any way to make the G510 lights act as a visualizer

• Yes - it is possible to make most (maybe all) the lights on various Logitech products light up from software.
• No - it is only possible by reverse engineering the drivers as Logitech do not provide such functionality in the SDK. People have done it and there is software out there that does it (for some Logitech products at least), but technically it is against the license agreement provided with the hardware/drivers making it an area of questionable legality - additionally using undocumented "features" of hardware through a reverse engineered driver could easily cause hardware failures. I have requested Logitech support this via the SDK but they seem unwilling to do so.

• Change font type/size per line (I have lots of unicode (chinese/japanese) in my library so I need to increase the font size to display them properly, but at that text size I can't fit 3 lines of text. However a lot of times my second and what-would-be-third line would just be ascii (date, rating, genre, etc.) and would fit if they had smaller text sizes.
  • e.g. line 1: artist - title (large unicode); line 2: rating, genre (small ascii); line 3: comments (small ascii)
• Alternatively, separate fonts for unicode and non-unicode text
• Adjustable margin between lines (instead of just overlap on/off, allow +- n px)
• Full customization of what the media buttons (1-4 on my Z-10) do, I would like 1-3 to change to various text modes and 4 to activate visualization)
  • i would REALLY love it if i could use those media buttons to adjust the ratings of my songs (e.g. '4' to activate rating mode, '1' to -1, '2' to +1, '3' to cancel and '4' to save)
• custom font for progress bar (or no font at all)
• scroll more than 1px at once (the Z10 LCD has a horrible refresh rate, it would be a lot easier on the eyes if it just scrolled say 5 px at once)
  • different scroll mode (I prefer pan left/right over marquee)
• adjustable refresh rate for visualizations (poor refresh rate on Z-10)

works great on my Z-10 with Logitech LCD manager 3.06! thanks!

some suggestions should you (or someone else) ever continue to work on this plugin:

Change font type/size per line

i would REALLY love it if i could use those media buttons to adjust the ratings of my song

custom font for progress bar (or no font at all)

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any way to make the G510 lights act as a visualizer

Short answer: Yes & No

Long answer:

• Yes - it is possible to make most (maybe all) the lights on various Logitech products light up from software.
• No - it is only possible by reverse engineering the drivers as Logitech do not provide such functionality in the SDK. People have done it and there is software out there that does it (for some Logitech products at least), but technically it is against the license agreement provided with the hardware/drivers making it an area of questionable legality - additionally using undocumented "features" of hardware through a reverse engineered driver could easily cause hardware failures. I have requested Logitech support this via the SDK but they seem unwilling to do so.

For the record I do not know if it is possible on the G510 per-say, but I expect it would be if it is anything like the other Logitech products.

Given the problems with legality and potential hardware issues I am not going to provide such functionality in the component at present - I'm keeping an eye on the situation though, if things change then I'd happily add it!

HTH

I take it that there is no documented way to change the backlight, and to do it in any way you have to reverse engineer Logitechs own software? I see the problem.

In LUA it is easy to change the backlight, but that runs under Logitechs own proprietary software. I was hoping to somehow use a LUA script that accepted inputs from another software/dll called from the media player of chose but maybe that isn't so easy.

I found another thread about doing this with the G15, but that didn't work for me as it seemed to require exact versions of drivers, WinAMP and some other stuff. Maybe I'll try it on another computer.

Here's for hoping Logitech furthers their SDK, anyway...

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Change font type/size per line

I was thinking about the ability to change font anywhere in the text (via a special "font" function) which would help with this, but it'd be a bit more difficult to use than the current method of selecting fonts.

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custom font for progress bar (or no font at all)

Custom font would be fine - but I'm not sure what you mean by not font at all??

expert mode toggle

that was before i discovered the 'off' option for left time/right time, which was what i meant by no font.

Another thing I noticed is that %playback_time_seconds% and similar tags don't work. I was trying this was because I wanted to toggle a row every few seconds between Artist and Album. (again, because of poor scrolling/refresh on the Z-10's LCD) The reason i wanted %playback_time_seconds% was because I could truncate it to last second, then $ifgreater it which would let me alternate tags every 5 seconds, lol.

As you already have playback time with the progress bar, is there any alternate syntax to get the playback time info?

Had to register so that I could thank you for making this awesome plugin for the G19 and G13. I no longer regret spending ~$150 on a keyboard now.

I do have one question/suggestion tho;
is it possible to add a clock + date to the track info page?

BTW in case you missed it, the progress bar can display date & time instead of track time - just select to appropriate item in the drop down menus. (I'll still add it to the track info pages though.)

I did miss it, and that actually works perfect since I don't need the track time. It displays 24 hour time tho, I'm use to it but like 12 hour time better.
Actually would it be possible to make the progress bar and time work like the %codes% where you could have them wherever you want them or turn them completely off.

P.S. do you accept donations?

Hi,

I have a Z-10 speaker...but nothing showed on the speaker display.
...
foobar version: 1.1.15
LCD Manager version: 1.0.4 153

Is there any idea why doesn't wok?

The media display program is enabled in the LCD manager software, but doesn't showed foobar in the configure menu where list Media players.

Thanks for the quick answear.

I checked the console and found these errors:

foo_logitech_lcd.dll [Error] (.\LCDWrapper.cpp, `anonymous-namespace'::APIInit, 723): LCD drivers not installed or incorrect version.
foo_logitech_lcd.dll [Error] (.\LCDWrapper.cpp, NLCD::CConnection::NewConnection, 657): Failed to initialise LCD API
foo_logitech_lcd.dll [Error] (.\foobarDLL.cpp, CFoobarDLL::on_init, 115): Failed to connect to LCD API. Plugin will be unavailable.

Then uninstalled the old LCD manager which was for the Z-10 and then the same error messages showed again on the console, which is interesting.

Now the error messages gone, but still nothing on the LCD screen.

Do you have any other idea?

I'm using Win7 64bit so we can try with the older driver.

Yes I should think that will be possible

Though as ever, no promises.

If you don't mind getting your hands a little dirty you can actually use (abuse?  ) foobars formatting engine to emulate line wrapping - it is not perfect, but it might be "good enough" in the short term.

For example:

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$puts(MyText,%album artist%)
$puts(MaxLen,19)
$select(
$add($div($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen)),1),
$get(MyText),
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen)),
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen)),
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen))$char(10)
$puts(MyText,$right($get(MyText),$sub($len($get(MyText)),$get(MaxLen))))
$substr($get(MyText),0,$get(MaxLen)))

Before:
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

After:
...And You Will Kno
w Us By The Trail O
f Dead

So, yeah, um, close. Kinda.   

As you can see it looks pretty horrendous though and while it might be possible to do better it's unlikely to get much nicer.

If you want to try out what I posted, you can simple copy and paste that code into the Track Info dialog box - replace "%album artist%" (on the first line) with the text you want to split if it is too long, replace "19" on the second line with the number of characters you want the line length to be - anything longer than this will be split into multiple lines. The code will wrap anything longer than the number of characters you specify for up to 4 lines - more lines requires more code, but is just the same idea. If you decide to edit/expand what I've written I highly recommend doing editing work in an external text editor - makes life a little easier.

Oh and make sure you have "Expert Mode" enabled in the component before you try this!

Hope that makes sense  Feel free to let me know if it doesn't - would be happy to help you get my temporary fix working!

Would be really interested if anyone can improve on my title formatting code (not that I spent all that long working on it).

It would be useful to be able to add something like %system_date% and %system_time% into the tags so that I could fill that into line 1 and 2 as well as having the progress bar.

Not only is it possible - but it is something I actually coded a little while back - so it will be in the next version...