Griffin Powermate and menu on lcd.

rickdawson · Post by **rickdawson** » September 30th, 2006, 1:15 am

I've just got a Griffin Powermate (black)
http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/powermate/

I want to be able to have a menu system on my LCD http://www.watercoolingshop.com/catalog ... 5a30a84226 and control it using the powermate. Any ideas of how to do this?

I'm trying to use the menu plugin and some form of input from the powermate using the 'actions' tab of Smartie.

I have started with the menu plugin samples as on the smartie site.

Anyone give me some pointers of what I should be doing.

rickdawson · Post by **rickdawson** » September 30th, 2006, 12:29 pm

I think I have found out what the problem(s) are, but I have not got a solution for this.

The powermate output is too quick and won't keep it on long enough for either of the input plug-ins to detect it.
or
The key input plugins are too slow.

It will work if I rapidly keep the powermate producing the output.
by keeping rotating it or pressing it rapidly.

can anyone help?

Post by **limbo** » September 30th, 2006, 12:33 pm

check the dll interval time on the LCD Smartie intarface. to be 50 msec

rickdawson · Post by **rickdawson** » September 30th, 2006, 12:43 pm

I've already tried changing it
still the same behaviour, even when set to 50ms

Post by **limbo** » September 30th, 2006, 6:26 pm

Unfortunate this plugin is a beta version and i can't say for sure that its possible to do something...

I'll try to download the source code and make some examination on it ASAP.