I did last weekend made a clean installation of LibreELEC (Krypton) v7.90.007 version.
Then immediately installed the service.lcdd-8.0.91 version.
With included HD44780 driver my LCD driver reacts as before, blinking and dimming and no text on the display.
Then tested with my previous used (100kB) HD44780 driver.
With this driver the display works without problems as before. ( My display is connected with the I2C interface, maybe that's the difference ).
if you stop kodi usingCodesystemctl stop kodi
then adjust the value it might work.
Awesome ! That did the trick 
Many thanks Irusak!
the call is done as a system call, so it's not possible to adjust this value
Regrettably, thanks for the info lrusak !
why?
Would like to continue with the value of the previous installation so I can see how long I used my Raspberry.
I did a clean LibreELEC v7.90.007 install.
Is it possible to restore / change the "system total uptime" so I can restore it to the value of the previous installation?
Have tried to modify the value in guisettings.xml but after a reboot the adjusted value disappeared.
Hello Awiouy,
I installed the Service.lcdd-8.0.90 version.
Everything works the same for me with this version.
But when i use the default hd44780 driver (in /storage/.kodi/addons/http://service.lcdd/lib/lcdproc/) in LCDd.conf my display also starts blinking and dimming.
With the HD44780 driver that I previously used, the display works perfectly.
A difference that I noticed:
The HD44780 driver which comes with service.lcdd-8.0.90 is 65.2kB, my previous HD44780 driver is 100 kB.
I now have the XBMC lcdproc enabled and have system/menu information on my LCD.
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When I now use the original driver path ( /storage/.kodi/addons/http://service.lcdd/lib/lcdproc/) in the LCDd.conf file and reboot the display starts blinking and dimming and there is no information on the screen.
Is the HD44780 driver in the lcdproc directory possible, the older HD44780 version?
Have changed the following settings in the original service.lcdd-8.0.100 LCDd.conf file:
#DriverPath=/storage/.kodi/addons/http://service.lcdd/lib/lcdproc/
DriverPath=/storage/.config/raspdrivers/
#Driver=curses
Driver=hd44780
# Select what type of connection. See documentation for availabe types.
#ConnectionType=4bit
ConnectionType=i2c
# I/O address of the LPT port. Usual values are: 0x278, 0x378 and 0x3BC.
# For I2C connections this sets the slave address (usually 0x20).
#Port=0x378
Port=0x27
# Device of the serial, I2C, or SPI interface [default: /dev/lcd]
#Device=/dev/ttyS0
Device=/dev/i2c-1
With this settings the display shows the hello message and when shutdown the goodbye message, but no system / menu info.
LibreELEC>Services>LCD/VFD Driver=none
LCDproc addon add-ons/my add-ons/service/lcdproc=hd44780
Can you try running the script manually? Then post any output that it has.Code/storage/.kodi/addons/service.lcdd/bin/lcdd.start
When i start the script manually this is the output:
LCDd 0.5dev, LCDproc Protocol 0.3
Part of the LCDproc suite
Copyright (C) 1998-2014 William Ferrell, Selene Scriven
and many other contributors
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
hd44780: cannot get IO-permission for 0x378: No such device
Driver [hd44780] init failed, return code -1
Could not load driver hd44780
There is no output driver
Critical error while initializing, abort.
When i copy the old LCDd.conf to /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/http://service.lcdd/LCDd.conf, reboot and start the script manually this is the output:
LCDd version 0.5dev starting
Using Configuration File: /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/http://service.lcdd/LCDd.conf
LCDd 0.5dev, LCDproc Protocol 0.3
Part of the LCDproc suite
Copyright (C) 1998-2014 William Ferrell, Selene Scriven
and many other contributors
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
sock_create_inet_socket: cannot bind to port 13666 at address 127.0.0.1 - Address already in use
sock_init: error creating socket - Address already in use
Critical error while initializing, abort.
With this LCDd.conf and a reboot the display shows the hello message and when shutdown the goodbye message, but no system / menu info.
As i write in my first post
- LibreELEC settings add-on > Service panel LCD Driver = none
- OLD LCDproc add-on is deactivated
- NEW LCDproc add-on setting = HD44780
have the same settings. The display does not work for me.
when I use the command: "systemctl status service.lcdd.service | pastebinit" the url is: MFXJ
● service.lcdd.service - LCDProc
Loaded: loaded (/storage/.kodi/addons/http://service.lcdd/system.d/service.lcdd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: start-limit-hit) since Wed 2016-10-19 16:51:08 CEST; 6min ago
Process: 793 ExecStart=/bin/sh /storage/.kodi/addons/http://service.lcdd/bin/lcdd.start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 793 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Oct 19 16:51:03 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 19 16:51:03 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Service hold-off time over, scheduling restart.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Stopped LCDProc.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Start request repeated too quickly.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: Failed to start LCDProc.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Unit entered failed state.
Oct 19 16:51:08 LibreELEC systemd[1]: service.lcdd.service: Failed with result 'start-limit-hit'.
