[mythtv-users] Anyone using an iMon LCD display

[Dean Harding]

Anthony Giggins wrote:
> Yes I know, I'm RXM307 on that forum :)
> 
> Theres no progress though, no one can tell me what I need to do to get
> this device working under linux :(

The way I did it for the original LCD was, I connected the device to a 
Windows box, downloaded a USB packet sniffer, and used the device via 
the Windows drivers, checking out what USB packets were being sent 
to/from the LCD.

I was lucky, though, because the MediaPortal guys had already reverse 
engineered the protocol used by the SG_VFD.DLL that comes with the 
Windows software (and that's what they were using to drive the LCD from 
MediaPortal). I just needed to the use the packet sniffer to confirm 
that the protocol used by SG_VFD.DLL was pretty much directly translated 
into USB packets and sent to the device. I don't know if you'll be as 
lucky :-)

Dean.