LCD_AnyPin.pbp

[PICn-It]

Are you sure LCD is OK?

Ioannis

Yes, when I plug it into another pic controlled unit I get both lines of verbiage expected.

Is the RW pin on the LCD connected to the PIC, or is it grounded?
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The circuit board has the RW line hard-wired to ground.

Would it be better to re-post this Q over in the regular part of the forum since it's doesn't seem related directly to the LCD_Anypin extension? my thinking is it might be something peculiar to the 16F883 that someone may see and chime-in about.

[PICn-It]

Schematic attached.
(Note that in the code I'm not doing anythng with the sensor yet, and it's disconected from AN0 right now)

[PICn-It]

(sound of crickets chirping....)

[Melanie]

Just curious why you have LCD Data on RB2,3,4 & 5. If you simply moved them up two pins and moves E and RS down, you could use the standard PICBasic product with no modifications. I can understand if you have a PIC which doesn't have four consecutive pins available on a port, but why go to all the inconvenience when there is no need?

[Darrel Taylor]

In your code above, you have MCLRE enabled.

But in the schematic you don't have a pull-up on MCLR (Pin 1).
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[PICn-It]

In your code above, you have MCLRE enabled.

But in the schematic you don't have a pull-up on MCLR (Pin 1).
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I'll try adding that, thank you. I'm sorry to keep bugging you about this.

Just curious why you have LCD Data on RB2,3,4 & 5. If you simply moved them up two pins and moves E and RS down, you could use the standard PICBasic product with no modifications. I can understand if you have a PIC which doesn't have four consecutive pins available on a port, but why go to all the inconvenience when there is no need?

The circuit board is an existing design, I'd love to move things but I have to go with the produced PCB. The next thing one might wonder is how a person like me ends up with this on his plate? well I have VB, C, C++, MFC and C# experience and someone, in their infinite wisdom thought I'd be good to take this on as a "challenge". What I have absolutely zero experience with is PIC microcontrollers which seems to be a long-shot away from Windows programming.

I'm sorry if I'm testing anyone's patience over this, perhaps PBP isn't the right tool for this task, perhaps I'll look into some C implementations for achieving this task.

[Ioannis]

Unless Darrel has done this routine in C, I think you won't find a solution in other places...

Ioannis