VU1 dial support

[osxdude]

I've taken a huge interest in Sasa Karanovic's VU meter system monitoring. There was at least one moderately popular video containing it. Problem is, nobody is buying and nobody is making plugins. Unfortunately, I'm not a developer and don't really have an interest in becoming one. Yeah, there's other ways, but needle dials are cool. I hate to make a request like this, but the engineer who created it told me to, and I haven't seen anything develop. So far, I've only found one plug in for Fan Control.

How can we get this into AIDA64?

My ideas for AIDA64 support include:

• RGB backlight support (temp thresholds, etc)
• Automatic dial background image generation and setting(to allow for when a dial page changes, the label on the dial changes)
• Multi-page support
• Software dial hiding (so one could hook another application into a specific dial)

Would be neat to just install the "server" software and check a box in AIDA64 to use them like the many other things supported. It's just HTTP GET requests to a web server. This would allow dials to be used over the network as well.

The hardest part is the price of the dials themselves. A starter kit (3 dials and a hub) is just under $200 USD shipped if you're interested.

[Fiery]

20 hours ago, osxdude said:

I've taken a huge interest in Sasa Karanovic's VU meter system monitoring. There was at least one moderately popular video containing it. Problem is, nobody is buying and nobody is making plugins. Unfortunately, I'm not a developer and don't really have an interest in becoming one. Yeah, there's other ways, but needle dials are cool. I hate to make a request like this, but the engineer who created it told me to, and I haven't seen anything develop. So far, I've only found one plug in for Fan Control.

How can we get this into AIDA64?

My ideas for AIDA64 support include:

• RGB backlight support (temp thresholds, etc)
• Automatic dial background image generation and setting(to allow for when a dial page changes, the label on the dial changes)
• Multi-page support
• Software dial hiding (so one could hook another application into a specific dial)

Would be neat to just install the "server" software and check a box in AIDA64 to use them like the many other things supported. It's just HTTP GET requests to a web server. This would allow dials to be used over the network as well.

The hardest part is the price of the dials themselves. A starter kit (3 dials and a hub) is just under $200 USD shipped if you're interested.

An intriguing project indeed.  We've ordered a VU1 Starter Kit in order to evaluate the product.  The LCD facility of AIDA64 would have to be altered and improved considerably to implement support for VU1 though, so please give us a few weeks to work on this.  Meanwhile we'd love to see how many other users would be interested in VU meter support, and whether there're alternative hardware solutions.

[kirtangl]

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

[Fiery]

6 hours ago, kirtangl said:

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

Yes, we've already received the displays and already started to lay the necessary foundations to implement support for them.  So stay tuned ... 😉 

[kirtangl]

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.