Recently I came into the possession of a Mutant HD2400.
Almost immediately I got a commentary from the wife. She could not easily see when a program is recorded.
On the old ET and VUduo there is a red LED or picture lit up in the VFD.
The HD2400 VFD is all blue. And the blinking REC pic is also blue and very tiny. It does not stand out. Also the power button goes red, but it is very faint.
(BTW: i want to know when a recording is running, because any channel change will show up in the recording as a glitch. So when a recording is running we try to limit frequent zapping)
By the way, the complete VFD of the Mutant HD2400 looks nice, but is unreadable from where you watch TV. So it is more or less useless. (Only in standby it usable as clock)
My first attempt to resolve this was to look how I could change the info in the VFD. Only the clock and a large R for Recording is really needed.
However I could not find a way to change the information presented in the VFD.
The second attempt was to use the TV to present the information.
Since during watching TV the time on the VFD is unreadable (too small), I have the plug-in permanent clock installed, which gives me the time in the picture. (This was also installed on my old VUduo and ET-9500.
I modified the skin for the permanent clock to include the recording symbol. And stored this in /etc/enigma2/skin_user.xml
Now there is the record symbol just behind the permanent time when a recording is running.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <skin> <!-- PermanentClock --> <screen name="PermanentClockNewScreen" position="0,0" size="120,30" zPosition="-1" backgroundColor="transparent" title="%s" flags="wfNoBorder"> <widget source="global.CurrentTime" render="Label" position="1,1" size="120,30" backgroundColor="transparent" transparent="1" zPosition="0" foregroundColor="foreground" borderWidth="2" font="Regular;30" borderColor="black" valign="center" halign="center"> <convert type="ClockToText">Default</convert> </widget> <widget source="session.RecordState" render="Pixmap" pixmap="PLi-HD/buttons/rec.png" position="106,1" size="20,20" zPosition="3" alphatest="on"> <convert type="ConditionalShowHide"/> </widget> </screen> </skin>
Willy
PS: If somebody can help me with reprogramming the VFD of the HD2400, I will give that a go
Edited by doglover, 17 November 2017 - 09:28.