Audioniek
02.01.2016, 22:45
First of all, all the best in the new year to everybody.
After finally getting an Octagon SF1008G+ SE+ (Fortis HS7429) I was able to revise the nuvoton front panel driver for these models. Support for them was missing, although these two receivers are very closely related to the HS7810A and HS7819 models. They effectively only differ regarding the display, the number of card readers and the cabinet size. In addition they have a component video output. The display in these models is a VFD, consisting of 8 15-segment characters. It has no user controllable icons, and the frontpanel features at least one red LED. Some models may have a second set of LEDs that illuminate the logo on the front panel (The Octagon does not have these LEDs).
The nuvoton driver has been expanded with support for these models. It has all the usual features of the other VFD models, but lacks icon control obviously. The red LED is LED #0, and the logo illumination is controllable as LED #1. As customary with Fortis receivers the LEDs have controllable brightness in 8 steps with level 0 being off. Display texts longer than 8 characters are scrolled once. Currently there is no UTF-8 support.
Example:
fp_control -l 0 4 # Set the red LED to brightness 4
The next step was adding the receivers to the git, which also has been done. This has resulted in an enhanced version of fp_control for example.
As usual, all can be found in my git (https://github.com/Audioniek). You can now build for these models in the usual fashion. The flash environment already supported these models; here a minor error has been corrected.
Regards,
Audioniek.
After finally getting an Octagon SF1008G+ SE+ (Fortis HS7429) I was able to revise the nuvoton front panel driver for these models. Support for them was missing, although these two receivers are very closely related to the HS7810A and HS7819 models. They effectively only differ regarding the display, the number of card readers and the cabinet size. In addition they have a component video output. The display in these models is a VFD, consisting of 8 15-segment characters. It has no user controllable icons, and the frontpanel features at least one red LED. Some models may have a second set of LEDs that illuminate the logo on the front panel (The Octagon does not have these LEDs).
The nuvoton driver has been expanded with support for these models. It has all the usual features of the other VFD models, but lacks icon control obviously. The red LED is LED #0, and the logo illumination is controllable as LED #1. As customary with Fortis receivers the LEDs have controllable brightness in 8 steps with level 0 being off. Display texts longer than 8 characters are scrolled once. Currently there is no UTF-8 support.
Example:
fp_control -l 0 4 # Set the red LED to brightness 4
The next step was adding the receivers to the git, which also has been done. This has resulted in an enhanced version of fp_control for example.
As usual, all can be found in my git (https://github.com/Audioniek). You can now build for these models in the usual fashion. The flash environment already supported these models; here a minor error has been corrected.
Regards,
Audioniek.