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1. picoLCD 256x64 SideShow from Mini Box com USER MANUAL Revision 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com CONTENT Hardware installation 06 4 2 Windows Vista driver installation 6 3 Linux driver installation 10 Sl Fy Si TNS LAA TO UM ais cates sary cas Sed cain E EEEE EAA EEA 10 3 2 Customizing your picoLCD display with plugins and widgets eccee 12 3 3 Customizing your picoLCD display with external python scripts 13 3 4 Controlling the display with the keypad KeyS ccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeseeeseeeeees 13 APDE E a vermastinaaistvonanes 14 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Welcome Thank you for purchasing the picoLCD 256x64 from mini box com Before you start installing the picoLCD 256x64 take note of the following precautions Unplug the power cord from the wall socket before installing the picoLCD256x64 Hold the picoLCD by the edges to avoid touching the display or the integrated circuits on it Before you install or remove any component ensure that the ATX power supply is switched off or the power cord is detached from the power supply Failure to do so may cause severe damage to the components peripherals or mainboard 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com 1 Hardware installation Depending on the picoL2. Home 0x02 Up Arrow 0x05 Down Arrow 0x07 0x06 2012 Rev 1 2
3. motherboard will be done using a USB 5 pin to 5 pin cable htto www mini box com USB 5 pin to 5 pin cable B Insert the USB cable into a free USB port from your computer http www mini box com CAB USB 5pin typeA 2012 Rev 1 2 5 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com 2 Windows Vista driver installation Windows Vista will automatically detect your device and install the HID drivers USB Human Interface Device installed The software for this device has been successfully installed USB Human Interface Device Ready to use Download the Windows Vista driver from our webpage at http www picolcd com drivers Run PicoLCD256x64_1 0 0 4 exe In case that you have forgotten to plug in the USB cable an error message will occur like in the picture below No device detected or device disabled Please plug in your device and restart Setup If the PicoLCD 1s plugged into an USB slot the driver installation will begin Wait until the setup will install the device driver Wait until setup is installing your devices This might take several minutes Please stop any software which is using Your device Updating device drivers for 1 device s Please wait WII mini box com 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Windows Vista will verify the publisher of the driver software Accept and install it is Windows Security p K Windows
4. at an interval and set a variable to hold the current pressed key Variables n 0 the key value taken from picoLCD gpi nkey 0 current pressed key 2012 Rev 1 2 13 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com A simple timer to get the key values Widget Timerw class Timer expression n LCD GPI 1 nkey n 0 n nkey active l update 100 This will read key pressed every 100ms and store the key values in nkey variable A table for current key values mapping 1s pressented in Appendix D You will also need to define a widget that does an action when a given key is pressed The keypad up key will display text Arrow Up Widget GPO kup class GPO expression nkey 5 Arrow Up Other key nkey 5 1 0 update 300 The last thing you need to do is to declare the key widgets and the timer defined above in the picoLCD layout section Layout picoLCD Rowl Coll GPO kup Timerl TimerW GPO1 GPO kup 4 Appendixes Appendix A Sample MRTG file for Linux MRTG display plugin EnableIPv6 no WorkDir var www mrtg RO LHe LZ cia OA LS Yorzetl2 pe0 20 12 30 Options 127 0 0 1 2 noborder nobanner nolegend integer tRMG TA Fe Oe Oe G2 yx Ml YLegend 127 0 0 1 2 Bytes s Target i At 070yd 215 oe besourcestl at 0s Oiccles SetEnv 127 0 0 1 2 MRTG INT IP 192 168 12 113 MRTG INT DESCR etho eal MaxBytes 127 0 2 12500000 Title 127 0 0 1 2 Traffic Analysis for picolcd c
5. can t verify the publisher of this driver software Don t install this driver software You should check your manufacturer s website for updated driver software for your device Install this driver software anyway Only install driver software obtained from your manufacturer s website or disc Unsigned software from other sources may harm your computer or steal information w See details Wait until the setup will install the device driver Wait until setup is installing your devices This might take several minutes Please stop any software which is using Your device Updating device drivers for 1 device s Please wait Www mini pox com Now you have successfully installed the drivers for the PicoLCD 256x64 Press OK 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Access the Control Panel and open Windows SideShow This will let you to configure your Windows SideShow settings 5 gt Control Panel h Search Category Control Panel Home Name e Classic View r A LA Internet iSCSI Initiator Keyboard Mouse Network and Offline Files Parental Options Sharing Ce Controls a g Pen and People Near Performance Personaliz Phone and Printers Input Devices Me Informatio Modem Buy z e 8 Problem Programs Regional and Scannersand Security Speech Reports a and Features Language Cameras Center Reco
