EZIO Driver for LCDproc

Lourensb

Hi Guys

I registered here, to see if I can get some help.

I am a very basic user, with limited Skills.

I have a CAR 3000 Portwell unit, that I installed pfSense on, the latest / Current Version.

I followed, and tried about all the Steps, and for some time, all my Display said, was pfSense Rules !

I then Powered the Device down, and not it's back to **

Can you please just give me a complete guide, as to what is needed, to get the Display to work please.

I am willing to test for you also.

System pfSense
Netgate Device ID: 92f16f5ccf418fc9167a

BIOS Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
Version: 080015
Release Date: Mon Dec 21 2009

Version 2.4.2-RELEASE (amd64)
built on Mon Nov 20 08:12:56 CST 2017
FreeBSD 11.1-RELEASE-p4

The system is on the latest version.
Version information updated at Sat Nov 25 13:29:23 -02 2017

Thank You for your Help

stephenw10

This appears to be in the FreeBSD 11 stable package now. Wonder if we can get it pulled into our repo….

Steve

andrew867

@fmertz:

OK, I rebuilt this driver with fewer dependencies:

$ ldd server/drivers/hd44780.so
server/drivers/hd44780.so:
        libkvm.so.6 => /lib/libkvm.so.6 (0x28205000)
        libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x2806f000)

File:

$ file server/drivers/hd44780.so
server/drivers/hd44780.so: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, not stripped

Let me know…

I've got an old IBM security appliance that will only run x86 and I had the same issue with libftdi1 not existing. The recompiled version works perfect, thanks!

stephenw10

The EZIO driver is now in the lcdproc package for 2.4.4 snapshots but not yet exposed by the GUI. Still easier to test though.

Steve

x2rl

would this work with pihole? my smoothwall box runs debian with pi-hole its the very same screen.

stephenw10

The driver is in lcdproc upstream so if you install lcdptoc it should be available.

Steve

x2rl

@stephenw10 ive put pfsense back on the box any ideas what settings is needed

Com port
Set the com port LCDproc should use.
Display size
Set the display size lcdproc should use.
Driver
Select the LCD driver LCDproc should use. Some drivers will show additional settings.
Connection type
Select the HD44780 connection type
Port speed
Set the port speed.
Caution: not all the driver or panels support all the speeds, leave "default" if unsure.

stephenw10

The driver is not in the GUI yet so you can't set lcdd.conf using the package menu. You still need to manually edit it and start it as shown earlier in this thread. But you no longer need to install the driver.

Steve

Smoothrunnings

Does anyone know if this comes built into LCDProc /w pfSense 2.4.4 ??

Thanks

stephenw10

The driver is now included in lcdproc but the pfSense gui parts are not there yet. So no need to copy the module across but you still need to start it manually.

Steve

Smoothrunnings

@stephenw10 not sure how to apply it.. I am a windows guy not a *nix guy but can follow instructions easily.

Thanks

stephenw10

Install the lcdproc and shellcmd packages.

Do NOT enable anything in the lcdproc package in the webgui.

Create file /root/LCDd.conf

[server]
DriverPath=/usr/local/lib/lcdproc/
Driver=hd44780
Bind=127.0.0.1
Port=13666
ReportLevel=3
ReportToSyslog=yes
User=nobody
Foreground=no
ServerScreen=no
GoodBye="Thanks for using"
GoodBye="    pfSense     "
WaitTime=5
ToggleRotateKey=Enter
PrevScreenKey=Left
NextScreenKey=Right
ScrollUpKey=Up
ScrollDownKey=Down
[menu]
MenuKey=Escape
EnterKey=Enter
UpKey=Up
DownKey=Down
[hd44780]
driverpath=/usr/local/lib/lcdproc/
ConnectionType=ezio
Device=/dev/cuau1
Keypad=yes
Size=16x2
KeyMatrix_4_1=Enter
KeyMatrix_4_2=Up
KeyMatrix_4_3=Down
KeyMatrix_4_4=Escape

Add shellcmds to start the lcdproc daemon and client:

Reboot.

Steve

Smoothrunnings

@stephenw10 and how do i get it to display server uptime?

stephenw10

The U switch for the client is uptime I think. Been a while since I looked into that. If you just want uptime just remove C and T.

Steve

ibysmalls

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Smoothrunnings

Has LCDproc the GUI been updated yet to support the EZIO?

If not does anyone know when it might be?

Thanks

stephenw10

Not yet. I did have a stab at it a while back but there were a few complications. It should be pretty easy to add though.

Steve

Smoothrunnings

@stephenw10 Well I am a Windows guy. So someone would have tell me like a 2 year old how to do this other way. :)

Smoothrunnings

@stephenw10 Is yet available on the GUI for LCDproc?

Thanks,

stephenw10

Sorry, not yet. I'll try to dig that code out again.

Steve