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      mdima
      last edited by

      hehe! yes, I was thinking about it and suggesting to use the decimal values… you got it before me!

      so, we understood how it works... the matter now is: what do we do with this 4 green-red-orange leds?

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        DaHak
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        great work, thanks!

        it is possible to add the driver for the ax89063 Display?
        It is used e.g. by NA-820 (http://axiomtek.com/products/ViewProduct.asp?view=429)

        it would be great for me :-)

        thanks!

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          fireman039
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          @mdima:

          hehe! yes, I was thinking about it and suggesting to use the decimal values… you got it before me!

          so, we understood how it works... the matter now is: what do we do with this 4 green-red-orange leds?

          Hello,

          With the led's we can report the statut of Wan and Lan, 1 led can de assigned to load of the system (ON  if load  = xx) and one for CPU= xx

          This led can be used to act as an "alarm" report status.

          Regards

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            Cino
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            great work mdima! Now I need to get bigger display. Using a 20x2 right now but its built into the case I'm using.

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              mdima
              last edited by

              @DaHak:

              great work, thanks!
              it is possible to add the driver for the ax89063 Display?
              It is used e.g. by NA-820 (http://axiomtek.com/products/ViewProduct.asp?view=429)
              it would be great for me :-)
              thanks!

              Hi, there are a couple of drivers around for that display, but it is not included in the LCDProc distribution. We could add it as an "external driver" like the nexcom driver.

              Can you compile it on FreeBSD (x86)? In this case I could just add the file you send me (ax89063.so) and add the option to use it in the code…

              Ciao,
              Michele

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                mdima
                last edited by

                @fireman039:

                With the led's we can report the statut of Wan and Lan, 1 led can de assigned to load of the system (ON  if load  = xx) and one for CPU= xx
                This led can be used to act as an "alarm" report status.
                Regards

                yes, I agree!
                but the number of NICs can really vary, belive me… I would use:

                • a led for nics status (if one nic is unplugged gets red, if it's plugged gets green)
                • a led for carp status (off=no carp, green=at least one ip in master, red=at least one ip in backup)
                • a led for cpu (green < 50%, orange >50 && <70, red >70%)
                • a led for what?
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                  DaHak
                  last edited by

                  @mdima:

                  Hi, there are a couple of drivers around for that display, but it is not included in the LCDProc distribution. We could add it as an "external driver" like the nexcom driver.

                  Can you compile it on FreeBSD (x86)? In this case I could just add the file you send me (ax89063.so) and add the option to use it in the code…

                  Ciao,
                  Michele

                  Unfortunately, I can not compile because I'ḿ to stupid to do this :-) and I have no experience in OpenBSD too :-/

                  thanks

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                    mdima
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                    @Cino:

                    great work mdima! Now I need to get bigger display. Using a 20x2 right now but its built into the case I'm using.

                    Thanks a lot! Hope to get more users and feedback in order to pass this work from "-dev" to the production package!

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                      mdima
                      last edited by

                      @DaHak:

                      Unfortunately, I can not compile because I'ḿ to stupid to do this :-) and I have no experience in OpenBSD too :-/
                      thanks

                      come on, then I was stupid too till the last month, because I never did it before… :D also, I don't have that vm anymore... and, just to demonstrate how few experience I have, it is FreeBSD, not OpenBSD! (hope I did not hurt anyone with that).

                      anyway, I hope someone that reads this message after the loud laugh, maybe can get a compiled version... if not I will recreate the vm and try do to it...

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                        fireman039
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                        @mdima:

                        @fireman039:

                        With the led's we can report the statut of Wan and Lan, 1 led can de assigned to load of the system (ON  if load  = xx) and one for CPU= xx
                        This led can be used to act as an "alarm" report status.
                        Regards

                        yes, I agree!
                        but the number of NICs can really vary, belive me… I would use:

                        • a led for nics status (if one nic is unplugged gets red, if it's plugged gets green)
                        • a led for carp status (off=no carp, green=at least one ip in master, red=at least one ip in backup)
                        • a led for cpu (green < 50%, orange >50 && <70, red >70%)
                        • a led for what?