6. 6 can t quite reach Samsung melds slate slider with Ultra To 2012 Rev 1 2 11 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com 3 2 Customizing your picoLCD display with plugins and widgets The easiest way to customize the information displayed by the picoLCD is to edit the configuration file etc lcd4linux conf and add other widgets plugins create different behaviors and display data as you see fit A sample Icd4linux conf file is available on Appendix B or in etc picoLCDGraphic Configs Available plugins are e Asterisk plugin e Config plugin e proc cpuinfo plugin e proc diskstats plugin e DVB plugin e exec external command plugin e FIFO plugin e file reading plugin e GPS NMEA plugin e hddtemp hard disk temperature e 2C sensors plugin e iconv charset converter plugin e ISDN Monitor amon plugin e ISDN plugin e KVV plugin e proc loadavg plugin e mathematical functions plugin e proc meminfo plugin e MPd plugin e MySQL plugin e proc net dev plugin e netinfo plugin e POP plugin e PPP plugin e proc stat plugin e Python plugin e Example plugin e SETI plugin e statfs plugin e string functions plugin e APM plugin e Time plugin e uname plugin e uptime plugin e WLAN plugin e XMMS plugin Available widgets are 2012 Rev 1 2 12 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com e Bar Widget e Icon Widget e Image Widget e Timer Widget e GPO Widget
7. CD 256x64 package that you purchase picoLCD 256x64 comes with either an external or internal USB connector cable Locate the USB header J4 onto the back of the PicoLCD 256x64 see the picture below Keyboard extension header Li ICSP Connecto c mini box cam PicoOLOCD 236x64 Extr a I O IR Receiver USB connector Header connector m Jl Keypad connector J2 Keyboard and keyboard extension header connector Pin 1 Column 1 Pin 2 Column 2 Pin 3 Column 3 Pin 4 Column 4 Pin 5 Row 4 Pin 6 Row 3 Pin 7 Row 2 Pin 8 Key not connected Pin 9 Row 1 J3 Extra I O Pin 1 RBO Pin 2 RB1 Pin 3 RC1 Pin 4 RC6 Pin 5 RC7 Pin 6 RAO Pin 7 RA1 Pin 8 Key not connected Pin 9 RA2 J4 USB connector Pin 1 USB V Pin 2 USB DPin 3 USB D Pin 4 USB GND Pin 5 Shield USB GND 2012 Rev 1 2 J5 IR Receiver Pin 1 GND Pin 2 GND Pin 3 VCC 5V Pin 4 Key not connected Pin 5 IR Signal J6 ICSP connector Pin 1 MCLR Pin 2 VCC 5V Pin 3 GND Pin 4 Data Pin 5 Clock picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Please see below the situations that you might encounter A The picture below represents a motherboard Please check the your motherboard s manual and locate a free USB header like in the picture below The connection between the picoLCD256x64 and the
8. General Purpose Inputs and Outputs e Keypad Widget e Text Widget More information on working with widgets plugins can be found on Icd4linux page at http ssl bulix org projects Icd4linux wiki Plugins http ssl bulix org projects Icd4linux wiki Layout http ssl bulix org projects Icd4linux wiki Evaluator 3 3 Customizing your picoLCD display with external python scripts Another powerful features is customization through user made scripts The scripts are written in python which is bundled with most linux distributions Both MRTG and RSS programs are written in python A sample python script to fetch MRTG images is presented in Appendix C Python scripts can be added to the display by creating a new widget and display iton a LCD Row as in the example below Widget MRTGMinute class Text expression currentFile python exec mrtg saveimage currentImage width 42 update 100 Layout picoLCD Rowl Coll MRTGMinute The python exec plugin will load the mrtg py script and call the saveimage function from the script with the currentImage as paramater The variable currentImage is a Icd4linux variable defined in the Icd4linux conf The python exec plugin will look for your scripts in default python search paths and in PYTHONPATH environment variable that can be set by user 3 4 Controlling the display with the keypad keys To make use of the picoLCD keys you first need to define a timer which will read the picoLCD keys
9. erver you will need to edit etc Icd4linux conf after the example from etc picoLCDGraphic Configs lcd4linux conf mrtg has been copied to etc Icd4linux conf with a text editor and change the lines eurrenulmage http 192 168 lt 17 113 mrcg 17 7 0 0 1 month png mrtgDayImageURL http 192 168 12 113 mrtg 127 0 0 1 2 day png 2012 Rev 1 2 10 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com mrtgWeekImageURL https 192 168 412 113 mrcg 127 0 0 1 2 week png To point to your MRTG server image URLs You can use the arrows buttons on the LCD to change the current displayed image A sample MRTG config file is presented in Appendix A The picoLCD RSS Viewer allows different RSS feeds to be downloaded and displayed on the LCD By default there are 3 feeds installed you can change these feeds by editing etc Icd4linux conf after the example from etc picoL CDGraphic Configs lcd4linux conf rss has been copied to etc Icd4linux conf and change the lines rssl http slashdot org slashdot rdf rss2 http www engadget com rss xml rss3 http www linuxsecurity com static content debian rss To point to your desired RSS feeds You can use the Home and Back button to change between the feeds and arrows buttons to scroll the feed news up and down httip HHH engadget con rss HHI page 0 Samsung introduces Lapfit monitors in a f Samsung s TouchWiz UI getting a MWC makeo PAPSI s WinCE based M435
