2016-01-13, 14:20
(2015-10-22, 17:53)popcornmix Wrote:(2015-10-22, 04:03)fastattack5 Wrote: Perhaps a dumb question, but are you able to get the display and the regular HDMI to run cloned? I am running the Millhouse nightly and it only displays to the 7" display although the sound comes through the TV...I know I am missing something. Ideally I would love the display to just to show the menu etc with the video actually played out the HDMI port but not sure (based on reading) that this is possible? Any help would be great...
Not supported. In theory it is possible but requires work.
Cloning the display is not quite trivial as the resolutions and aspect ratios are different. It would need code added to duplicate the GUI and video rendering code.
Running video on the one display and gui on other is quite trivial, but I suspect it won't be what you want. The OSD and subtitles will appear on the "wrong" display.
You probably also want photos and visualisations to appear on the big display, but they are part of GUI so that won't happen.
This is a real niche use case, so I'm unlikely to spend the considerable time needed to make it work nicely.
Nothing to stop someone else from implemented it, or perhaps a simpler scheme of using the LCD to display fanart or track details of what is playing (an enhanced LCDproc.
Currently, I'm working on some tool to achieve this.
Tthe tool is designed to show meta information (such us current title, artist, duration...) on a GPIO display.
The tool is not part of kodi but an independant background daemon.
Idea is to gather informations from other processes (e.g. kodi) via a software interface (JSON or stuff) and visualize these informations.
The use case will not be limited to Kodi and I want to have it customaziable via config files.
So, its possible one can see meta information about the current movie in Kodi, then get some information of the emulator game running in retroarch and when the media center is not being used (standby) the displays shows some holiday pictures, weather information or current time and date.
However, I'm in a very early alpha stage. When the initial project is set up properly (software architecture and stuff) I will make it open source.
EDIT: funny you mention LCDproc. Never heard of it but looks cool.
In fact, my tool is designed to be a GUI version of this, allowing background images, fanart, simple widgets and stuff.