Firebox LCD Driver for LCDProc

maksimred · Aug 15, 2017, 4:53 PM

Thank you, vizi0n. That worked on my XTM515 box (running 2.3.4 amd64)! Now the backlight stays on! I am happy and frankly kinda giddy. I appreciate your help.

Cheers

Hi, How did you manage to get pfsense loaded on your XTM 515? I have a XTM 535 and want to load pfsense, but no write up is available. From what I understand 515 and 535 have the same internals, only software locked by watchguard.

stephenw10 · Aug 15, 2017, 6:12 PM

Replied in the XTM 5 thread.

Please don't double post. This thread is specifically for questions about the LCD driver. And it's included upstream in LCDproc now anyway.

Steve

networkBob · Oct 26, 2017, 10:10 PM

@vizi0n:

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

Oh dang the backlight turns off now after pfSense 2.4.1 update. Any ideas? Could this be a file signing issue?

Cheers

vizi0n · Oct 26, 2017, 10:13 PM

@networkBob:

@vizi0n:

I have updated my previous post with both drivers as separate attachments

32 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.32bit.zip
64 bit version : http://www.vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.64bit.zip

Please confirm if the 64 bit works as I have no way to test it. Also make sure that you run "chmod +x sdeclcd.so" to make it executable

Oh dang the backlight turns off now after pfSense 2.4.1 update. Any ideas? Could this be a file signing issue?

Cheers

Even after reuploading the file?

32-bit support has been deprecated and removed – There are no images available for 32-bit (x86/i386) Intel architecture systems

Awww its the end for the updates on my x750e :(

networkBob · Oct 26, 2017, 10:31 PM

Yes, I tried that. I also tried:
1. deleting the sdeclcd.so file and replacing with fresh downloaded copy
2. uninstalling LCDProc package and reinstalling
3. rebooting

Maybe I missed something, or maybe 2.4.1 added a file signing feature for security? I'll keep trying…

vizi0n · Oct 26, 2017, 10:37 PM

Aaah 2.4 is using FreeBSD 11, mine were compiled on 10.3

I will create new ones

vizi0n · Oct 27, 2017, 12:14 AM

Can you try this one ?

http://vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip

networkBob · Oct 26, 2017, 11:31 PM

Thank you so much, Vizi0n. I can confirm that your new file works on pfSense 2.4.1. This new modified LCDproc sdecled.so file keeps the LCD backlight powered on forever. These are the steps I used:

1) stop the LCDproc service
2) open console shell
3) mv /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/sdeclcd.so.bak
4) fetch http://vizi0n.com/watchguard/sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip
5) unzip sdeclcd.so.freebsd11.zip
6) cp sdeclcd.so /usr/local/lib/lcdproc
7) chmod +x sdeclcd.so

Cheers

vizi0n · Oct 27, 2017, 12:15 AM

@networkBob:

Thank you so much, Vizi0n. I can confirm that your new file works on pfSense 2.4.1. This new modified LCDproc sdecled.so file keeps the LCD backlight powered on forever.

You're welcome!

I have updated my previous post with the download links and attachments

MirrodinX · Apr 8, 2018, 9:05 PM

Hi,

ich have a little Problem.
I'm not able to install LCD Proc.
Any time i tryed to install it on the WebGUI there are some fails:

>>> Installing pfSense-pkg-LCDproc... 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	pfSense-pkg-LCDproc: 0.10.5 [pfSense]
	lcdproc: 0.5.7_2 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be installed: 2

The process will require 1 MiB more space.
[1/2] Installing lcdproc-0.5.7_2...
[1/2] Extracting lcdproc-0.5.7_2: .
pkg-static: Fail to create temporary file: /usr/local/lib/lcdproc/.CFontz.so.70EQSoDb3VPJ:Not a directory
[1/2] Extracting lcdproc-0.5.7_2... done
Failed

My System is a XTM 510
with 2.4.3-RELEASE (amd64)

Anybody able to help me?

Thanks in advance

stephenw10 · Apr 8, 2018, 11:34 PM

Hmm, not seeing that here.

>>> Installing pfSense-pkg-LCDproc... 
Updating pfSense-core repository catalogue...
pfSense-core repository is up to date.
Updating pfSense repository catalogue...
pfSense repository is up to date.
All repositories are up to date.
The following 2 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	pfSense-pkg-LCDproc: 0.10.5 [pfSense]
	lcdproc: 0.5.7_2 [pfSense]

Number of packages to be installed: 2

The process will require 1 MiB more space.
253 KiB to be downloaded.
[1/1] Fetching lcdproc-0.5.7_2.txz: .......... done
Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting)
[1/2] Installing lcdproc-0.5.7_2...
[1/2] Extracting lcdproc-0.5.7_2: .......... done
[2/2] Installing pfSense-pkg-LCDproc-0.10.5...
[2/2] Extracting pfSense-pkg-LCDproc-0.10.5: ......... done
Saving updated package information...
done.
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_resync_config_command()...done.
Menu items... done.
Services... done.
Writing configuration... done.
Message from lcdproc-0.5.7_2:

==============================================================
The default configuration files have been installed as
/usr/local/etc/LCDd.conf.sample
/usr/local/etc/lcdproc.conf.sample
/usr/local/etc/lcdexec.conf.sample

Copy and edit them as needed.
==============================================================
>>> Cleaning up cache... done.
Success

You have any other packages installed? Low drive space?

