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Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

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Latvian3Dman
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Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

Post by Latvian3Dman »

Hello all! There are those "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD" displays on Aliexpress, I have one, it connects via USB, and detects in Windows as a normal COM port, via chip CH340. It works with "AIDA64" as advertised, if we choose external display type "Matrix Orbital LK". So far so good. Unfortunately, it does not work with LCD Smartie, using usual "matrix.dll".
Matrix Orbital says this about "LK":
"Covering the most popular liquid crystal display configurations, control of the modules has been simplified to a set of commands delivered via RS232, RS422, I2C and USB. Meant to save time and money, we have worked to ensure that the tedious timing and special conditions typical of display controllers have been eliminated from our interface to help get your project to market faster."
Has anyone with programming/coding/DLL making knowledge tried to get those work with LCD Smartie? Please, that would be awesome :)
Here is not much telling manual for that display module:
http://surenoo.tech/download/01_SLC/LCD ... Manual.pdf
And, Aliexpress link to one I've got: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005868813128.html
Thank You in advance for any help on this! :)

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Re: Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

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Follow the links in the doc and you will see you need to use lcd2usb.dll. Instructions are there for lcdsmartie.

Latvian3Dman
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Re: Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

Post by Latvian3Dman »

Unfortunately, that is not for this case, not for this particular VFD module.
There is that USB2LCD.DLL mentioned for other their modules, and also for separate USB to LCD module, but it is not for this particular VFD that I posted. You can compare PDFs, different usages. My VFD is in Windows system as a COM port, and in AIDA64 it works as "Matrix Orbital LK" type (not "USB2LCD").
Basically, question is, can we have a LCDSmartie display DLL for this "Matrix Orbital LK" protocol, which is different (they say "simplified") from old "Matrix" prootocol that LCDSmartie has.

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Re: Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

Post by limbo »

Can you give a try to the TestDriver.dll ?

https://lcdsmartie.sourceforge.net/testdriver.html

Latvian3Dman
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Re: Chinese "USB2VFD AIDA64 VFD"?

Post by Latvian3Dman »

interesting, I will dig that "testdriver" and its settings, Thank You. Will try in some next days,

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