                        -a led for DynDns status is possible ?

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                          marcelloc
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                          -a led for DynDns status is possible ?

                          A led for all services running ok isn't better?

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                            mdima
                            last edited by

                            @marcelloc:

                            -a led for DynDns status is possible ?

                            A led for all services running ok isn't better?

                            could be… as more "general" we stay, as better it is...

                            the funny thing is that I don't have any led on my panels, so it will be a mess to develop/debug... :D

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                              mdima
                              last edited by

                              Ah, one thing.

                              Yesterday I solved a problem that was dragging since a lot of time. Now when you change the program's settings or reinstall the package it is not necessary anymore to make sure the lcdproc service is stopped.
                              In this case the service is stopped and eventually restarted.

                              I invite all the people using lcdproc-dev to reinstall the package (I didn't create a new version, I will do it when there will be something more to update).

                              Thanks,
                              Michele

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                                fireman039
                                last edited by

                                @mdima:

                                @marcelloc:

                                -a led for DynDns status is possible ?

                                A led for all services running ok isn't better?

                                could be… as more "general" we stay, as better it is...

                                the funny thing is that I don't have any led on my panels, so it will be a mess to develop/debug... :D

                                Ok, you are right, the status of gateway could be be better ?
                                and I understand it's not easy develo with display with no led.

                                Another request  8)
                                It's possible to add an option to turn OFF the backlight ? (autotimer) and should be ON if one key of LCD is pressed ?

                                Regards

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                                  mdima
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                                  @fireman039:

                                  Ok, you are right, the status of gateway could be be better ?
                                  and I understand it's not easy develo with display with no led.

                                  yes… today is my last day before my "winter break", I will work on it on my return in January. Another funny thing is that the update to 2.0.1 was released today, also this will wait for my return! :D

                                  @fireman039:

                                  Another request  8)
                                  It's possible to add an option to turn OFF the backlight ? (autotimer) and should be ON if one key of LCD is pressed ?

                                  AFAIK it's not possible… it is possible to turn off the backlight, but not to set a "stand-by" mode...

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                                    fireman039
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                                    The Winter break is only in two days  Grrrrr:'  >:(

                                    I do the update 2.01 few minutes ago….

                                    For backlight, it's not possible to send "a command" when we press a key ? to turn backlight on :'(

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                                      mdima
                                      last edited by

                                      @fireman039:

                                      The Winter break is only in two days  Grrrrr:'  >:(
                                      I do the update 2.01 few minutes ago….
                                      For backlight, it's not possible to send "a command" when we press a key ?  :'(

                                      AFAIK unfortunately not… I was double-checking the documentation:
                                      http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/lcdproc-0-5-5-user.html#server-section

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                                        jpsb
                                        last edited by

                                        Cool update!

                                        Works fine with my U204FB-A1 - from  http://www.lcdmodkit.com

                                        Driver -USB2LCD
                                        Controller - HD44780

                                        Thanks for a great update

                                        JPSB

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                                          mdima
                                          last edited by

                                          @jpsb:

                                          Cool update!
                                          Works fine with my U204FB-A1 - from  http://www.lcdmodkit.com
                                          Driver -USB2LCD
                                          Controller - HD44780
                                          Thanks for a great update

                                          Hi JPSB, you are welcome, thank you for reporting us!

                                          Only one thing I don't understand: are you using the driver "HD44780" in the package setup page or you have installed the driver "usb2lcd" by yourself?

                                          Thanks,
                                          Michele

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                                            jpsb
                                            last edited by

                                            Hi

                                            I just use the HD44780 in the driver list, and by connecting the display, the system log shows "LCD2USB device found"
                                            The display is a little slow, and works best by refresh frequency on 5 or 10 sec.

                                            JPSB

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