Display important stats in separate window or on your smartphone. (How To!)

Heya,

I heard about Logitech G15 and G19 keyboards already. They have a funky display built in, that shows stats and info about your game while playing.

Now today, while I was adding some input to a facebook discussion, that Id like to SEE the "% left" on my current item used.
Roni posted that his Logitech G19 Keyboard does indeed display various stats/values from Entropia, as Entropia does natively support the G19 keyboard.

That would be : (taken form a 2012 thread on "the other forum")

- Health both in absolute numbers with 0.1 accuracy, as well as the % in brackets
- Tool currently equipped
- Condition of the tool equipped in % with 0.001% accuracy
- Ammo for equipped tool (uses left) + type
- Profession involved in equipped tool

As MindArk never ever announced this neat feature, they either forgot about it, or werent aware it was actually working. (?)
Various people found out about the G19 support somewhere in early 2012...and it then got forgottten it seems

Now I wondered if would be possible to read out the data that Entropia sends to the LCD display, as it is a "Logitech DLL API" that can be "wrapped into your code" to send data to the keyboards LCD display. This way people wouldnt even need the 100$+ G19 keyboard.

The answer was already given in the thread on "the other forum". Logitech provided an "LCD Panel Emulator" that can be used without beeing the owner of a LCD Keyboard and it will display the provided informations listed above in a separate window next to Entropia. If you play in windowed mode.

You just need to download the :

Logitech GamePanel Manager

http://support.logitech.com/product/g19-keyboard-for-gaming

and install it.



Then you get a new symbol in your system tray.


Hold CTRL+SHIFT and right-click it. Select "LCD-Emulator"


You get this new window where you have to create a new Color LCD.



There you select Entropia (if already started) with the mouse clicking the buttons
inside the emulator window and press OK.



Voila. (font ugly)



Im still experimenting on how to get the font "more clear" and using the software http://www.xtrabuttons.com/ to leave the LCD stats window on top of Entropia, even if you are in fullscreen mode.

p.s.
You can also use an external display or even your android smarpthone, to display these informations.
So its just like having a G19 keyboard. ;p

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SnowLeopard from "other forum" said in (2012/2013)
I've been using my elcheapo tablet with a VNC app for android and it's great!
I already had my TV hooked up as a secondary monitor, but it isn't practical to use while playing sinceI'd have to turn my head more than 90 degrees to see it. The solution is to put the Logitech LCD emulator on the TV anyway and use VNCon the android device (which fits nicely just below my monitor). The effect is exactly the same as having a G19.

I'm using TightVNC. In the Extra Ports tab, I'm using "5901:640x480+1920+0" which tells VNC only display a small portion of the secondary monitor.
On the android device, I'm using PocketCloud Remote Desktop.

So, big thanks to Roni for kicking this dead horse again and thanks to SnowLeopard for additonal "external display" infos.

Enjoy.

 

You using Windows 7 or 8 ? Did you download the version from my link ?

Is your font clearly visible ?
I havent yet tried to use the "ExtraButtons" app, so that it would be a window "inside" of Entropia...did you ?

 

I checked the combat log, but not in fight, as the othe rfrum said its not working. Probably they didnt hutn as well while lookign at it. :p

I was also trying to find out more, liek the font used in the emulator. But the official logitech support also answered its bitmaps that get sent to the display and that it could be indeed MAs "fault". :/

Ill try to have a closer view at all emualtor files with a hexeditor tomorrow.

 

reboot in 1 week

 

I got hands on Ronis "old" G19 keyboard. It should arrive next week. Not only I can delete the emulator now ;) ...but I hope to be able to work on this keyboard with a friend, beeing able to share more infos on this "display item %" somewhere else".

 

The (logitech) software involved, or the "software" inside the keyboard itself, does (somehow) "prevent" monitoring the Data exchanged between "game/app and USB port".

Cool and very interesting ;p

 

Hey Soul :)

Hence my statement in the initial post :
Voila. (font ugly)

Did you try "older" versions of the emu and/or Logitech Software package as I suggested ?