That looks like a general LCDproc issue though. Better to ask here:
https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=44034.0

Or maybe in the packages section generally.

Steve

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 8:53 AM

Hi, I have newly installed pfsense to my watchguard xtm5 series hardware via cf, installed to 500gb HDD. I have downloaded the lcdproc package from the package manager however I cannot get the display to work. The service won't start and if it does it reverts to defaults and the display just shows the bios version and nothing more,as it did before lcdproc package was installed. My understanding is you need to manually configure files. I am happy to do this but am not sure where to go, what files to modify and how to modify them.
Any assistance appreciated

stephenw10 · May 17, 2020, 10:58 AM

You should be able to use the package settings directly. The previous issues have mostly been eliminated with a recent round of bug fixes. Be sure to set some screens on the second tab or it won't start. So:

login-to-view

And then something like:

login-to-view

Steve

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 11:53 AM

@stephenw10 hi, I have done this exactly but the settings revert back to defaults and the service won't start

stephenw10 · May 17, 2020, 12:25 PM

Hmm, the package actually reverts to the default settings immediately?

If you check the config file directly (/conf/confg.xml) so you see the correct settings there?

		<lcdproc>
			<config>
				<enable>yes</enable>
				<comport>lpt1</comport>
				<size>20x2</size>
				<driver>sdeclcd</driver>
				<connection_type>lcd2usb</connection_type>
				<refresh_frequency>5</refresh_frequency>
				<port_speed>0</port_speed>
				<brightness>-1</brightness>
				<offbrightness>-1</offbrightness>
				<contrast>-1</contrast>
				<backlight>default</backlight>
				<outputleds>yes</outputleds>
				<mtxorb_type>lcd</mtxorb_type>
				<mtxorb_adjustable_backlight>yes</mtxorb_adjustable_backlight>
			</config>
		</lcdproc>
		<lcdprocscreens>
			<config>
				<scr_version></scr_version>
				<scr_time>yes</scr_time>
				<scr_uptime>yes</scr_uptime>
				<scr_hostname></scr_hostname>
				<scr_system></scr_system>
				<scr_disk></scr_disk>
				<scr_load>yes</scr_load>
				<scr_states></scr_states>
				<scr_carp></scr_carp>
				<scr_ipsec></scr_ipsec>
				<scr_slbd></scr_slbd>
				<scr_interfaces></scr_interfaces>
				<scr_mbuf></scr_mbuf>
				<scr_cpufrequency>yes</scr_cpufrequency>
				<scr_traffic></scr_traffic>
				<scr_traffic_interface>wan</scr_traffic_interface>
				<scr_top_interfaces_by_bps></scr_top_interfaces_by_bps>
				<scr_top_interfaces_by_total_bytes></scr_top_interfaces_by_total_bytes>
				<scr_top_interfaces_by_bytes_today></scr_top_interfaces_by_bytes_today>
				<scr_traffic_by_address></scr_traffic_by_address>
				<scr_traffic_by_address_if>wan</scr_traffic_by_address_if>
				<scr_traffic_by_address_sort>in</scr_traffic_by_address_sort>
				<scr_traffic_by_address_filter>local</scr_traffic_by_address_filter>
				<scr_traffic_by_address_hostipformat>descr</scr_traffic_by_address_hostipformat>
			</config>
		</lcdprocscreens>

The SDEC driver ignores a lot of those settings, some of them look incorrect there but are just not set.

Steve

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 12:44 PM

@stephenw10 hi I can't show you what mine says as I don't know how to copy the text in. It's unable to post it as thinks it's spam.
Mine doesn't show what yours shows.

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 1:11 PM

@stephenw10
login-to-view
login-to-view

stephenw10 · May 17, 2020, 1:48 PM

Hmm, so simply not saving the config. Are you able to make other changes there? Is it possible the user you're using has 'config deny write' set? Try using the admin user if you're not.

Do you see any errors in the system log when you try to enable the LCD?

Steve

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 3:45 PM

I am logged in as admin. I'll check the logs..

DrJon · May 17, 2020, 8:00 PM

@stephenw10 im sorry, where are the logs? still very new to this.