Hi i am new to the forums! so i am quite a newbie here but i hope you can help. i found a big huge lot of EZIO-100 LCD's which fit right in the 3.5 inch bay, for a realllly cheap price. i have it plugged in and powered up, have it hooked up to a serial ribbon connected to an external serial cable for testing, but i have no programming knowledge and have not been able to find a suitable driver for this device. wondering if anyone could help me out here. And if interested i could possibly get together a group buy for these lcds depending on how many are left. i believe they were working pulls from some network appliance device. 4 utility buttons and 2x16
here is a link to the product site with the PDF info sheet. Thanks!
http://www.portwell.com/products/detail ... -100#order
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EZIO-100 2x16 display plugin
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Re: EZIO-100 2x16 display plugin
Going by the datasheet/manual at http://71.131.159.28/CA_Manual/EZIO/EZIO-FINAL.PDF (hope I have found the right model) it's a serial HD44780 type communication protocol.
You can try the "seetron" driver (use the LCD protocol) which should be one of the available displays on a normal Smartie installation. I think the display commands should be compatible but you won't get the button functionality. You should at least see something (even if it's garbage) on the display. It looks like your LCD operates at 2400 baud.
As for writing a dedicated display driver, you either need to program this yourself (you can use one of the existing drivers as a template) or hope that someone will come up with a driver. That doesn't usually happen unless there are enough people using the display though...
You can try the "seetron" driver (use the LCD protocol) which should be one of the available displays on a normal Smartie installation. I think the display commands should be compatible but you won't get the button functionality. You should at least see something (even if it's garbage) on the display. It looks like your LCD operates at 2400 baud.
As for writing a dedicated display driver, you either need to program this yourself (you can use one of the existing drivers as a template) or hope that someone will come up with a driver. That doesn't usually happen unless there are enough people using the display though...