VFD Brightness Control?

FormatC: · Post by **FormatC:** » November 13th, 2005, 10:42 pm

Can LCD Smartie control the brightness of the VFD? I have a Noritake ISE Elecronics CU24025ECPB-U1J 2 X 24 VFD and it has 4 Levels of software brightness can I controll that through LCD Smartie?

Eugene · Post by **Eugene** » May 20th, 2006, 2:18 pm

I modified HD44780.dll driver for Smartie 5.4B3 to work with my Futaba VFD (LCD compatible). Now it changes brightness and turns display on/off. It also may be compatible with your VFD. I could send you the modified dll.

lazybones · Post by **lazybones** » September 22nd, 2006, 2:56 am

Hmm I also have a Futaba VFD, I would love a copy of that DLL.

Eugene · Post by **Eugene** » November 13th, 2006, 7:33 pm

Your e-mail?

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » January 4th, 2007, 3:04 pm

Is this a change that broke other things or are you just adding functionality? If so, I would encourage you to add the code to the production DLL. I can add it if you're not set up as a developer. Let me know...

Eugene · Post by **Eugene** » February 10th, 2007, 11:23 am

Nothing has been broken, I've just added new functionality. Brightness can be changed in 5 steps from no backlight to maximum.

Look into your mailbox on fastec.com. I've just sent you a rar with the driver.

Post by **limbo** » February 10th, 2007, 3:05 pm

Eugene wrote:Nothing has been broken, I've just added new functionality. Brightness can be changed in 5 steps from no backlight to maximum.

Look into your mailbox on fastec.com. I've just sent you a rar with the driver.

Can you upload this driver here in order to help more people? (use the attach function

)

Fast351 · Post by **Fast351** » February 10th, 2007, 4:33 pm

Here is the compiled image. I will include it in the official release when we do that....

http://www.fast351.com/hometheater/htpc ... FD_LCD.dll

(Couldn't figure out how to attach a file...)

lazybones · Post by **lazybones** » February 25th, 2007, 11:57 am

Just wanted to follow up and say this works on my display.

I wish there was an action for brightness.. It would be nice to be able to dim the display along with an action.

Eugene · Post by **Eugene** » February 26th, 2007, 8:14 pm

lazybones
Fast351

I made a solution for brightness control in actions:

FutabaVFD_LCD.dll can decrement brightness level from maximum to no backlight and back to maximum. This feature is included in the dll that I sent to you earlier. In addition I made a special dll that can be called in actions. This dll uses display driver function SetBrightness(-1). I sent this dll to you by e-mail because I can't attach files here.

Put the dll into plugins directory and add this action: If $dll(hotkey,1,,) > 0 then $dll(DecBrightness,1,FutabaVFD_LCD.dll,)

Please take into account that this is rather experimental.

P.S. You need hotkey.dll to use global hotkeys.

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