Multipurpose plugin for the Logitech G15 keyboard. Small (78kb) and fast executable, doesn't require anything else except the TeamSpeak2 DLL (which is included). If you don't need TS2, you can delete TSRemote.DLL.





Download: here



Features:

• Customizable display of weekday, date and time.
• Shows number of unread mails as icons (max 5) (if your mail client supports it)
• Displays CPU usage (supports up to four CPU's, both Intel and AMD).
• Shows the memory load.
• Shows inbound (top) and outbound (bottom) network traffic volume
• Shows network inbound/outbound network load over the last ten seconds, and/or total data sent and received.
• World clock with daylight savings support and user selectable time zones
• Speaker switcher, switch between speakers and headphones with a click
• Displays sound volume and speakers muted status
• Stopwatch with lap time (click to start/lap, long-click to reset/stop)
• Detects unresponsive programs and allows you to kill them
• TeamSpeak2 integration: Shows speakers, player count (channel with large font, server with small font), arriving and leaving players, mic mute status, self speaking status, channel changes. Click to mute/unmute mic. Long-click to show who's in the active channel.
• WinAMP integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.
• Foobar2000: supports the WinAMP spam component.
• FRAPS integration: Shows the current FPS.
• SpeedFan integration: Shows user selectable values from SpeedFan (temperatures, fan speeds, voltages).
• iTunes integration: Shows new song name when song changes. Shows remaining play time and average bitrate. Click to re-display current song.

There's currently no installer; just extract the files anywhere you like and double-click the LCDSirReal.exe file to start the plugin. You'll want to review the contents of lcdsirreal.txt, the configuration file. Double-click it to open it in a text editor such as notepad.

Each of the G15 soft buttons corresponds to one 'slot' in the plugin where you can select which 'module' to show. You can have more than one module listed for a slot, and the first one to have anything to show will be used. You can force switch between modules using CTRL+softbutton.

Modules:

• CLK World clock with daylight savings time support and many time zones. Click to switch time zone.
• STW Stopwatch. Click to start/lap. Long-click to stop/reset.
• SPK Speaker switcher. Click to switch between two speaker settings, for example 5.1 and headphones. (Doesn't work under Vista.)
• NET Net history. Shows the last few seconds network load (in or out) or the total amount of data passed. Click to change display mode.
• AMP WinAMP integration. Shows average bitrate and time remaining. Click to re-display current song title.
• TS2 TeamSpeak2 integration. Shows number of players on server (small font) and in the current channel (large font). Shows mic status (mute, idle, speaking). Shows current speakers, players entering and leaving the server and more. Click to mute/unmute mic. Long-click to show who's in the current channel.
• FPS FRAPS integration. Shows the current FPS, if it is nonzero. Note that FRAPS must be minimized or it won't provide FPS counts.
• FAN SpeedFan integration. Show selected value. Click to change value to display. Long-click to enable/disable auto-cycle of display.
• TUN iTunes integration. Shows average bitrate and time remaining. Click to re-display current song title.
• RIP Detects unresponsive programs. When detected, shows start of window title. Click to show entire window title. Long-click to terminate the program.

Known problems:

• Some G15 keyboards are sensitive to ESD (electrostatic discharges). Should the LCD display go blank and the LCD buttons become unresponsive, try stopping LCDMon.exe, the Logitech LCD monitor application (you can use CTRL+mediastopbutton to do this). LCDSirReal will detect that it's no longer running and start it again. Remove peripherals connected to the keyboard's USB ports. Consider contacting Logitech for a replacement keyboard.
• The unread mail indicator (both in LCDSirReal and Logitech's bundled plugin) may show an incorrect number of unread mails. This is a problem with the mail client. Microsoft Outlook is known to be very buggy. Try Mozilla Thunderbird. Also, see this link.
• The TeamSpeak2 application can under stress break down with regard to it's IPC (interprocess communications) system. If this happens, LCDSirReal will show 'WAIT' in the TS2 slot. LCDSirReal will keep trying to reconnect indefinately. To fix it immediately, restart the TeamSpeak2 application.
• Microsoft Vista does not provide a way for a third-party programs to change the speaker configuration; therefore the SPK module is limited in functionality under Vista. In addition, the new sound API provided by Microsoft is very CPU intensive, so the SPK module will only update once a second under Vista to save CPU cycles.
• It should be noted that none of the above problems are caused by LCDSirReal; I'm just tired of answering questions regarding these issues in forums.
• It may or may not work on Windows 2000 and below. Note that the Logitech G15 software itself lists Windows XP as a requirement.

What others say:

• http://icrontic.com/articles/sirreal_g15_plugin
• http://unitstep.net/blog/2007/10/16/sirrea...oull-ever-need/

Moderation: Topic title changed to avoid confusion; this is not a foobar2000 component.

nice work sirreal... i like your exe... works nicely... wish it would have the song name on all the time or at least configurable...

how do we use it???

