16f688 lcd connection

[emerson]

Would the 16c505, 16f630, or 16f627 be any easier to configure? I just found some in a box of components.

HEY!!! I tried my code with both the 16f630 and the 16c505 and it worked! Too bad you can only program 16c505 once, oh well.

Thanks to everyone for their help. I really appreciate your time and effort.

[Archangel]

Hi emerson,
glad it works with the chip you tried, but it should work with the 16F688 too. I am still leaning toward an analog function killing it. I did not see ANSELH in the data sheet but have found that to cause chips that have it to not do digital, try ANSELH=0 , if the compiler errors then it is invalid, but it is worth a try,(it is free to try, right?). You say you are set up to use MPASM. MPASM configs are different than the PB configs you have shown, and at any rate to use your own configs you MUST open the 16F688.inc file in your PBP root directory and comment out the config statements inside of it by adding a semicolon [ ; ] just ahead of them, there are 2 configs there one for PB and the other for MPASM. MPASM will look like
@ __config, HS_OSC & MCLRE_OFF & . . . . if you do not comment them out you will get compile error complaint of overwriting . . . and it will use the default config you failed to comment out.
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