Centrafuse VFD commands?

**ContaiN** · 09-11-2008, 07:02 PM

Hey guys, I've been fighting a losing battle with the Centrafuse VFD plugin and am soon considering conceiting defeat. I may go with LCDSmartie, but I still want the majority of Centrafuse VFD related things to be shown, IE, GPS songs etc.

IS there anyway I can export the VFD commands from CF to Smartie? Like Winamp &Title etc?

Any help would be much appreciative.

**ContaiN** · 09-14-2008, 05:31 AM

C'mon guys? Anyone? CF must use some form of code/command for the VFD that can be transposed in other applications

**veetid** · 09-15-2008, 05:49 PM

the data is available to a CFPlugin, so a plugin could be created to talk to the device and send the data that you want...

the internal should be working if you have an HD44780, I can no longer test as the one unit I used for testing does not work anymore, but it did last time I tested and released the latest VFD code...

david

**ContaiN** · 09-15-2008, 06:38 PM

I'm not sure how you mean David, available to a plugin? I'd be happy to use the integrated VFD if it worked, but 2 screens later still not working.

I could send mine to you to test if you'd like

**Bxsteez** · 09-26-2008, 12:18 AM

Hey i've been trying to write a plugin that communicates with serial ports. I can't seem to figure out how the CF plugin is constantly running. Here is my plan I want open a com port and wait for a data received exception to happen then read a byte and execute a CF command. i'm not sure what VFD is but this sounds similiar to what you are looking for. I didn't want to start a new thread so i jumped on urs let me know if this is completely off topic.

Veetid,

Can you answer a few of these questions for me??

**veetid** · 10-01-2008, 02:44 PM

you can create a plugin in .NET 2.0, and open of the serial communication in your own Thread and call CF commands whenever neccesary...

david

**Bxsteez** · 10-01-2008, 03:43 PM

Thanks.... A little too late though lol. I already finished writing a plugin in C++ of course i still need to write some embedded code for either fusion brain or Arduino Diecimila and have it send the command over serial from a button pressed. My c++ was so horribly rusty lol..