Not much to tell there, with the gx you are no longer locked to one application to do it all for you like the serial units. The MCE app for the gx runs fine next to Lcdstudio or any other application you migh run (or write your selve) .

Microsoft defines two ehome emulation standards


Types of Emulation Devices
IR Transceiver Version 2 emulator: a device that can receive IR input from a remote and can transmit IR to control a set-top box, such as a TV signal cable box or a satellite box.
IR Receiver Version 3 emulator: a device ...

The front panel support for mce will not be done by lcdstudio, it will have its own application. for IR support nothing is needed inside studio, the GX follows the microsoft ehome reciever specifications so windows will pick up on it out of the box without any additional software.

Driver Core: The engine that makes everything go, so no Drivercore, no LCD, no information on the GX Typhoon



Does this mean Typhoon will not be able to work with LCD Smartie ( http://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net ), Axcis Dashboard ( http://www.axcis.com.au ), Media Center Magic FrontView ( http ...

Scrolling is not that hard to do it's just a bit of manipulation with strings.
Assuming you already know how to talk to the display i'll skip that part. (if
you don't look up a tutorial on serial communication with vb6 and use the
lk manual to see what commands you can send)

Lets imageine we ...

The three colors are red, green and blue but to make it even nicer you can specifiy the brightness of each in 256 steps giving you a nice range of colors to pick from.

I have a rather crappy movie of it here . I'm sorry about the lousy video and audio quality i'm sure henry's official movie will be ...

Aslong as they all are in the same folder you should be ok.

It is correct you cannot install by right clicking the inf and installing it but you must go through the device manager.

Did you extract the complete zipfile to the folder you specified or did you only put the inf files in there?

If you did extract all files to a single folder and it still ...

Thats not possible, the LCD2041 is a character mode lcd so it's limited to the standard font thats inside the controller chip. You are allowed to define up to 8 custom characters so in theory you could be able to define 4 double line characters but thats about the best you can do on this model.

The ...

You can use mogd# to generate the fonts, it generates a seperate bmp file for each ascii character it generates that should get you started.

The MX2 uses a FTDI chip (FT232) for usb comminication, FTDI lists someone that made some drivers QNX drivers for the FT245 series in its 3rd party section over here.

You might be able to use that as a starting point or perhaps using a regular serial display would be easier to work with in QNX.

Display ON/OFF command on the hd44780 controls the output to the lcd (if your characters are visible or not) and the cusor (visible/invisible/blinking) the hd44780 controller has no control over the backlight at all.

You do not have to check the busy flag in between nibbles only after a complete ...

Actually it is normal, while a PLED takes over 10.000+ hours to get to its halflife (the point it's half as bright as it originally was) it's a non linear process. it loses about 25% in the first 1000 hours then slowly fade the other 25 % in the next 9000 hours.

The following graph shows the ...

Give Portmon a go, it can tell you which process is writing to the serial port.

First of all the controller needs the delays, you can't just take them out and expect it still to work those where there for a reason ;)

second depending a bit on your operating system you might not have write access to the lpt port, while this was allowed in dos and earlier versions of windows (3 ...