kirtangl
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Thanks! I really appreciate it, started out fairly simple but I just got a new resin printer and wanted to throw myself into the deep end and ended up here haha, chose clear because I have LEDs behind the monitor and the panel that replicate what is on the screen, The gauges, along with the physical pots etc, love it! I had another suggestion I thought I would run by you. I am not sure if this is just my issue or maybe others have similar, but I believe the VUServer takes around a minute to load in, and aida64 loads relatively fast on startup. As such the dials would not load up unless I close and open the app. I fixed this by just putting AIDA64 into a schedule task that waits 2 minutes, not a big deal, but I reckon adding a ping to check if the VU servers are there every 15-30 seconds or so and once they are start the dials might be a nice work around. Also a side note, I have noticed you have to be careful because sometimes when shutting down the dials don't turn off, but I think this is actually a side effect of the issues I am having with the dials timing out, and nothing todo with the way windows or aida shutdown. Cheers
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Cheers mate, yeah I think the amount of colour spots is just enough for me, I did white (Warm white, or as close as you can with RGB) and than have it go-to Yellow, Orange / Red once it gets to my thresholds, which is perfect! I tested all 6 gauges also, if it helps, I have attached an image, I love the aesthetic, and it works so flawlessly. Only suggestion I would have would be to pull the gauge name from the API (And maybe sort by name in the dropdown), as it was a little hard to tell what gauge is what when setting up 6, but honestly nothing too extreme, and once they are setup once, they have the "CPU" etc name tag which makes updating easy
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Fiery, I finally received my replacement unit (Still have timeout issues, I would love to see if anyone else has this issue but that's a topic for elsewhere). I bought / renewed my license and updated/DL the beta, I have not updated in so long, I swear this runs so much cleaner than the version I was running first of all, about a 1-2% CPU drop But as for the VU dials, not only does it work, and the colour shifting seems pretty decent etc, but it also somewhat solved my timeout issue, since I can set the update to ever 1-2 seconds, rather then every 50ms that I was using, it does limit the timeouts to every few minutes rather than a few times a minute. Anyhow, back on topic, I am wondering, so as for now, the default is do allow you to set the dial, the icon, text etc, I assume, if I was to use my own background image, I would just disable all of these, but I cant add an image etc, (This isnt a big deal, I just had a set of backgrounds I created that I like, with my own icons etc that I spent a while making work in 1-bit color grading :D) Also, this is more of a question for the background colours, the default is 0, 25, 50, 75, 100, I assume if I wanted to just have white from 0-50, and then have it shift gradually from white to orange, etc, that I can set the second number to 50, and this does not affect the scale? or is that all tied in? Thanks again mate, looks beautiful, is so rescores friendly, and I am thrilled that I can now have all the gauges / sensor panels in one place!
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Yeah and that is completely understandable, I wouldn't mind the ability to not update the eInk at all, so maybe the option to just upload a background image. I made custom backgrounds, and because of that I have the icons etc separate so I am sure I can make it work, but it could be a nice option also, and then there is no worry about having the updates at all. Also since in theory the backgrounds are static, you could always just disable auto updating and have a refresh button (Just a thought but I guess that makes things a little more complicated for a single use case).
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Hey mate, the way I handled it was just to update the image to someting with a gauge scale, an icon (little CPU for instance) and a name, and then leave the value for the actual needle, it takes around 2-3 seconds to update the screen anyhow. For easy to notice alerts, I just update the background LED to a gradient, eg, my base BG is white, and then if it hits a threshold of say 50, it goes yellow, then between 50 and 80 it fades between, yellow, Orange and red. That has been working well for me I have not had a chance to check out the beta yet (I am working with their support to resolve this timeout issue I am having), sorry, but I see @osxdude has, and it looks amazing, just a note, the way the updates seem to work, is the easing sets the max they can move, and how often etc, default is every 50ms but max 2% I think, so if your CPU usages goes from 10-50, and you update every 500ms, it will update max 2% every 50ms until your next input... but you can adjust the easing settings, both the ms between updates, the % amount etc, which can be set in the web UI (kinda) or using the API, if that helps, you can set the max % to 100 (I have) but it gets pretty erratic Edit: Just to add on some of your points. 2, I have 6 gauges (Sorry :D), but for testing I am happy to try 4, I think I will be getting my hub RMA'd soon so I will let you know. 5, I also had issues getting in contact with him, you might find better support from streacom support directly, they have been VERY responsive, and helpful, they seem to understand the product, but they do not seem to have direct control over the software unfortunately. 6, The way their demo and how I have handled it, I just set the needle to 0 and LED to off when closing the app, because otherwise if you shutdown they stay on in some cases, but leaving the lcd as a static image seems perfectly acceptable (Preferred in my case). And just a note, I am not 100% sure on the quality, model etc of their display, but most eink displays can handle 50-100 million updates before they start to fail, and they will more than likely fail in other ways before that, so I wouldn't be too concerned about accidentally updating too frequently etc.
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Perfect, I am grateful that it is being worked on at all, it seems like a niche product, hopefully with AIDA support they become more popular!
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Hi, sorry to double post, I just wanted to add, it might be worth looking into both direct updating the gauges over serial, as well as the API, I might be the exception (It's hard to know since the community seems rather small atm), but I have had issues where the server freezes up, or times out a lot when you want those gauges working the most, while my SensorPanel and aida64 continues to run perfectly. It could just be something I need to resolve, I have asked them for support but just a heads up :)
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This is great news. I managed to get mine to display the main things I want, but have not got the backlights changing based on values etc, so I have it to a point that I am happy to wait as long as it takes! Having it built in natively to will be amazing, not just for me but the future of the dials themselves, their forum seems to be a little lacking and AIDA is probably the most popular SensorPanel app around, so I hope its the boost they need to keep making them, and see the community grow. Side note, absolutely love how they look / compliment the LCD SensorPanel I already have, it's a nice mix of new and old.
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Hi there, This is by no means me rushing you , I was just working on a python script to pull data from Afterburner and RTSS to send to my VU1 dials, and I had an issue where it was freezing up and was looking for info when I stumbled upon this post. I actually already use AIDA64 for a screen I have, so if I can use it for my VU1 also (Or alternatively) this will save me loads of headaches and probably be 1000x more polished than any "Temporary" solution I come up with . All of that fluff to say, any updates? Did you receive the VU1 and have you looked into adding support either with or without the server they provide etc? Cheers
