LCD Smartie running as service?

[rmg]

Hi

I tried using srvany to run LCD Smartie as a service, but couldn't get it to work.

I am using iMON custom VFD (Thermaltake one) with USBPort.dll set up with Matrix Orbital (USB Palm) - this way I got it to work.

When I added the AppParameters registry string with the LCD Smartie Path, it just opens an instance which isn't correctly configured (not for my display)
But without AppParameters it says that Couldn't find the USBPort.dll.

What am I missing?

Thanks in advance

[Fast351]

Try 5.4? It's got native iMON support, maybe the USB DLL isn't loading correctly into the service....

-Mike

[rmg]

Ok, I'll give it a try

[rmg]

Now tested the 5.4, yeah, the support for iMon looks better, but the service thing does not work yet, but maybe I just don't know how to start it right.

If I add the AppParameters string in the registry with the -srvany -config <path-to-config-ini> value I get Smartie instance as if I'd put a wrong config file parameter in the command line.
The instance has 4x40 characters and shows nothing (it's blank).
Without the App Parameters, i get the following error:

Failed to open device: DLL Initialize error: IMON.DLL Exception: <sq_vfd.dll> not found!

So how could I get it to work.

-edit-

Heureka!
I got it working.
The solution:
I didn't need the AppParameters string in the registry at all, I just needed to modify the config.ini ->
DisplayDLLParameters=<full path to SG_VFD.dll directory>
Now I love LCD Smartie even more
Great work guys