EZIO Driver for LCDproc

[kiokoman]

i was reading the old posts, someone needed to press esc multiple times to make it work

[aprice512]

@kiokoman

Pressing and holding ESC or the others appears to pause the current display. So they do something?

[kiokoman]

idk, i don't have that display to try, that's why i'm asking here if it work
don't press & hold, press esc multiple times until it show the menu
maybe try to set speed to 2400 or 9600

[fmertz]

From memory, I coded this as a "matrix" of buttons. Check the very first post, it shows keys KeyMatrix_4_* instead KeyDirect*

Best of luck, keep us posted.

[kiokoman]

[stephenw10]

I was never able to make the buttons work on the Smoothwall S4 I have. But they did work fine on another device I have. I assumed maybe Smoothwall changed the firmware in someway (or my box is just broken).
Let me test this.....

[kiokoman]

@aprice512 make this change then go to lcdproc gui and save
/usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc
https://github.com/pfsense/FreeBSD-ports/pull/833/commits/02acad93446e912463e415accf27be9ff2ccee81

[stephenw10]

Yup, with those 2 changes it looks good:

Apr 8 19:23:07 	LCDd 		LCDd version 0.5.9 starting
Apr 8 19:23:07 	LCDd 		Using Configuration File: /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf
Apr 8 19:23:07 	LCDd 		Listening for queries on 127.0.0.1:13666
Apr 8 19:23:10 	php 		lcdproc: Start client procedure. Error counter: (0)
Apr 8 19:23:11 	LCDd 		Connect from host 127.0.0.1:46269 on socket 6 

Generated config file:

[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
Port=0x378
Speed=0
Contrast=850
Brightness=800
OffBrightness=0
OutputPort=no
Charmap=hd44780_default
DelayBus=true
Size=16x2
Backlight=no
Keypad=yes
KeyMatrix_4_1=Enter
KeyMatrix_4_2=Up
KeyMatrix_4_3=Down
KeyMatrix_4_4=Escape

That works great! The new lcdexec stuff is cool.

However there is some stuff that doesn't need to be in there: Port=0x378 That's the parallel port, not used here.
I don't think the contrast/brightness is supported?
Fixed screensize?

Steve

[stephenw10]

....and the buttons on the S4 work fine too if I enter the correct conf lines.

[aprice512]

@kiokoman

Perfect seems to be working now, Port speed in the GUI doesn't seem to make a difference 9600 and 2400 both work.

@stephenw10 What is the lcdexec stuff?

Thanks,

Alexs

[kiokoman]

nice, now it's time to clean up the stuff

[ibysmalls]

Greate Work guys.

I'll setup my Smoothwall S4 now - I need to ship it to a customer anyway with pfsense on it. I think the port speed doesn't really apply from the gui I have found and never really found an instance where I have had to change it away from 9600.

[stephenw10]

@aprice512 said in EZIO Driver for LCDproc:

@stephenw10 What is the lcdexec stuff?

This patch added some default lcdexec commands. You have to enable it in the package setup: pfSense control menu

Once you do you get an extra menu at the LCD, press ESC to see the Options> line then hit DOWN and you'll see pfSense> where you can choose to reboot or shutdown. From the LCD!

[stephenw10]

@kiokoman I don't believe we need anything more set that what is shown in @fmertz's first post here.

It looks like the baud rate is hardcoded at 2400.

Steve

[kiokoman]

ok,done, i have cleaned more stuff

[stephenw10]

This is merged and looks good. It's in lcdproc package version: 0.10.6_10

Steve

[MXNPD]

Since my EZIO-100 is Serial based and I don't have a serial connection on my motherboard, I have a USB to Serial adapter, but I am unsure of how I would use this here, I plugged everything in, yet nothing on the screen, but I'm not sure if it has to do with setting the COM port to something specific.

[kiokoman]

@MXNPD try all available ports

anyway @stephenw10
it''s not available for my 2.5.0. only for 2.4.5
2.5.0 is still on LCDproc sysutils 0.10.8_4 for me

[stephenw10]

Same here. The 2.5 package builders may not be running right now. Other priorities with 2.4.5 issues.

@MXNPD Check /dev for new devices when you attach it. Check the system log or dmesg for errors if you don't see a new device. I would expect it to be on /dev/cuaU0 though. Unless you have other USB com ports.

Steve

[Smoothrunnings]

@kiokoman said in EZIO Driver for LCDproc:

@MXNPD try all available ports

anyway @stephenw10
it''s not available for my 2.5.0. only for 2.4.5
2.5.0 is still on LCDproc sysutils 0.10.8_4 for me

2.5.0 is a dev firewall, why would you run something that is dev in protection (aka beta)??

Thanks,