System sound volume

[limbo]

Is there any way to know when the volume is muted (rather than simply set to 0)? Would be cool to have a mute icon.

Use my search and replace plugin!
Take a look here: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=733

[HartleyC]

Is there any way to know when the volume is muted (rather than simply set to 0)? Would be cool to have a mute icon.

Use my search and replace plugin!
Take a look here: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=733

Yes, that's what I had in mind. However I need to know when the volume is muted in the first place - volume 0 and volume muted are different values (I think).

[pepepepe]

I have problems with Vista, it only changes the volume of the application, but it doesn't change the system volume.
Any ideas?

[Alzer]

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty new to LCD Smartie but I already love it. It lets me do exactly what I want with my LCD. Until recently I was looking for a way to show my system volume on the LCD and now I seem to have found it.

I got really excited and wanted to try it out so I click the link and... is met by the not so wonderful "Server not found" page.

Therefore, I ask anyone to make this plugin available for me to download.

Thanks in advance

//A

[limbo]

Hey everyone,

I'm pretty new to LCD Smartie but I already love it. It lets me do exactly what I want with my LCD. Until recently I was looking for a way to show my system volume on the LCD and now I seem to have found it.

I got really excited and wanted to try it out so I click the link and... is met by the not so wonderful "Server not found" page.

Therefore, I ask anyone to make this plugin available for me to download.

Thanks in advance

//A

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EDIT: Alzer use this with the tinybar plugin (download it from my site) you gonna love it!

[Alzer]

Say hello to your lucky star!
Log in and download it from here!


EDIT: Alzer use this with the tinybar plugin (download it from my site) you gonna love it!

Thanks man! The download worked perfectly but I can't get it to work. It just says "[Dll: Can not load plugin]".

Maybe I did something wrong?

Let me retrace my steps:

1) Downloaded the .zip file
2) Placed the volume.dll in the LCD Smartie\plugins folder
3) Copied and pasted "Volume $dll(volume,1,,)" without the qoutes into one of the screens

I am using LCD Smartie 5.4 if that's any help.

//A


EDIT:

Missing .NET Framework and a missing .dll was the cause of the problem.

Everything works fine now. Thanks for all the help!

//A

[ralphie]

Cool plugin. I gotta try this tonight.

I have a more of a general question, is it possible to have this plugin display on the screen for only a few seconds while the volume is being changed? and then have the screen revert back to whatever else it was displaying.

This is probably more of a LCD Smartie question, than for this plugin.

I have updated the plugin so function5 returns 1 if the volume has changed and 0 if it hasn't.

So add an action like this in your smartie.ini

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Action03Variable=$dll(volume,5,1,1)
Action03Condition=2
Action03ConditionValue=1
Action03Action=GotoScreen(15)

Now you can specify what you whant to show when the volume changes on Screen 15.

[erlis]

I don't have a LCD tor run LCD-smartie for anymore so I'm very unactive here.


I do recal to use screen 15 for volume display, so my action 3 waits for the volume to change and then displays the volume.

[Jake of All Trades]

Is there a way to get this to display Line In, Microphone, etc. volume? Thanks!

[EvylRat]

EDIT: No need to to this anymore thanks to the tiny bar plugin! http://www.lansley.co.uk/forum/phpBB2/v ... .php?t=561
I'll leave this post here in case it gives others ideas.



I've created a 'signal strength' type triangle to show my system volume in one charactor space.

Here's what it looks like when animated. In reality, it just moves up and down when I press my volume buttons.


My Dell multimedia keyboard has volume buttons on it. When pressed they raise and lower the system volume by exactly 4%. So, by using sandr.dll to detect volumes of 0%, 4%, 8%... etc. I can then have it replace those numerical percentages with a custom character.

Here's the code I'm using in smartie. Note that the volume is shown as +volwithleadingzero+.

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$dll(sandr,1,+$dll(volume,4,,)+,)$Chr(136)


Here's the omit.ini file I'm using with sandr.dll. The string "16" is contained in $CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16) so I had to put in a work around to stop 16 being replaced in the customchar when the volume was at 16%. I chose to wrap my volumes with + symbols.

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[Search1]
1=+00+
2=+04+
3=+08+
4=+12+
5=+16+
6=+20+
7=+24+
8=+28+
9=+32+
10=+36+
11=+40+
12=+44+
13=+48+
14=+52+
15=+56+
16=+60+
17=+64+
18=
19=
20=


[Replace1]
1=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
2=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0)
3=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,16)
4=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,24,16)
5=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,0,24,16)
6=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,24,24,16)
7=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,0,24,24,16)
8=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,28,24,24,16)
9=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,0,28,24,24,16)
10=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,28,28,24,24,16)
11=$CustomChar(8,0,0,0,28,28,24,24,16)
12=$CustomChar(8,0,0,30,28,28,24,24,16)
13=$CustomChar(8,0,0,30,28,28,24,24,16)
14=$CustomChar(8,0,30,30,28,28,24,24,16)
15=$CustomChar(8,0,30,30,28,28,24,24,16)
16=$CustomChar(8,31,30,30,28,28,24,24,16)
17=$CustomChar(8,31,30,30,28,28,24,24,16)
18=
19=
20=


It works well, but stops working if the volume goes to a value I'm not replacing, like 25%. That will only happen if I change the volume using something other than my keyboard.
Is there a rounding function in smartie I can use to round the volume %s to the nearest 5% say?

Adapt the one I've done for my imon,
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1635
I guess the code could be really tidied up like you've done yours, using the sandr.dll plugin.
I wish the warnif was more like an "IF... ELSE..."

[onlinespending]

I know erlis is out of the game, but I figured I'd ask since he was nice enough to respond to the iTunes2 thread. I have tried volume.dll with Windows 7 and for some reason the value I also get is 100. This is regardless of what the volume level is at in reality. Not sure if you'd be willing to take a look at volume.dll on a Windows 7 machine. Thanks.

[cybergeek]

It shows up but when I turn my vol down it stays at 100%

[SiEM]

Can someone upload update version of volume.dll?

Thanks!

[Valve]

Hi. volume.dll needed!!!