My LCD is on and lit up, but I cannot figure out how to write anything to its screen. I don't believe I'm far off, and I understand the basics of writing to your LCD, but something is amiss.
Using the specifications from the PDF handbook, I believe I have wired it up correctly, but I might very well be wrong.
Any ideas how to go about this? This particular LCD board has a microprocessor so should I download another library? I read elsewhere I would need to do that. I just have the basic LiquidCrystal library right now.
as you can tell, the lcd is up and working. just not sure where to go from here.
My LCD is on and lit up, but I cannot figure out how to write anything to its screen. I don't believe I'm far off, and I understand the basics of writing to your LCD, but something is amiss.
You need to be more precise in telling what you have done yet.
You made some connections, they are visible in that picture of yours.
But it is hard to tell what is connected to what.
So why don't you tell us what connections you made.
A quick glimpse over the datasheet tells that there are multiple ways of controlling that display (RS232, I2C and SPI).
You have to tell it what way you are going to communicate with it.
You haven't told us you did that, so did you do that and how.
The display has it's own controller, that handles serial communication and translates that to the parallel interface the real LCD controller has.
This means you cannot use any other library to control it, you need to use the datasheet to find out how to use it.
As far as i can see, most of it is in there, including some information about timing.
Displays like these pop up over here now and then, i've seen question about them before.
So you might be able to find a library taking some work off your hands.
If not, you'll have to use that datasheet.
You might want to consider building you own library and donate it to the community.
Or just use this thread, telling about your adventures with this display and educating anybody that is interested in it.
