EZIO Driver for LCDproc

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,

stephenw10

I mean there are reasons you might want to do that, obviously not recommended though.

But this was just commenting that the package had not been built for 2.5 yet. I assume the patch was developed and tested on 2.5 first in this instance.

Steve

kiokoman

indeed @Smoothrunnings, all the patch and dev must be done on the dev version of pfsense aka 2.5.0, they then decide if and when to port it to the other version, i can't submit a patch directly to 2.4.5. that's why i was saying that, the patch was intended for 2.5.0 not for 2.4.5 but they decided to port and buld it for 2.4.5 before 2.5.0.

stephenw10

It's in the 2.5 dev source, the package builders just haven't run yet.

kiokoman

yes i understand, i was just explaining to him why i brought up version 2.5 in this discussion

pulsecity

Hi all,

I tried the updated package out I'm running 2.4.5 on a Smoothwall S4, however it seems unable to write the config file, as it never appears. I created the config file /usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf manually and was still unable to start the service. I then modified /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc, line define('LCDPROC_RCFILE', '/usr/local/etc/rc.d/lcdproc.sh'); as the filesystem showed the rc file without .sh

The service then started however clearly the client is not communicating as I just have LCDPROC servrer Cli: 0 on the screen.

That's as far as I have got so far. I did previously have this working using the shellcmd method.
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