ScottishCaptain
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Greetings to all!
I'm just wondering... What is the status of CrystalControl under Linux?
I'm building myself a network firewall, and I'd love to have a CFonts 635 display powering the relativly headless (no monitor) machine.
Unfortunately LCDproc and LCD4Linux have almost no support for Menu's and keypads on the LCD's. If they do, it probably isn't what I'm thinking of- having a scrollable/selectable menu/tree system where you can gather system stats and execute commands. Something completely customizable that could control the entire system through the LCD, if setup properly.
A display like the 635 could even act as a small "Bash" terminal, if you want to run some small command like `load` or `uptime`, `halt`, etc.
I've played with CFontz displays under Linux with some C++ programming.
I'd be willing to go ahead and program a Crystalfontz control program in C composed of a Daemon that reads in a configuration file and runs the display with a GTK/GTK2 frontend for creating such a file.
I do believe that such a display coupled with a proper Linux driving program could be quite a product- It would save much deskspace if server systems & firewalls didn't need monitors or keyboards, all operated through a 635 LCD instead.
Is anyone interested in such a program? I'd be willing to write it and send it off here on the forum with some documentation as well as the GTK2 frontend if there is a want for such a package.
Cheers!
I'm just wondering... What is the status of CrystalControl under Linux?
I'm building myself a network firewall, and I'd love to have a CFonts 635 display powering the relativly headless (no monitor) machine.
Unfortunately LCDproc and LCD4Linux have almost no support for Menu's and keypads on the LCD's. If they do, it probably isn't what I'm thinking of- having a scrollable/selectable menu/tree system where you can gather system stats and execute commands. Something completely customizable that could control the entire system through the LCD, if setup properly.
A display like the 635 could even act as a small "Bash" terminal, if you want to run some small command like `load` or `uptime`, `halt`, etc.
I've played with CFontz displays under Linux with some C++ programming.
I'd be willing to go ahead and program a Crystalfontz control program in C composed of a Daemon that reads in a configuration file and runs the display with a GTK/GTK2 frontend for creating such a file.
I do believe that such a display coupled with a proper Linux driving program could be quite a product- It would save much deskspace if server systems & firewalls didn't need monitors or keyboards, all operated through a 635 LCD instead.
Is anyone interested in such a program? I'd be willing to write it and send it off here on the forum with some documentation as well as the GTK2 frontend if there is a want for such a package.
Cheers!
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