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Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2014 11:31 pm
by AwesomeNurd
Yeah it's logic anyway because when you launch the game or app, XBMC is not running anymore
I managed to add the date when you launch the game.
I will take a picture of my LCD screen when a game is running
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 2:36 am
by weinerschnitzel
Cool! This helps a bit! I thought about injecting the LCD code in as many homebrew apps as I could, but got lazy. Alas, you've given me enough interest to implement it in Surreal64.
@knarkuff I hope you are making progress getting kai reintegrated as well!
Has Links2XBMC ever caught your interest?
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 1:48 pm
by AwesomeNurd
What I really hope is seeing LCD support in CoinOPS
CoinOPS 6 will be released in a few days
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sun Feb 16, 2014 9:40 pm
by nayparm
That's awesome r32crazy01
this feature has been sadly missed for a long while. An big empty bright blue lcd sucked!
Maybe it will progress over time into a menu/advanced.xml option to enable lcd / disable lcd (i.e lcd on or completely off with no backlight) or even config what gets left on the display
at xbe launch.
If not it still rocks to have it back as it was
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Tue Feb 18, 2014 6:30 am
by r32crazy01
@nayparm
I liked your idea for having the option in advancedsettings.xml to either turn the LCD off while in the app/game with no back light or having it display the "Playing **" message.
I'm now using it like this on my Xbox, also after Buzz pointed out that its better to not prevent it running the CApplication::Stop function, I have changed it to still run the function but check to see if it stops the LCD while still shutting down the other services.
advancedsettings.xml
<lcdshowplaying>true</lcdshowplaying>
true = Shows the app/game name playing.
false = Turns the LCD off with no back light.
If the advancedsettings.xml file does not exist it defaults to true.
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Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Wed Feb 19, 2014 4:12 pm
by nayparm
Hey thanks r32crazy01, and a fast turnaround.
I will be giving this a go later on mate
Your time spent is much appreciated.
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:27 am
by r32crazy01
I made another change to the LCD code that I personally find useful on my Xbox. In screen saver mode rather than just displaying the free memory it cycles through the CPU, GPU,HDD temperatures and free memory, displaying each one for ten seconds. I can put up a copy if anyone is keen.
Demo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmAiJiPPkaY
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 4:42 pm
by fxmech
Yep
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 7:53 pm
by clabs
Yes please Crazy - I am keen too.
Thank you for your work - much appreciated
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 5:04 am
by r32crazy01
No worries, this one is based on the latest r32683.
If you are installing this over the top of another copy of XBMC remember to overwrite the LCD.XML in the user data folder. Also remember to enable the LCD in system settings.
As before you can configure advancedsettings.xml (see below), if the file does not exist it will default to true.
advancedsettings.xml
<lcdshowplaying>true</lcdshowplaying>
true = Shows the app/game name playing.
false = Turns the LCD off with no back light while in app/game.
Download Link
Re: Hello :) X3 LCD, Xlink Kai client
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 8:50 pm
by clabs
Thanks for the upload Crazy - really do appreciate it!
Looking forward to giving it a try when I get home