Manual
 

Installation

Download the MCE Display setup and run it to install the application.
Once you've setup MCE Display, you have to restart your PC!

Note:
MCE Display only works with displays built by CrystalFontz!

Display status information

Every time you start MCE, the LCD display will start showing the MCE status. It will look like this:

1. At the left of the first line of the display the type of media being played (music, video, TV, TV recording, CD, DVD, etc.) is shown
2. At the right of the first line of the display the playing status (play, paused, stopped, fast forwarding, rewinding, etc.) is shown
3. The second and third line of the display show information about the media being played, e.g. the name of the song and the name of the performing artist
4. The fourth line of the display shows a counter and a horizontal bar that indicate the current position in the media being played

Display settings

Once you've setup MCE Display, you can change its settings from within MCE.

Go to the option "More Programs" on the start page of MCE:

And select the option "LCD Settings" on the programs page:

Now the following window will open up:

The backlight and contrast settings can be changed by pressing the "arrow left" and "arrow right" buttons on your MCE remote control.
You can navigate between the sliders and buttons by using the "arrow down" and "arrow up" buttons.

By selecting the "Settings" button of this window, you can specify a number of technical settings for your LCD display:

You can specify:

• The (physical or virtual) COM port to which the LCD display is connected
• The baudrate for the communication between the PC and the LCD display
• The number of rows your LCD display can show
• The number of columns your LCD display can show