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Hi guys... sorry for the delay.
I've done some extensive testing on the LCD displays and Acetronics is right! I'm using a single reset at the top of the program now and clear the screen thereafter....

Actually no... with the address $94, the text starts right at the beginning of the line.

Sorry guys, got sidetracked here....

OK, here is the snippet of the code. This is essentially a display routine, which will fire up everytime one of the SPEEDUNITS varaiables changes. This could...

Yes, it will definitely be a problem unless I come up with a better way of updating the display. Right now, it displays "live data" as it happens and depending on the events, the refresh rate could...

I came across this problem in the past when programming LCD displays with 6800 and HC11 series
processors and now with the F628 chip.
I'm currently developing a program that uses a 4x20 display to...

Jerson...

while I was copying the code into the reply window, something caught my attention and I went back and modified the software. Now the darn thing is working... I can't believe I didn't...

Hi Gang...

EIther I'm doing something wrong or the 819 is playing tricks on me.
I've been trying to write a value of a certain variable into the internal EEPROM with the WRITE command (Microcode...

OK guys... got it going. Here is the snippet of the the code around the sleep command. Works like a charm.
What I've done is I gave it a delay of 3 seconds from the closure of the switch to make...

Hi guys... thank you for the info.
Yes, I'm using a 16F818 chip... not really my choice but rather something that my buddy chose for his paintball gun and I'm stuck writing the software for it.
...

OK guys, here is my dilemma. I've been at it for a while now and can't get the PIC to wake up from sleep. What am I don't wrong?
The idea here is a switch connected to PORTB.5
While the program is...

Good stuff. Thank you for running the tests for me.
Looks like I'll have to go with the original plan as you have suggested.
No worries... I simply thought there would be a different way of doing...

You know... you might have something going here. I'll explore this option as well.

Now that I think of it, the original way might work as well. I'm just worried about the size of the program...

I see your point, and it DOES make sense. :)

My only problem is that this variable will be distributed in numerous locations on the LCD screen. Had it only been one location, I wouldn't be too...

I'm having trouble trying to convert numbers into strings, joining them together and displaying on an LCD display.

Essentially what's going on is that I receive a data stream via RF and from that...

Thanks Steve...

kinda thought so too. It sure opens up more possibilities for chip selection.

Alex

Just came back from a Microchip site and found something interesting.
I was searching for a small sized chip (8 pins or so) that was capable of I2C communications... well, I found none.
Just out of...

Bruce...

that did it! The transmitter now spits out good data.
In addition to the increase in the array size, I also had to make the following change from:


EncodedData var word [5]


To:

You can, but you need to make sure you don't exceed the array boundary.

A 4 word array only goes from 0 to 3. Not 0 to 4.

I see... I had incorrectly assumed it goes from 0 to 4. Duly noted.
I...

Thank you for the reply Bruce...


EncodedData var word [4] should be EncodedData var word [5]

You mean you can't use a zero for an array pointer?


2 bytes are needed for each byte...

OK... I'm about to give birth to a cow here. I've been at this for a few hours now and still can't find where the problem lies. Call it a brain fart or a senior moment or....

This is a simple...

In my previous message I indicated that once the baud rate was changed, the original program that I posted was working ok.
Then I noticed some errors popping up so I decided to delve further into...

Ioannis...

looks like I jumped the gun there. Your code seems to be working much better than the one I used.

Thank you for your help. Hopefully I'll be ok from hereon.

Alex

Of course!

I'm sending the preamble at a wrong baud rate! DOH!

Changed it and it works ok now....

thanks!!!

Alex

Obviously I missed a few posts.
;)

Thanks for the info there Ioannis.


I searched the forum some more this morning and I was able to whip out a tx/rx pair that ALMOST works, based on code...

Bo...

don't sweat it. I'm sure we've all been there at one time or another.
I've been down that road before and best advice I can offer is this: walk away from it for a while (ie. go take a nap,...