Noritake itron GU140x16G-7003

[hydrolisk1792]

I have a bunch of these displays laying around from Dixie Narco 5800 glass front soda machines. I'm looking to get them working on LCD Smartie. I want to use them as any other display so I can test them and keep a few for projects to make sure they are working. According to this:

viewtopic.php?f=8&t=3216&p=18367&hilit= ... 922#p18367

they should work fine in LCD Smartie with the driver he has made. Well even without the display attached to the computer via serial, LCD Smartie (BETA) opens, minimizes and does nothing. The only way to close it is to go into task manager and force close it. In LCD Smartie 5.4, LCD Smartie opens in the background, and does nothing, so again, force close it is. I believe there is something wrong with this driver... I'm running Win7 X86 on some machines at the shop and X64 at the control centre. I'm looking to use these displays in both environments. Could someone have a look at that topic download the driver and see what the issue is? I believe this is right up your alley dperrow. Any help would be greatly appreciated on this, and thanks ahead of time.

P.S. If a completely new driver could be made if the old one can't be salvaged, that would be fine too.

[dperrow]

Hi there,
Having had a quick look at the docs, a couple of suggestions:

1. is the serial port you are using two way? i.e. supporting output and input? I think it needs to be.
2. Are you using a serial port lower than COM7?

To write a driver for this I'd need to start from scratch since the sources for the existing driver don't seem to be available. That would be hard (as for previous ones).

I presume you've tried to contact the writer via the link provided?

[hydrolisk1792]

Hi there,
Having had a quick look at the docs, a couple of suggestions:

1. is the serial port you are using two way? i.e. supporting output and input? I think it needs to be.
2. Are you using a serial port lower than COM7?

To write a driver for this I'd need to start from scratch since the sources for the existing driver don't seem to be available. That would be hard (as for previous ones).

I presume you've tried to contact the writer via the link provided?

Hey man, it's been a while

I was using one of the shop computers to try and make it work which has a native serial port built onto the motherboard. I'd assume it is bi-directional because it does have RX and TX pins. If I'm not mistaken the Serial protocol on a normal PC is RS232, right? All I have hooked to the display are the (from PC side) TX, CTS, and GND.

I was using COM1 since there is only one com port on that PC at the shop. I have since taken a few of the display to the centre and will try it on a USB to serial adapter. One of the machines I would like to install this display into has a motherboard header for the com port which will be awesome and a neater install.

I have not tried to contact the writer because on the forum post, someone had posted a problem with the driver and never got a reply, so I didn't bother.

P.S. Also I'mm not too certain of which RS232 pin to hook to the "reset" pin on the display... How I have it right now is where I have the TX pin going to the SIN pin on the display, the CTS going to SBUSY pin on the display, GND going to GND, and I'm not sure which one to put on reset pin on display, so I just have it floating.

[dperrow]

I don't think you need to connect to the reset pin but I do think you will need the RX pin connected.

[hydrolisk1792]

I don't think you need to connect to the reset pin but I do think you will need the RX pin connected.

In your opinion where should I put the RX pin on the display?