You're not going to make me switch from DMD Extender are you!? This project is exciting. I say go for it! I'd be willing to test it out on a DE Jurassic Park.

By the way, you should check out the DMD Extender project by Dr Pinball. He's developed a daughter-board that allows the DMD signal cable to pass-through a Raspberry Pi. I wonder if your software could utilize his hardware.

For anyone asking about using this in conjunction with ColorDMD, in general I don't see how that would be desirable... It seems to me like you could just not have a ColorDMD and replace the DMD with the LCD that gets its image from the Raspberry Pi, similar to how DMD Extender does it.

However, if you had a game with a ColorDMD, I'd bet that while SmartDMD would not be able to affect the colors displayed on a ColorDMD, it could probably still take the same signal from the game that the ColorDMD takes, and put it on an external monitor and have the same functions on the external monitor that it would have if the original DMD was present. You're just not going to get to a point where the external monitor would be showing the ColorDMD colorization, since it would be getting colorized through a different process and have to have its own colorization.

That's the only option. Even ColorDMD uses a screen that is much taller than the original DMD. There aren't LCDs in the exact size.

I'm curious why this would be desirable. Can't you just drive your display directly from the computer? Aren't you the Mocean from the pinbalcontrollers forum working on a T2 where you're doing just that?

I guess you could do something like that. Supposing you found an LCD that was the right size and shape for what you want, I would think the DMD image would end up being as wide as the LCD, so if you have a huge LCD, then the DMD will be huge. If I'm recalling correctly, there aren't options for sizing the DMD image independently of the background image.

Well, you would know!

I'd be curious to see a setup like that.

So get out of this thread... Why even bother posting in it?

Is full on colorization with SmartDMD coming for Whitestar? I could see the 4 color palettes like with DE working, but full on colorization? It would be awesome, but can it work similar to how the SAM stuff is being handled?