LcdDisplay

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LcdDisplay allows you to control a Hitachi HD44780-compatible Liquid-crystal display (LCD) in Elixir.

For the specification of the HD44780 LCD, please refer to the HD44780 data sheet.

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Installation

You can install LcdDisplay by adding lcd_display to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do

  [

    {:lcd_display, "~> 0.1.0"}

  ]

end

Usage

As an example, if you want to control a Hitachi HD44780 type display through the 8-bit I/O expander PCF8574, you can use LcdDisplay.HD44780.PCF8574 module as a display driver.

Start an LCD driver and get a PID

driver_module = LcdDisplay.HD44780.PCF8574



driver_config = %{

  display_name: "display 1", # the identifier

  i2c_bus: "i2c-1",          # I2C bus name

  i2c_address: 0x27,         # 7-bit address

  rows: 2,                   # the number of display rows

  cols: 16,                  # the number of display columns

  font_size: "5x8"           # "5x10" or "5x8"

}



pid = LcdDisplay.start_display(driver_module, driver_config)

Run commands

Please refer to the LcdDisplay.HD44780.Driver documentation for supported display commands.

LcdDisplay.execute(pid, {:print, "Hello world"})

LcdDisplay.execute(pid, :clear)

Driver modules

Parallel I/O

When you connect an LCD standalone directly to the GPIO pins on your target device, the LcdDisplay.HD44780.GPIO driver module is useful.

Here are some relevant Adafruit products:

Serial I/O

When you connect an LCD through an I/O expander, one of the following driver modules can be used.

Different products out there use different I/O expanders, so please be aware of which I/O expander you are using if you use something like an I2C backpack. Also the pin assignment between the LCD and the I/O expander is important.

It is easy to make your own driver modules in case you want a custom pin assignment, a different I/O expander or some custom features.

Here are some relevant Adafruit products:

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