Re: Raspberry Pi as an inexpensive embedded LCDproc server

On 19.08.2012 15:28, paul_c wrote:
> On Saturday 18 August 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> There would need to be some driver mods to use R-Pi GPIO
> Attached, first draft of a patch to drive a 44780 module using the gpio 
> on a Raspberry Pi. Connected as a 4bit device to keep the wires down, 
> it assumes only a single display is attached. Connections are:
>
>  * header (gpio)  LCD
>  * P1-12 (18)     D7 (14)
>  * P1-16 (23)     D6 (13)
>  * P1-18 (24)     D5 (12)
>  * P1-22 (25)     D4 (11)
>  * P1-24 (8)      EN (6)
>  * P1-26 (7)      RS (4)
>
> See: 
> http://www.raspberrypi-spy.co.uk/2012/07/16x2-lcd-module-control-using-python/ 
> for further details and a python test program.
>
> As the patch also touches on the configure & makefiles, autotools 
> (aclocal, autoconf & automake) need to be installed - pkglib_PROGRAMS 
> is now an invalid option, so a small tweak was required in 
> server/drivers/Makefile.am to work round the problem.
>
> In use, the ConnectionType under [hd44780] is simply "rpi".
>
>
> Regards, Paul.
>

Hi,

nice - I wondered how long it will take until one comes up with such a
thing. With 4 months delivery time I will have to wait some more time
until I get one :(

And I am surprised that LCDproc (at least the non hardware related
parts) work without any patches - great!

Please base patches against CVS HEAD (or a nightly build). Thank you.

Regards,
Markus