LCDout Command causes Interrupt!!??

[Tom Gonser]

I have tried a few things - thanks for the reply. What seems to have worked is turning off Timer0 all together..

T0CON = 1

.... Seems to keep the LCD from triggering the interrupt / timer whichever it was!!

NOW THAT IT WORKS, I have another issue seems to be that the LDCout command is not displaying the first character --

LCDout $fe, 1
LCDout $FE, $C0
LCDout $FE, "P:",#Dec_mb dig 4,#Dec_mb dig 3, #Dec_mb dig 2,#Dec_mb dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_mb,"F:",#Dec_tempf dig 3, #Dec_tempf dig 2,#Dec_tempf dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_Tempf

Displays "1013.3F:73.2"

It is SUPPOSED to display "P:1013.3F:73.2"

Why does the "P:" disappear?? I tried putting in " P:", and it still is not there!!

Why does LCDout not like "P:"??

Thanks!

Tom

[Darrel Taylor]

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LCDout $FE, "P:",#Dec_mb dig 4,#Dec_mb dig 3, #Dec_mb dig 2,#Dec_mb dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_mb,"F:",#Dec_tempf dig 3, #Dec_tempf dig 2,#Dec_tempf dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_Tempf

Displays "1013.3F:73.2"

It is SUPPOSED to display "P:1013.3F:73.2"

Tom,

The $FE at the biginning of the LCDOUT makes PBP think the next character is a Command. But instead it's the "P" that you want to display. If you remove the $FE it should work better.

Darrel

[Melanie]

That at least is an easy answer...

You have LCDOUT $FE...

either put a control character after the $FE (eg $FE,$C0 to position on the 2nd line), of lose the $FE.

so either...

LCDout $FE,$C0,"P:",#Dec_mb dig 4,#Dec_mb dig 3, #Dec_mb dig 2,#Dec_mb dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_mb,"F:",#Dec_tempf dig 3, #Dec_tempf dig 2,#Dec_tempf dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_Tempf

or

LCDout "P:",#Dec_mb dig 4,#Dec_mb dig 3, #Dec_mb dig 2,#Dec_mb dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_mb,"F:",#Dec_tempf dig 3, #Dec_tempf dig 2,#Dec_tempf dig 1, ".",dec1 Dec_Tempf

Bah! Beaten to an answer!

[Tom Gonser]

THANKS!! That does help. I have another question tho on LCD positioning:

If I just say

LDCout $fe, 1
LCDout $fe, 2
LCDout " Hi There"

It shows up as

"re" on the first line of the display... I have to add a bunch of

LCDout $fe, $10, $10, $10, $10, $10

to get it to move over... Why is this think thinking the edge of the screen is so far OFF the screen to the left??

Tom

[mister_e]

what about if you use only
LCDOUT $FE,1,"Hi there!!!"


add a pause 2000 at the begining of your code?

And now remove those DEFINE LCD_COMMANDUS and DEFINE LCD_DATAUS???

[Tom Gonser]

Had the delay between commands at 500.. Switched to 2000 and it seems to have fixed it.. Where is it waiting for TWO SECONDS to do anything??

[mister_e]

It appear that some LCD brand need big start-up delay. try decreasing it to PAUSE 1000.