Re: Epson Serial POS VFD (SED2800F)

I wrote the driver, but I did not have an Epson display to test on. AEDEX works for sure, I use it all the time.  I need to check the code when I get home.  If you send me a display temporarily for testing I can make sure it works properly.

--Eric  

---- Marc Nannestad <[email protected]> wrote: 
> Hello all.
> 
> First let me apologise if this is the wrong place, but I can't seem to find
> the resources I am after anywhere else.
> 
> I have recently acquired a couple of epson serial vfd's from point of sale
> stands (as purchased on
> eBay<http://cgi.ebay.com/Epson-serial-VFD-Display-Arduino-LCD-Smartie-/110448153207?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item19b7391277#ht_500wt_949>
> ).
> 
> I have tested the display under WinXP with lcd smartie and it mostly works
> apart from a couple of odd characters every now and again. Having moved on
> to lcdproc (Ubuntu 10.10) I am having a few small problems.
> 
> Config is at least partially working. I get valid characters but I have
> different problems depending on protocol selected for the serialpos driver.
> If I select AEDEX, the 1st line of the default welcome, however it repeats
> on the second line of my vfd, and has various alternating characters.
> Looking something like this:-
> _#### LCDproc Server
> ~'1## LCDproc Server
> 
> with the first 3 characters of each line flickering in a repeatative
> fashion.
> 
> If I select Epson as the protocol, I get a string of 010101010101 over and
> over (despite attempting to display and rotate between the default screens
> of lcdproc.
> 
> Standard setup, serialPOS, 20x2, ttyS0, 115200, unchanged config from
> default apart from these settings.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas? Perhaps the command set on my display is slightly
> different than other Epson displays? Any help into where I can go from here
> would be appreciated. Link to datasheets and other info are at
> http://whitej.googlepages.com/arduinoextras
> 
> I am techie enough to get my head around most things, and can use google for
> those I don't understand, so don't be afraid to supply a technical answer.
> 
> Many thanks in advance, and many thanks for the wonderfully useful piece of
> software I plan on using in my projects.
> 
> Regards,
> marc nannestad
> irelandpcguy