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@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +This is a "plugin" for the Video Disk Recorder (VDR). + +Written by: Martin Hammerschmid <martin@hammerschmid.com> + +Project's homepage: home.pages.at/linux/dvb.html + +Latest version available at: http://home.pages.at/linux/dvb.html + +See the file COPYING for license information. + +Description: Output to LCD modules that are supported by LCDproc + +------------------------------------------------------------------------- + +vdr -Plcdproc or -P"lcdproc -h <host> -p <port>" ... makes vdr connect to a LCDd. + +Current channel info and menus are then displayed on the LCD too. + +I had a 4x20 character display in mind but it should +work with 4x16 up to 4x40. + +LCDd can be used in an xterm or console too, so it +might be useful even without having the hardware. +( ./LCDd -d curses ) + +lcdtranstbl-xxx.h is used to map characters for output to LCDd. +Depending on the LCD hardware some characters may not displayed +correctly, you can fix that by altering this table ... +use lcdtranstbl-nomap.h if you don't want anything mapped. +what table is used can be selected at compile time: +e.g. ... LCDTRANS=CFontz make plugins ... +values for LCDTRANS are 'hd44780', 'CFontz' and 'nomap' ('hd44780' is the default value). +Thanks to Stephan Schreiber <stephan@sschreiber.de> for lcdtranstbl-CFontz.h. + +LCDproc is available at http://lcdproc.omnipotent.net/ +or here http://sourceforge.net/projects/lcdproc/ + + What's needed to run a LCD? + + Hardware: + + I used a single 4x20 LCD that works with the hd44780 8-bit driver on + the printer port. + ( availible at http://www.conrad.com/ product ID: 187275 + or see http://www.lcd-module.de/eng/doma/standard.htm ) + + printer port LCD + ---------------------------------------------------------------------- + GND (1) (used the PC's power suppy (black cable)) + +5V (2) (used the PC's power suppy (red cable)) + Vadj (3) (contrast, conneced to GND works fine for me) + + D0 (2) D0 (7) + D1 (3) D1 (8) + D2 (4) D2 (9) + D3 (5) D3 (10) + D4 (6) D4 (11) + D5 (7) D5 (12) + D6 (8) D6 (13) + D7 (9) D7 (14) + nSTRB (1) EN (6) + INIT (16) RS (4) + RW (5) (connected to GND (1) of the LCD) + GND (18-25) + --- optional for LCDs with background illumination --- + + LED+ (15) (connected to +5V over a 100Ohm resisitor + to make it not too bright) + LED- (16) (connected to GND) + + Software: + + Last tested with lcdproc-0.4.1 ( http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/lcdproc/lcdproc-0.4.1.tar.gz ) + LCDd -d HD44780 "-p 0x3bc -c winamp" + should run LCDd for the hardware described above conneceted to the + printer port (in my case the port's base address is 0x3bc). + +Martin |