4X20 PicoLCD request

apineda · Post by **apineda** » December 11th, 2008, 5:07 am

Hi,

Any plans to support the USB-LCD-4X20 picoLCD at: www.mini-cox.com?

P.S. I have one and would be willing to test.

GizmoTheGreen · Post by **GizmoTheGreen** » December 11th, 2008, 8:20 am

you mean www.mini-box.com dont you?

or you thought too much of cox (cocks) while writing? i found it hilarious, lol

Post by **caesar** » December 11th, 2008, 3:15 pm

There is a plugin already available here: http://forums.lcdsmartie.org/viewtopic.php?t=1708

It's a big forum but "Search" is a good and trusty friend

PS: Gizmo, even if it's funny, please keep it decent! It's a tech forum, not a poultry farm...

apineda · Post by **apineda** » December 12th, 2008, 5:54 am

Thanks, I tried that display driver but I could not get it to work. It did not give me any errors, it just didn't connect with the device. It may not be the driver though, let me debug some more.

I appreciate the quick response and will post my findings.

Regards,

Andy

GizmoTheGreen · Post by **GizmoTheGreen** » December 12th, 2008, 1:46 pm

sorry caesar, couldnt help myeslf, let him edit his post for fix it and you can remove mine if you want to, aha xD

apineda, good luck hope you can get it to work

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » March 22nd, 2009, 8:32 am

Hi im having problem with this driver, it doesn't work on vista x64 or windows 7 x64. Has anyone found any drivers that will work.

Post by **caesar** » March 22nd, 2009, 10:07 pm

You mean that the lcd is not recognized by vista 64? Then we cannot help you with that. Try the manufacturer's website.

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » March 23rd, 2009, 6:10 am

no i mean i think this driver was made for the old 20x2 picolcd, i have the newer 20x4 usb version.

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » March 26th, 2009, 4:04 pm

i just received an email from mini-box and they said "we do not have 64bit drivers at this time" which basicly means ur on ur own

i just got this display off ebay for 20 thinking i got a good deal now i understand why no one bidded on it.

does anyone have any solutions lol

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » April 20th, 2009, 10:06 am

anyone found any solutions? i would really love to be able to use this thing with my HTPC

Post by **caesar** » April 20th, 2009, 5:21 pm

the only solution i see is for you to use either win xp or linux.

i really don't see them having a signed driver for vista...

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » April 25th, 2009, 10:16 pm

At http://www.picolcd.com/drivers/

They have a 32 bit driver for vista and a 32bit driver for windows xp.

They real interesting thing is they included a test program that includes the Source Codes

I tried this test program on my Windows 7 64bit and the program works fines, im able to get it to display text and interact with the lcd but thats about it.

Since they included the source code would it be possible to somehow make lcd smartie drivers out of them

Post by **caesar** » April 27th, 2009, 6:34 pm

I'll try to have a look at it in a week or two, please post the links to the test program.

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » April 27th, 2009, 11:34 pm

thank you soo much for the help

here is the program and source code

http://resources.mini-box.com/online/pi ... 20_SRC.zip

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » May 21st, 2009, 5:02 am

any luck? or is the src program completely useless?

Post by **caesar** » May 29th, 2009, 8:59 pm

Didn't have time yet, sorry.

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » July 3rd, 2009, 3:09 pm

any progress?

Post by **caesar** » July 3rd, 2009, 10:47 pm

Looked at it, still nauseated by the code.

All I can say right now is that it would be much easier to have the codes that the client sends to pico deamon and use them

Are the codes available? Then I could easily change the already existing pico driver to incorporate the new codes.
Have you tried it to see if it works somewhat?

ekkat · Post by **ekkat** » September 23rd, 2009, 9:11 pm

lol i don't know anything about coding so i think im just going to order a new display. Thank you very much for giving it a try.

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