[vdr] Re: VFD Display Where?

[Harald Milz <hm@seneca.muc.de>]

Reinhard Walter Buchner <rw.buchner@freenet.de> wrote:

> Does anyone know where I could get a 4x20 VFD
> Display cheaply? I can get a 2x40 VFD for about

cheaply - well. At least Matrix Orbital does have a German distributor but
these devices aren't exactly cheap. 

> Does LCDProc & Martins LCD Plugin only use

LCDproc comes with a mapping file which is used to map character codes to
internal characters. You need to set your definitions before compile (at
least with lcdproc-0.4.4). 

> standard characters or does it also send user defined
> symbols? I nee to know this, because quite a few VFD
> can only display their own character set (i.e no user
> definables possible)

Maybe it's just me but I haven't seen anything like that in 0.4.4. I
haven't touched 0.5 yet, though. This question is better asked on the
lcdproc mailing list. 

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