David meldde dat er een nieuwe versie van LCD Smartie gereleased is. Versie 5.1 is uitgebracht met als belangrijkste nieuwe feature dat je nu zelf je plugins kan schrijven. Een lijst met alle features is hier te vinden. Hieronder staat een lijst met vernieuwingen ten opzichte van de vorige versie:
Changes:New things:
- I have made a checkbox for all you guys with a dial up connection. If you turn it off you don't check for a new version @ startup. This does also mean that you don't get a popup if you want to make a connection (dialup)
- Fixed Gamestats (which didn't work in 5.0)
- 20 screens instead of 10
- 10 pop3 email adresses instead of 1
- Upgraded Motherboard Monitor support (new version also works now)
- Randomize screens feature
- Winamp Status
- Network statistics (speeds, totals, errors and more)
- Weather.com support (for people in America)
- Folding@home statistics
- I made a very simple skin function so you can skin for yourself. (check the 'images' directory)
- Theme feature (which allowes you to make several 'theme's' which you can 'play' separatedly
- Resume on next line (will cut of the text that is to long for the screen, and pastes it on the next line)
- Center Text (will center the text on that line)
- Events screen where you can make your own events (i.e. skip all winamp tracks with a low bitrate, or flash your backlight 5 times when you have email
- Full support for Matrix Orbital buttons and keypads. (Also the LK404-55)
- $Counter (counts back to a specific day or time)
- $dll() (support for plugins)
- $Count() (Counts several, not limited, decimal values together)
- $Right() (alligns a small peace of text to the right)
- $Flash() (let't the text between the brackets flash)
- Lots of small and big bug fixes (i.e. the shutdown bug; Thanx supressor)