I used to own a Crystalfontz 5.25" drive bay LCD panel for my old PC, and it was awesome. I could completely customize the display right down to the pixel level using Windows software, and I had it set up to display temps, fan speeds, and even framerates, cycling through different "pages" on a 5 second timer, or allowing you to press buttons on the front to select a certain page.
But it stopped working, and Crystalfontz has stopped supporting their software. Has anyone got any good recommendations for a modern version of this?
I looked around on Amazon/Newegg, all I can find are some pretty disappointing looking fan controllers. I *don't* want to spend extra for fan controlling - I don't need that, I let my motherboard and BIOS curves do all the fan controlling for me - and the "LCD" display fan controllers that I found aren't actually dot matrix, they're just 4 digits of 7-segment and just one temperature, things like that. Just a nice programmable LCD that I can pick and choose what it displays from software on Windows 10.
Like this:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l2UTY4s0glc/maxresdefault.jpg
I want another one of those. Or maybe something different. If it's possible to do this with an Arduino, I can do that. If the only way is to get one of those cheap tiny 4" HDMI displays from Adafruit and just run it as a second monitor with my favourite monitoring software on Windows, I might do that too. But I'm trying to look around to see what people are doing these days, and as far as I can tell, the "drive bay LCD" is a thing of the past 🙁
But it stopped working, and Crystalfontz has stopped supporting their software. Has anyone got any good recommendations for a modern version of this?
I looked around on Amazon/Newegg, all I can find are some pretty disappointing looking fan controllers. I *don't* want to spend extra for fan controlling - I don't need that, I let my motherboard and BIOS curves do all the fan controlling for me - and the "LCD" display fan controllers that I found aren't actually dot matrix, they're just 4 digits of 7-segment and just one temperature, things like that. Just a nice programmable LCD that I can pick and choose what it displays from software on Windows 10.
Like this:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l2UTY4s0glc/maxresdefault.jpg
I want another one of those. Or maybe something different. If it's possible to do this with an Arduino, I can do that. If the only way is to get one of those cheap tiny 4" HDMI displays from Adafruit and just run it as a second monitor with my favourite monitoring software on Windows, I might do that too. But I'm trying to look around to see what people are doing these days, and as far as I can tell, the "drive bay LCD" is a thing of the past 🙁
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