LCDProc 0.5.4-dev

stephenw10 · Sep 10, 2013, 9:44 PM

It's detailed in the post I linked to above.

Two interesting developments have happened recently that may help here.
JimP's watchdog package. It may be able to restart the service correctly after boot and if it fails. Though I suspect it only monitors the daemon and not the client.
The rc startup patches may help lcdproc-dev start correctly at boot.

Steve

Topper727 · Oct 22, 2013, 5:59 AM

I have the CrystalFontz 735 Display which emulates the 635 and will go Graphic here in the very near future.

I am wondering why the LED's on the display don't light using LcdProc. What can I do?

stephenw10 · Oct 22, 2013, 10:14 AM

You mean the backlight or some other LEDs?

Steve

kilthro · Oct 22, 2013, 10:24 AM

@stephenw10:

You mean the backlight or some other LEDs?

Steve

The leds down the side of the front of the unit.

@Topper727:

I have the CrystalFontz 735 Display which emulates the 635 and will go Graphic here in the very near future.

I am wondering why the LED's on the display don't light using LcdProc. What can I do?

You can get them to work.
I am still using this process/edits to the files and mine work. Not sure if much is diff between the 635/735 besides different type of lcd..

You may be able to apply this to get them to work.

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,44034.msg302352.html#msg302352

Topper727 · Oct 29, 2013, 1:48 AM

There is 4 dual color LED's on the left side of the 735 that I have. In PFSENSE LCDPROC I see :

Enable Output LEDs
Enable the Output LEDs present on some LCD panels. This feature is currently supported by the CFontz633 driver only.
Each LED can be off or show two colors: RED (alarm) or GREEN (everything ok) and shows:
LED1: NICs status (green: ok, red: at least one nic down);
LED2: CARP status (green: master, red: backup, off: CARP not implemented);
LED3: CPU status (green < 50, red > 50%);
LED4: Gateway status (green: ok, red: at least one gateway not responding, off: no gateway configured).

The cFontz633 is no longer included in LCDProc builds, so I use the Crystalfontz packet. This works good, buttons work and display shows information. But the 4 LED's on the left side do not show any thing.

Topper727 · Oct 29, 2013, 2:31 AM

I found the fix.. In /usr/local/pkg/lcdproc_client.php

down near line 469 you see the following

Change the
if ($value && $lcdproc_config['driver'] == "CFontz633")
to
if ($value && $lcdproc_config['driver'] == "CFontzPacket")

that makes them work
I know this is just fooling it to think it is the 633 driver when your using the Packet one. I am not the developer or maintain this but could make all the changes needed to make it right and submit if need.

it does seem to not be perfect though. All lan /wan is up and red shows for that LED and all gateways up but no LED .. sometimes the gateway one lights up then the lan/wan one will go green.. so some bug in code maybe?

Topper727 · Oct 31, 2013, 9:53 PM

I got it going for most part. I can't get result from Gateway #4 LED just green it lights always. But others work. Fixed some typos in the lcdproc_client.php file. I submitted it to github and here is link

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/532

I did not change the code in major way or the what LED does what.. Just made it work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYdyLdrT_PI

stephenw10 · Nov 1, 2013, 3:39 PM

Nice. :)
You almost certainly shouldn't have a gateway on LAN, off topic though. Do you have another thread going to discuss that?

Steve

Topper727 · Nov 2, 2013, 7:50 PM

I do not put gateway on lan.. I only do on Wan.. I think the checking code in there is what is not right. I am use to tools to see variable values and debugging tools.. I don't have any for doing this kind of work so makes it harder to know the failure.

Off topic. will look for or create for the problem I have with Gateway issue

mikeisfly · Nov 6, 2013, 2:19 AM

Please forgive my ignorance but I would like to get a few lines added to this package. When ever I upgrade my system or reinstall which isn't all the time admittedly, but I have to manually add the port necessary to get my crystal fontz 635 to work. It's kind of a pain in the you know what and it would be cool if it was there natively. I would love to have the following lines added:

/usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.inc:


case "ttyU0":
	continue;
	break;

and


case "ttyU0":
     $realport = "/dev/ttyU0";
break;

/usr/local/pkg/lcdproc.xml:


 <option><value>ttyU0</value>
		<name>USB Com port 3 alternate (/dev/ttyU0)</name></option>

I'm thinking some kind of commit is necessary but not sure of the process. I have no knowledge of github or am I over thinking the process?

stephenw10 · Nov 6, 2013, 6:10 AM

That doesn't work with cuaU0 then? Odd.

