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Front display control
Well, I'm not sure if there is anyone left in this forum but, on the off chance, here goes a question 😉
I have installed Debian on my old ReadyNAS Pro 6 (it has a VGA header on the motherboard, it was really easy to do once you just plugged a VGA cable into that).
Currently it has OpenMediaVault running. Beauty, no problem. I upgraded to a E7600 CPU and ordered 8GB of RAM.
The front display just says ReadyNAS and the backup light is lit all the time.
I would prefer the backup light to be off and the front display to show either a static text of my choosing or dynamically (every second or so) update with information like CPU load or space free or IOWait or whatever parameters I choose.
Does anyone have any ideas how I could possibly do that?
Thank you in advance! 😄
From a shell, try the following:
cat /etc/init.d/lcd #!/bin/bash echo "E" > /dev/ttyS1 sleep 0.5 echo "L OMV" > /dev/ttyS1Note that you do have to include the L in the last line for the text afterward to actually display - and yes, the L is inside the quoted text portion.
You can replace the OMV portion with whatever text will fit.
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Try the suggestion in post 2 here:
Ugh! My Google-Fu is terrible, it seems.
Thank you for that!
I did manage to clear the display but if I try
echo randomwords > /dev/ttyS1
nothing happens. How can I display a customised message?
I know this probably sounds incredibly noobish but this really is all very new to me.
Thank you for your help! 😄
Did you try quoting "randomwords"?
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