Interactive & useful LCD displays
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Afaik nobody is working on this feature but this would make a really nice package. You might want to have a look at http://lcdproc.org/ as it seems to offer a lot of what you need already.
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Unfortunately neither LCDproc or LCD4Linux work well with the CrystalFontz display, both teams are amazingly slow at updating too. Thankfully the forums are more productive at CrystalFontz, check out this thread:
http://www.crystalfontz.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=3329
That is the only version of any code that is remotely stable and works well. That's my post at the bottom, I updated the code a bit, I have two displays myself. The code needs to be updated to use an event manager in order to handle inputs correctly, the glib toolkit is perfect for this job. Unfortunately my displays are in NY and I am in HK so I'm working on something else instead.
It appears too tedious to fix LCDproc and LCD4Linux as there is nothing inherently wrong in their code :(
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Thanks.
I'll take a look at it when I get the chance.
I've got to finish some .NET development work first and then I'm going on a cruise+conference to the carribean next month for a week. Then I also have clients that need analyst work done as well as networking stuff. Plus, I still have office duties to attend to such as the scolding of my employees and the spending of money…. etc, etc, ;o).
It should not take long at all to write up the package once I get started on it though.
But keep posting stuff I should look at!!
Oren
P.S. I got this http://www.crystalfontz.com/products/635/index.html not the 633, was a typo on my part.
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Jusr seen this post here, we are working on LCD /w IO pannel (Buttons)…
At this stage the hardware proto is ready, but still can be modified for final relese. Original Idea was to use I2C port to that wecan use it for wrap. Sure we can add RS232 and USB support for regular PCs that dont have SMBbuses. (Exept if some one wants that you gotta invest adding ports, i dont have buget for this at the moment ~$800)Also we kinda having problem writing a driver for BSD so we can have comunicate with the thingy via I2C, I know lmsensors have the code but I dont have any good BSD Engeneer that will utilize it (myself is useless on that advanced level) Never the less hardwarevise my man can do anything.
Finally, im not touching this project till i finish my Online / Offline Notifier
PS: We are in NYC too :-P
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I'm assuming that you are talking about building the actual LCDs rather than software. I'm planning to create the pfsense package this month. It will be hardware independent. All you will have to do is create a driver for your lcd screen and then an interface that implements the calls required by the package.
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yea we do the hardware, and was thinking to do the software too. But if you gonna do the soft part and if you can add suport for I2C port w/ automatic hardware detection I would be so happy :-)
Also i can lay out alghorithm for user buildable menues (oh well that if you would have buttons on ur lcd.. thats actualy one of the reason why we doing our own hardware)
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did u have any chance to build something?
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Any progress on this? Would love to connect an lcd to my pfSense box.
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yes im working on LCDs as yo ming see thta in previous posts:-P
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Didn't really think about doing the LCD with pfSense but it would help. I am working with another guy making a system to work with something called Trixbox (VoIP system using Linux and Asterisk). Like the other guy we didn't like the LCDproc or LCD4Linux, so we started work on our own. We are still developing it. It uses PHP CGI to control the CF 635. We are developing with and without the scab. Maybe we can add support for pfSense or a module for it. If anyone is interested, please visit http://www.lcdphp.org/lcdphpforum/ and if you want to help let me know. We hope to be releasing a version soon.
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I have a Matrix Orbital screen for some one if they will complete a package for it.
http://www.matrixorbital.com/product_info.php?pName=lk20424usbwb&cName=lcd-character-lcds