Raspberry Pi LCD program
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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 2,1 "Hello World"
Print the contents of "textfile":
LCD -f textfile
Write two different strings to two daisy-chained displays:
LCD -a 82 -T 0,0 display0 LCD -a 84 -T 0,0 display1