Beo6 exploration (yes, including full screen icons!)

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matador
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matador
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Posted August 1, 2019 at 13:30 GMT
#2210181

Hi guys,

The recent thread about Beo 5/6 public success revives some fantasies and remind me that if I own a beautiful and functional Gold Beo6 today, it's thanks to the Beoworld community.

Just a side note: I truly and sincerely thank all the people how helped (or will) me, with gifts, knowledge or time. I won't name them again or latter, just to not clutter the topic, but be sure I know you helped me.

So, I jumped again in the Beo6 programming sorcery, just to play and to be honest, not really knowing where I want to go but also believing that if its a fail, that would just remain a dead thread like all my others, but if it work, it may bring some light to anybody looking for the same fun.

The premises:
- Beo6 in golden finish, clinicaly dead but brought to life thanks to people here. Last FW.
- CT 6.84 running on an old Thinkpad, Win XP. I'm a Mac guy, so there will be some USB key travels for graphics!

To be controlled:
- Room A: Ouverture, Samsung TV, Mac mini, Lights (Via an magic box from RevoxBeo)
- Room B (Not mandatory but for the love of the game) : BC6, Apple TV1.

Here we go.

My first goal was the display of a full screen picture on the Beo6 screen.
The test picture was that 320x160 px sized, cut into 4 107x80px  zones and 2 106x80 px zones.

After downloading each pictures and creating a virtual button in the CT, I get that preview with the expected black bars.

But was was unexpected was that when i uploaded the configuration to the remote, here is what i got:

A continuous picture. But, as you may have noticed, the picture is stretched (Not enough tall), and the below buttons have disappeared.

But no XML fiddling so far. So even if there's still work to do to find the good size combination, I find it quite encouraging.

Hope this help.

Location: Paris France

T.W.G
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T.W.G
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Posted August 2, 2019 at 07:17 GMT
#2210182

Looks promising and thank you for sharing details!

I'm curious if you can get the picture right without XML fiddling. Please keep posting here! :)

 

matador
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matador
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Posted August 2, 2019 at 10:30 GMT
#2210183

Good Morning guys,

I'm getting closer!
After some tests uploaded 12 106x49 pixels pics:

And get that display:

The columns are still offset by a pixel or so. This can be seen at each vertical third of the screen.
I superposed the original image and the geometry looks right. The question is to figure out where the anchor point for the picture is in the button.
Top left corner? Center?
Vertically, that looks ok so I believe the 49 px size can be used. Maybe reduced to a little less to lighten the byte count. Previous attempt was 44 px high and did show black lines between rows.

There is also an half millimeter wide empty black line between the left border of the screen and the start of the pictures, when on the right side the picture extend to the "bezel". 

Of course still no XML editing, all in CT. I'm also working on a Photoshop template to generates the buttons easily.

Next step will be cropping each picture pixel by pixel until all lines up perfectly without black lines in-between. But so far I'm happy as to be honest, if you dont look for it, the offset is barely noticeable. But of course that may change depending on the picture displayed.

I'll keep posted the silent mob…😁

Location: Paris France

matador
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matador
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Posted August 2, 2019 at 13:04 GMT
#2210184

So here it is!

12 buttons, no offset 🤩

The solution is a picture size of 105x49 px with one line of pixels overlapping at the bottom meaning each picture should be 105x48 px border to border and add at the bottom the first line of pixels of the button below.

No such thing for the side to side button: 105 px wide makes them just line up fine.

Let's see what we can do with this now!

Location: Paris France

matador
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matador
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Posted August 2, 2019 at 14:48 GMT
#2210185

Now the grid is quite consistent, I've started to play with layout's.

Behind each picture part there is a button, so when you touch the tv screen on the the main picture (see previous shot), the remote takes you to the TV page:

It's just an example and the design must strongly be improved but it works and opens the remote to the world of custom skins and visual selection of sources or function.

I've checked that the remote is not too much laggy with all those pictures and so far it respond well.

Location: Paris France

T.W.G
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T.W.G
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Posted August 3, 2019 at 07:22 GMT
#2210186

Nice work!

Did you design the buttons yourself? I like them.

matador
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matador
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Posted August 3, 2019 at 08:28 GMT
#2210187

Thank you TWG.

Yes I did.

Location: Paris France

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dmacri (archived2)
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Posted August 4, 2019 at 00:13 GMT
#2210188
Great work! It looks great so far.
matador
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matador
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Posted August 4, 2019 at 20:27 GMT
#2210189

Some screen designs (fitted to my use) showing some possibilities… Blurred pictures are private interiors I dont' want to expose but you get the idea…)
Shots taken before uploading, refer to previous pictures to see what they may look on the remote.

Zone Selection (notice yellow wall left/green wall right)

Room zone home (green wall)

Parlor zone home (yellow wall)

Room is a Beocenter 6 fitted with radio/Airplay/TV by an Atv
2 screens versions!

Parlor is a non B&O TV, A Mac mini with kodi on HDMI2, an Ouverture for music, and lights control.

TV & Kodi:

2 versions of Ouverture control:

And light control where pictograms correspond to actual places (like the flamingo floater you can imagine in the blurred pictures!)

In a nutshell, it makes me rethink the use of that remote because, becoming more visual it becomes more convenient.

Hope it may help or inspire someone…

 

 

 

 

 

Location: Paris France

WE
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Weebyx
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Posted August 5, 2019 at 06:48 GMT
#2210190

matador43 wrote:

Some screen designs (fitted to my use) showing some possibilities… Blurred pictures are private interiors I dont' want to expose but you get the idea…)
Shots taken before uploading, refer to previous pictures to see what they may look on the remote.

Zone Selection (notice yellow wall left/green wall right)

Room zone home (green wall)

Parlor zone home (yellow wall)

Room is a Beocenter 6 fitted with radio/Airplay/TV by an Atv
2 screens versions!

Parlor is a non B&O TV, A Mac mini with kodi on HDMI2, an Ouverture for music, and lights control.

TV & Kodi:

2 versions of Ouverture control:

And light control where pictograms correspond to actual places (like the flamingo floater you can imagine in the blurred pictures!)

In a nutshell, it makes me rethink the use of that remote because, becoming more visual it becomes more convenient.

Hope it may help or inspire someone…

 

 

 

 

 

That looks very cool :)

One thing though, do you know that it is possible to assign commands to the hard buttons for each screen ? Commands like volume and channel+/- and so on, are much more easy to use when you use the hardkeys :)

/Weebyx

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