Anyone here have experience with Natriumtech LCD? RS232

Cochran · Post by **Cochran** » May 30th, 2007, 5:05 am

Hi, I have this Natriumtech LCD connected by Serial Port RS232. The LCD i have is a 20x4 HD44780 LCD and the controller is a RS232 Serial LCD
Ready to use 20x4 HD44780 Liquid Crystal Display packaged with UltraSI.

I all along been using it in WIndow XP Pro with the software LCDcentre. recently i have change my OS to Window Vista 32bit. Now LCDcentre software dun work on VIsta.

Anyone know if i can use the LCD Smartie to make my LCD work in Vista again?

Here is the link to my LCD.
http://www.natriumtech.com/products.php

Pls help me. thanks

Post by **caesar** » May 30th, 2007, 6:58 am

There are chances to get it to work by using the test driver. You will need to know how your lcd works for this to happen, and by that I mean the command set.
I looked at that site but couldn't find any useful info. Most surely your lcd came with some sort of manual.
You can fetch that info from the manual and customise the ini file used by the test driver to suit your lcd.

Good luck!

Cochran · Post by **Cochran** » May 30th, 2007, 10:11 am

It dun come with any manual.
And i'm not to sure how the test driver works

Any guide to help me get started off?

Cochran · Post by **Cochran** » May 30th, 2007, 10:11 am

Cochran wrote:It dun come with any manual.
And i'm not to sure how the test driver works

Any guide to help me get started off?

will update with more information later when i got home.

Cochran · Post by **Cochran** » May 30th, 2007, 11:36 am

K. here is a LCDriver which appear inside control panel. Its able to work. The test is success on the LCD itself.

Anyone know how?

Post by **caesar** » May 31st, 2007, 9:42 pm

hmm... by test driver I meant the display driver plugin from smartie, you can select it from display driver tab.
the .ini file is in smartie's folder.

Read more here: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic. ... 1881#11881

Post by **mattcro** » June 1st, 2007, 11:19 am

hmmm, in the screenshot you have selected Wirz/Seetron as the LCD type.

Smartie supports both variants of the Seetron protocol. I don't know which one the Natrium LCDs use, but try the "LCD" protocol. The startup parameters line would then be "COM1,115200,1" based on your screenshot.

Try selecting Seetron as the display type in Smartie ("seetron.dll" in the Display Plugin section) and set baud rate/com port to suit.

If that doesn't work, you may have to play around with the test driver, but you need to know the protocol to make it work...