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|   -t <text>          print text |   -t <text>          print text | ||
|   -T <c>,<l> <text>  Print tekst starting at line <l> character <c>.  |   -T <c>,<l> <text>  Print tekst starting at line <l> character <c>.  | ||
|   -b <b>             Adjust backlight level |   -b < b >             Adjust backlight level | ||
|   -c <c>             Adjust contrast |   -c <c>             Adjust contrast | ||
|   -C                 clearscreen  |   -C                 clearscreen  | ||
Revision as of 15:05, 6 June 2012
Command line arguments
SPI options: -D <device> SPI device to use. default: /dev/spidev0.0 -s <speed> speed to use on the SPI bus default 0.5MHz. -d <delay> delay between bytes. default: 15 us.
-a <addr> address of display, defaults to 0x82 -p <c>,<l> Jump to line <l> and character <c> -t <text> print text -T <c>,<l> <text> Print tekst starting at line <l> character <c>. -b < b > Adjust backlight level -c <c> Adjust contrast -C clearscreen -f <file> display text from file (not implemented yet).
Example commands
Print current date on line 0:
LCD -p 0 0 -t `date +%m/%d/%Y`
Print the text "Hello World" on line 1, character 2:
LCD -T 1 2 "Hello World"
Print the contents of "textfile":
LCD -f textfile
Write two different strings to two daisy-chained displays:
LCD -a 82 -l 0 -c 0 -t display0 LCD -a 84 -l 0 -c 0 -t display1