%prog:"=%
set VFD=%VFD%  %prog%
goto end

:end

The only other bits I can think to add is a nightly job to clear out the "rec" folder to prevent orphaned entries from a crash persisting and also a filter to remove any potential illegal characters in the show title that could cause issues as a file name.

[jdauthre]

I am also wanting to use a LCD diplay via LCD Smartie, it seems I need a imonvfd utility/plugin, however whilst there are threads about it, none seem to have it for download, the most recent being:
http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...ease/page2 in 2011 which says the download is at the bottom of the page but it isn't, and a very old GBPVR one:
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/IMONVFD 2007 which has a download link but can't be used unless you log in to GBPVR but there is now way to register on that forum now, and the NEXTPVR login doesn't work on that.
the other plugin that crops up is externaldisplay, but I cant find a download link for that either! (or am I missing something?)
Hope someone can help!