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4X20 PicoLCD request
Posted: December 11th, 2008, 5:07 am
by apineda
Hi,
Any plans to support the USB-LCD-4X20 picoLCD at:
www.mini-cox.com?
P.S. I have one and would be willing to test.
Posted: December 11th, 2008, 8:20 am
by GizmoTheGreen
you mean
www.mini-box.com dont you?
or you thought too much of cox (cocks) while writing? i found it hilarious, lol
Posted: December 11th, 2008, 3:15 pm
by caesar
There is a plugin already available here:
http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1708
It's a big forum but "Search" is a good and trusty friend
PS: Gizmo, even if it's funny, please keep it decent! It's a tech forum, not a poultry farm...

Posted: December 12th, 2008, 5:54 am
by apineda
Thanks, I tried that display driver but I could not get it to work. It did not give me any errors, it just didn't connect with the device. It may not be the driver though, let me debug some more.
I appreciate the quick response and will post my findings.
Regards,
Andy
Posted: December 12th, 2008, 1:46 pm
by GizmoTheGreen
sorry caesar, couldnt help myeslf, let him edit his post for fix it and you can remove mine if you want to, aha xD
apineda, good luck hope you can get it to work

Posted: March 22nd, 2009, 8:32 am
by ekkat
Hi im having problem with this driver, it doesn't work on vista x64 or windows 7 x64. Has anyone found any drivers that will work.
Posted: March 22nd, 2009, 10:07 pm
by caesar
You mean that the lcd is not recognized by vista 64? Then we cannot help you with that. Try the manufacturer's website.
Posted: March 23rd, 2009, 6:10 am
by ekkat
no i mean i think this driver was made for the old 20x2 picolcd, i have the newer 20x4 usb version.
Posted: March 26th, 2009, 4:04 pm
by ekkat
i just received an email from mini-box and they said "we do not have 64bit drivers at this time" which basicly means ur on ur own
i just got this display off ebay for 20 thinking i got a good deal now i understand why no one bidded on it.
does anyone have any solutions lol
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 10:06 am
by ekkat
anyone found any solutions? i would really love to be able to use this thing with my HTPC
Posted: April 20th, 2009, 5:21 pm
by caesar
the only solution i see is for you to use either win xp or linux.
i really don't see them having a signed driver for vista...
Posted: April 25th, 2009, 10:16 pm
by ekkat
At
http://www.picolcd.com/drivers/
They have a 32 bit driver for vista and a 32bit driver for windows xp.
They real interesting thing is they included a test program that includes the Source Codes
I tried this test program on my Windows 7 64bit and the program works fines, im able to get it to display text and interact with the lcd but thats about it.
Since they included the source code would it be possible to somehow make lcd smartie drivers out of them
Posted: April 27th, 2009, 6:34 pm
by caesar
I'll try to have a look at it in a week or two, please post the links to the test program.
Posted: April 27th, 2009, 11:34 pm
by ekkat
thank you soo much for the help
here is the program and source code
http://resources.mini-box.com/online/pi ... 20_SRC.zip
Posted: May 21st, 2009, 5:02 am
by ekkat
any luck? or is the src program completely useless?
Posted: May 29th, 2009, 8:59 pm
by caesar
Didn't have time yet, sorry.
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 3:09 pm
by ekkat
any progress?
Posted: July 3rd, 2009, 10:47 pm
by caesar
Looked at it, still nauseated by the code.
All I can say right now is that it would be much easier to have the codes that the client sends to pico deamon and use them
Are the codes available? Then I could easily change the already existing pico driver to incorporate the new codes.
Have you tried it to see if it works somewhat?
Re: 4X20 PicoLCD request
Posted: September 23rd, 2009, 9:11 pm
by ekkat
lol i don't know anything about coding so i think im just going to order a new display. Thank you very much for giving it a try.