I havent got around to packing into a nice installer. For now, just unzip the two files (my .exe and the teamspeak DLL) anywhere you like and double click the LCDSirReal.exe. If you don't use Teamspeak, you can delete the DLL.





Thanks. 90k not too big?
Yah, well, it's a work-in-progress. It doesn't have any sort of configurability yet. I'm thinking I'll have the speakers button long-click show the current playing again. I don't think I'll have it show the song constantly.

And why should you? I just hate this Windows habbit of creating a 1mb installer just for extracting and copying a 100kb file to a custom location


I just did that... nothing happens... maybe it is because I don't have that 'G15' stuff (and never heard of it )

Oops. Edited OP to reflect that this is a plugin for the Logitech G15 keyboard.

Any plans to include support for the MX5000 keyboard?

Logitech does not provide an SDK for the MX5000, so that can't be done. Besides, the LCD on the MX5000 doesn't look like it's the same dimensions, so it would have required a massive rewrite and a separate application.

Dang. Oh well, thanks

Changes in v1.2:

• If Teamspeak isn't running, shows WinAMP play time and average bitrate, and button 4 will re-display the current song title.
• Allow the user to choose date and time formatting.
• Compatible with the WinAMP spam plugin for Foobar2000: http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index....showtopic=42941
• In TS2 current channel users list, users that are Away or Muted are shown in parenthesis.
• Log spam-control; prevents WinAMP/Foobar2K from clogging up the log queue.
• Allow user to select time zones for world clock
• FIX: Don't attempt to restart LCDMon.exe if Windows is shutting down.

Very nice.
I don't understand how to use Media keys.
The Mute, Forward, Rewind, Stop, Play, Pause, Vol+/- are inactives...
I use only Foobar2000, currently 9.4.4.

Could you help please


Also, the part of your plugin :
"# Select what modules should be shown in which slot. You can list more than
# one module per slot, and the first one that has data to display will
# be shown. To see any others, hold down CTRL while clicking the slot button
# to cycle the selected module."

Isn't working.
Indeed, when i hold down CTRL while cliking, i can't see others module, its just happen nothing for me.

Been a while since I updated this thread...

Changes in v2.0:

• FIX: Speaker switch could fail to switch on some setups.
• Module switching: Use CTRL+softbutton to change module in a slot.
• User-selectable module display.
• Allow both speaker setups to be user selectable.
• Added FPS module; FRAPS integration.
• Added NET module; shows network statistics.

Changes in v2.1:

• Changed FRAPS runtime checking to be less intrusive.
• Added errors.txt error logging file.
• Not detecting LCDMon.exe as running still allows attempt to use LCD.
• If mail checking isn't available in the OS (Win2K and lower), don't use it.
• Added 'include' command in lcdsirreal.txt
• Changed TS2 interface thread priority class from IDLE to LOWEST.

Changes in v2.2:

• Don't log the most common TS2 communication errors; fills up log.
• Tweaked thread synchronization method for LCD updates.
• Added more error messages around LCDMon.exe launching.
• One single processor machines, keep the TS2 interface thread at normal priority.
• If net I/O initialization failed, retry at intervals.

Changes in v2.3:

• Calculate daylight savings time status on initialization.
• Immediately terminate LCDSirReal when system shutdown detected.
• Use alternate method of detecting PID's on Windows XP and above.
• Tweaked TS2 mutex timeout.
• Removed even more redundant TS2 errors from the log.
• Improved shutdown sequence handling.

Changes in v2.4:

• Added startup mode selection to slot modules.
• Added support for SpeedFan.
• Fixed the 'repeating speaker' TS2 display bug.
• Added support for iTunes. See notes below!
• Rewrote net statistics to use TDI instead of WMI (less CPU usage, less memory footprint)

Changes in v2.5:

• Refresh list of active network interfaces every two seconds
• RIP module: Allow termination of unresponsive programs
• Mail indicator for more than six emails shown as "(icon)x(number)"
• Fixed network I/O numbers at transfer speeds exceeding 4MB/sec

Changes in v2.6:

• Recognizes Logitech 1.03+ software installation paths
• Reduced CPU usage for TS2 module
• Fixed WinAMP module crash on long song names
• NET works in Vista (Fallback to NDIS 6 for network data if TDI fails)
• Generate GUI calls if FRAPS is started after LCDSirReal, to allow it to patch itself into LCDSirReal's process
• World Clock now works in Vista (Use text indices)
• Volume bar and mute state works in Vista (MS removed old API's)

NOTE: Microsoft Vista does not provide any means for a third-party program to change the speaker configuration. As a result, the SPK module is limited to showing the volume and mute state. Also, the new Vista sound API's are very CPU intensive, so to save CPU cycles the SPK module will only update once per second.