Steve

mikeisfly · Nov 6, 2013, 10:33 AM

That doesn't work with cuaU0 then? Odd.

Steve

Nope. I just stopped the service and tried that port. But when I try to restart the service it won't restart. I remember you helped awhile ago to discover ttyU0 was the port that I needed to use. I'm not sure if my screen is special but it's not usb its serial but connects to a USB port. When I connected to Windows that's when I discovered that it had some kind of USB to Serial adapter built into it. The screen is just a CrystalFontz 635 that I bought directly from CrystalFontz. If I use the crystalfontz 633 driver I get a blank screen, I have to use the crystalfontz packet driver. It is my understanding that I can only get the LED on the left side of the screen to work if I use the crystalfontz 633 driver. Would be nice to have those working.

Just for my knowledge what is the difference between cuaU0 and ttyU0? I tried to do a little searching but I'm not getting any answers.

stephenw10 · Nov 6, 2013, 4:06 PM

As far as I know (and I'm a bit unsure on this) it's just a terminology difference. Older versions of FreeBSD used tty for serial ports, newer versions use cua but tty is kept for compatibility. In both cases the capital 'U' indicates a USB connected device.

Steve

Topper727 · Nov 6, 2013, 6:09 PM

Yes, CrystalFontz Packet driver is what you need to use. As far as those LED's on the left edge the code I put up here makes those work.

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/532

Mike, Couple messages back I explained some you might be interested in seeing those (end of page 32)

mikeisfly · Nov 6, 2013, 8:03 PM

Yes I saw those but I thought is said that you needed to use the crystalfontz 633 driver. I will take a look again. Is there anyway that my port can be added to the package? Thanks.

mikeisfly · Nov 6, 2013, 11:53 PM

Topper727 wrote:

Yes, CrystalFontz Packet driver is what you need to use. As far as those LED's on the left edge the code I put up here makes those work.

https://github.com/pfsense/pfsense-packages/pull/532

Mike, Couple messages back I explained some you might be interested in seeing those (end of page 32)

Thanks my LEDs are now working they are on. Hopefully I will have sometime this week or weekend to workone the WAN gateway issue. I am also going to sit down to figure out how I can get my port added to this package.

Thanks all for the help.

Topper727 · Nov 7, 2013, 6:52 AM

Glad to see you got it working. I hope to get my changes (fixes) put into the lcdproc package as well. I seen Michelle is one who started it. Maybe she is one going to put these changes in and submit to package system? I am not familiar with this process yet.

jasonlitka · Nov 21, 2013, 11:56 PM

I just got a pair of boxes which have LCDs in them that I'd love to get working. Can anyone tell me how I'm supposed to identify which driver I should be using?

The boxes are Lanner FW-8865. I sent an email over to them asking for more info on what LCD was installed and how it was attached, but I was hoping that with any luck someone here would be able to get me started.

http://www.lannerinc.com/products/x86-network-appliances/rackmount/fw-8865

stephenw10 · Nov 22, 2013, 2:40 AM

There was a report recently that another Lanner box worked with the sdeclcd driver. That has code in it to work with the XTM5 which is a lightly modified Lanner box. Easy test.

Steve

Edit: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,68481.msg375797.html#msg375797

jasonlitka · Nov 22, 2013, 4:10 PM

@stephenw10:

There was a report recently that another Lanner box worked with the sdeclcd driver. That has code in it to work with the XTM5 which is a lightly modified Lanner box. Easy test.

Steve

Edit: http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,68481.msg375797.html#msg375797

You. Are. Awesome. It was "USB COM Port 1" and "Watchguard Firebox with SDEC".

Any idea if there's a way to get traffic statistics for multiple interfaces? I'd love to be able to show total throughput on WAN1 + WAN2.

EDIT: Interestingly enough, Lanner just got back to me and said it's hooked up via Parallel. Not sure why the setting I picked worked unless the driver portion ignored it.