Hello, thanks for your precious informations. I got my A95X F2 display to work perfectly. It just misses 1 thing: when I turn the box off, the display is completely dark, it doesn’t show the little standby dot , is it possible to add it in some way? thank you
The driver turns off the display when CoreELEC is turned off. I don’t think it’s a good idea to change this behavior, which can cause problems with other devices using this driver.
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hi,
I tried VFD for my Tanix TX5 Pro (S905X2 with 4GB/100Mbit) with g12a_s905x2_4g.dtb and tanix-tx5-max-vfd.conf, but the display only shows “boot”.
It seems to be a simple four character display, nothing fancy.
original dtb (via dd if=/dev/dtb | gzip > /storage/downloads/dtb.img.gz while in CE): https://gofile.io/?c=XixRLS
maybe you could give me a hint how to get the display showing the 24h time?
Thank you!
edit:
is seems due to systemctl openvfd status that openvfd is not there? but the addon in installed and dmsg shows something:
http://ix.io/24Qx
cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio
gpiochip1: GPIOs 410-495, parent: platform/pinctrl@ff634480, periphs-banks:
gpio-448 ( |amlsd ) out hi
gpio-458 ( |amlsd ) in lo
gpio-474 ( |openvfd ) in hi
gpio-475 ( |openvfd ) out hi
gpio-482 ( |sdio_wifi ) out hi
gpio-483 ( |sdio_wifi ) in hi
gpio-493 ( |bt_rfkill ) out hi
gpio-495 ( |bt_rfkill ) out hi
gpiochip0: GPIOs 496-511, parent: platform/pinctrl@ff800014, aobus-banks:
gpio-498 ( |line_mute ) out hi
gpio-506 ( |openvfd ) out hi
gpio-507 ( |? ) out loI’ll take a look when I get back from work.
cat /sys/kernel/debug/gpio in Android might be helpful, in CE it serves no purpose as it uses the config in the vfd.conf file you used.
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Ok, can you try this vfd.conf?
tanix-tx5-pro-vfd.conf (1.2 KB)
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still only “boot” 
dmesg
http://ix.io/24RE
Oops, can you try this one?
tanix-tx5-pro-vfd.conf (1.2 KB)
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Ok, please try this one:
tanix-tx5-pro-vfd.conf (1.2 KB)
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WUHU! its is working.
your file wasn’t perfect, but the char order wasn’t that hard 
since I still cant upload files, that did the trick:
vfd_chars='0,4,3,2,1'
Thank you so much!
Great, I’ll add it to the repository.
So just to confirm, the above file with the change you posted works correctly?
Does the : (colon) blink?
I’m sure that there is a working vfd.conf for that box already, need to search in the x96max thread.
this is a new “x96max plus” .s905x3.
the vdf of “x96max” s905x2 I have not got it to work on “x96max plus s905x3” for my.
s905x2 X96Max x96-max-1gbit-vfd.conf not working on new X96Max + S905X3 box
That conf file should work, at least according to the screenshot above.
Please post a dmesg, maybe that will tell us why it’s not working.