Streamdeck neo: utilise lcd strip

[Julusian]

Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?

• I believe this to be a feature for companion, not a module

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the feature

The first implementation of support for the neo does not make use of the lcd strip.

It needs some thought on how the two companion buttons it spans should be drawn to it

Usecases

No response

[dnmeid]

I guess it still is the single screen of the original Streamdeck under it. So what is the resolution of the strip? Half a button height?
To start with something I'd probably say: left half triggers one button and right half triggers one button. Each area shows the top part of one button, so we can show the topbar if people like it. And when you design a button for the strip, you just have to make sure your text or whatever is top aligned and small enough.
In long term I'd see the principles of #2387 apply just like for the other LCD strips.

[Julusian]

Its 248x58, and does not support presses or any interaction.

I am tempted to do similarly to the plus, and scale and draw the 2 buttons it spans. but of course that won't give the best look, it will be using less than half of the width.

But yes long term something from #2387 can be done, but I guess we arent in a place to do that yet

[adingess]

It would be great to have an OSC address you could send a text string to to be rendered out (Countdown clock from a media server), or just have a way to make it a clock or assign a name or station name to it (text block) . Beyond that, I'm not sure If I could use it for anything else.
Also having the ability to change the LED color of the 2 bottom buttons would be great as well.

[Julusian]

Also having the ability to change the LED color of the 2 bottom buttons would be great as well.

This was explained on slack, this is specifically referring to when those buttons contain a page up/down button, as they always have a black background resulting in the buttons being left dark. This is a separate thing to look into.

It would be great to have an OSC address you could send a text string to to be rendered out

The challenge here becomes whether that will be enough or will it need to be able to vary depending on which page is being viewed. And what about users who have multiple streamdecks, they will likely want each one to show something different.

There is also the question of how that should work when connected through satellite.

And looking forward, how would we fix things up for users once this is fed from the grid? We would have to leave this special osc address, but then what should it be doing to affect the display as intended.

This doesn't mean we shouldn't do this, but there is a large question of whether it is a good idea to do something quick and easy, which would either result in a lot more effort to link up to the full solution, or will break users workflows when the full solution is done (breaking it may not be that bad considering the alternative is to not do anything until the full solution)