[Lcdproc] HD44780 serial?

[Christian Kruft]

Matteo Pillon schrieb:

Thank you. I think I could use the source lcdserializer as "guide".

>On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Christian Kruft wrote:
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>>is there a way to connect a HD44780 series LCD to the serial port 
>>/dev/ttyS0? I would use the microcontroller PIC16F873 (programming in 
>>assembler) as converter connected to the serial port with a MAX232. In 
>>docs I found the driver pic-an-lcd for HD44780. Google didn't find much 
>>information about this module. Does anybody know how it works? I need 
>>additional information about the data on the serial port, the order and 
>>timings.
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>I'm working on an unified serial driver for LCDproc.
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>It currently supports pic-an-lcd, lcdserializer (a pic-based project,
>assembly sources are available) and LoS-panel (currently in
>development, with support for backlight switching and keypad, based on
>atmel avr, this is the best interface available).
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>You'll find references to these interfaces, details about the
>driver, as well as patches, here:
>  http://wiki.ilc.pd.it/ilc_wiki/LcdprocSerial
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>I wrote some documentation on lcdserializer (support is included in
>lcdproc-0.5), but it's not available on the website, you can find it
>in the docs directory of the source tree. (Peter, why it's not on the
>website? A lot of drivers lack documentation on
>http://lcdproc.sourceforge.net/docs/current-user-html/).
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>Bye.
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