10. gniti Sync Center System TabletPC Taskbar and Text to User Welcome Settings Start Menu Speech Accounts Center E ty E E Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows Windows CardSpace Defender Firewall Sidebar SideShow Update _ Configure your Windows SideShow settings By default Windows Vista will display one gadget If you want more gadgets please click Get more gadgets online e E Hardware and Sound Windows SideShow v Search Control Panel pP E Control Panel Home te Turn on gadgets on your Windows SideShow compatible devices View gadgets by name Click a device to change its settings You can also change the settings for some gadgets by clicking them View gadgets by date Uninstall a gadget dl Change device settings Gadgets PicoLCD 256x64x2 Change PC wake settings Get more gadgets online g Windows Media Player See also Devices and Printers 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com For example select Windows Media Player gadget and on your picoLCD256X64 it will show what the status of your Windows Media Player program like in the pictures below Windows Media Player Browse Media Library Go to Mow Playing List Go to Current Track Picture showing Sideshow menu chooser Sideshow Stocks Desktop Gadget Feed iewer T SideShow GMail 2012 Rev 1 2 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com 3 Linux driver i
11. nstallation 3 1 Driver installation Ubuntu Linux 32 64bit ppa https Jaunchpad net mini box com archive ppa follow this instruction to add ppa mini box com ppa to your Ubuntu distribution then use sudo apt get install picolcdgraphic command to install the prcoLCD driver or you can download a precompiled deb package for your Ubuntu distribution from this link By default there are 3 examples installed the first one it s a overview of your system internals like memory and cpu utilisation free hard drive space network bandwidth in use hard drive io in use date uptime and system information Look in etc picoLCDGraphic Configs for the examples To change the currently running example copy one of the configs from etc picoL CDGraphic Configs to etc Icd4linux conf Example sudo cp etc picoLCDGraphic Configs Icd4linux conf rss etc lcd4linux conf sudo chmod 600 etc Icd4linux conf and restart the running daemon sudo etc init d picolcdgraphic restart The program will continue to monitor your system on background and report the information on the LCD CPU 82 Fee RAM 11971010MB FREE IBE OUT 6 00MB IH amp 66hE CC Free Space o 55485 BFMB ETH OUT SH4KB IH S55KB E CPU Tenp 48C HE Tenp 2C Fan RFH 3800 Thu 15701 12 56 54 Uptime 2d 02 53 12 G fcf i636 Intel R PentiuntR gt 4 CPU 27 666 The picoLCD MRTG monitors allows MRTG graphs to be rendered on the picoLCD display To change the location of the MRTG s
12. om PageTop 12 7 002 lt bleTrartic Analysis for picolcda com lt nil gt lt div id sysdetails gt lt table gt lt tr gt lt td gt System lt td gt lt td gt picolcd com lt tqd gt Si Ot lt table gt LAINS Appendix B Sample Icd4linux conf file for Linux picoLCD software The display settings Display picoLCD Driver picoLCDGraphic Size 256x64 Contrast 250 Backlight 1 Inverted i Icons 1 2012 Rev 1 2 14 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Variables needed for script to function Variables n 0 the key value taken from picoLCD gpi nkey 0 current pressed key the current URL that will be passed to python script currentimage https 7192 166 1 2 1 T m tg 127 0504 montns pig currentImage will change it s value when arrows keys are pressed mregvaylmageURL hetpiy 7192 1638 12 113 mieig 12 7 0 0 1 2aday song mrtgWeekImageURL http 192 168 12 113 mrtg 127 0 0 1 2 week png currentFile variable holds the location of the saved image by the pyhon script currentFile tick 500 tack 100 minute 60000 A simple timer to get the key values Widget Timerw class Timer expression n LCD GPI 1 nkey n 0 n nkey active l update 100 This widget will display the URL of the current image on the LCD and also save the location of the downloaded file in the currentFile variable export PYTHONPATH which should point to the scripts location Widget MRTGMinute clas
13. s Text expression currentFile python exec mrtg saveimage currentImage width 42 update minute update 100 This is a graphic widget that will display the image downloaded by the above python script CurrentFile variable is set by the MRTGMinute widget Widget BandwidthImage class Image file currentFile visible l inverted 0 reload 1 update minute The keypad up key which will change the current image to the mrtg week graphs Widget GPO kup class GPO expression currentImage nkey 5 mrtgDayImageURL currentImage nkey 5 1 0 update 300 Widget GPO kdown class GPO expression currentImage nkey 7 mrtgWeekImageURL currentImage nkey 7 1 0 update 300 Layout picoLCD Rowl Coll MRTGMinute Layer 1 XO0 YO BandwidthImage Timerl TimerW GPO2 GPO kup GPO3 GPO kdown Display picoLCD Layout picoLCD 2012 Rev 1 2 15 picoLCD 256X64 USB LCD User Manual by Mini Box com Appendix C Sample python script for Linux picoLCD import urllib import shutil download path tmp def saveimage imageurl filename imageurl split 1 tmpname filename tmp try urllib urlretrieve imageurl download path tmpname except IOError return Error downloading file else shutil move download path tmpname download path filename return download path filename Appendix D Key and values mapping for Linux software Key name Key Value Back 0x01
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