[vdr] Re: LCD-plugin for VDR / 16x2 Display

[Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com>]

Achim Lange wrote:
> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> thank you for your great LCD-plugin, I am using it with VDR 1.0.4
> AIO1009. (tried it with 1.1.x already, also great)
> 
> Now finally my new case ( http://www.heimkino.at/dign.htm ) arrived and
> it has a beautiful integrated VFD (
> http://www.heimkino.at/produkte/htpc/vfd.htm ).
> 
> Unfortunately it only has 16x2 characters. I was able to make it "work"
> by changing the following line in vdr.c:
> 
>    if ((hgt < 4 ) || (wid < 16)) connected = false; // 4 lines are
> needed, may work with more than 4 though
> 
> I just changed the 4 into 2 and it started working. Of course not
> perfectly, but mostly is shows the first two rows (date+time,
> channel-nr.+channel-name) , while recording the first line shows the
> card stati in exchange with date+time.
> 
> I tried to dig in deeper into your code, but as my last experience in
> C-programming lies 15 years ago, I did not find out, what to change.
> 
> I would dream of something like (while normal viewing):
> 
> first line, up 10 characters, number and name of channel (cut if longer)
> one blank
> first line last 5 characters Time (hh:mm)
> second line what is currently running, like "20:00 Tagesschau",
> possibly scrolling, if the name of the program gets longer
> 
> would it be completely restructuring your code to implement something
> like this? or could it be even runtime-dynamic with regard to hgt and
> wid ?
> 


Martin

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