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| Cambo
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| Fri 08 Apr 2022 01:37 PM (UTC) Amended on Fri 08 Apr 2022 01:39 PM (UTC) by Cambo
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| Hi Nick,
Your GLCD I2C hardware and library (http://www.gammon.com.au/lcd) work great for me and I've been using them for some years now, thank you. I'm keen to get the code working on the MKR SAMD boards and whilst the code compiles OK it doesn't work and I can't really see why - would you be up for givung me a pointer as to which parts of the library I should be looking at to get this working? Cheers. | | Top |
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| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,120 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Sat 09 Apr 2022 01:56 AM (UTC) |
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| I have virtually no experience with the SAMD boards, so I can't help you, sorry.
I suggest you ask on the Arduino Forum or Arduino Stack Exchange as per the boilerplate below.
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- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Cambo
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| Reply #2 on Wed 13 Apr 2022 08:50 AM (UTC) |
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| Hi Nick,
Thanks for getting back to me, appreciated.
Kind regards | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Cambo
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| Reply #3 on Thu 14 Apr 2022 09:59 AM (UTC) |
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| | PS, for anyone else follwoing along.... the issue comes from the first call of Wire.endTransmission() in LCD.begin() which crashes the MCU - when I find the solution I will post the fix. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
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| Reply #4 on Sat 16 Apr 2022 07:57 AM (UTC) |
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| | On the AVR boards the endTransmission is where the work is actually done, so perhaps there is a clash between that and initialising the LCD. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Cambo
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| Reply #5 on Sun 17 Apr 2022 01:55 PM (UTC) |
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| Thanks Nick, I've tested some more and found that this error occurs regardless of whether the LCD is connected or not. I've also found that your I2C Scanner code returns a valid device address as per below. This is leading me to think that whatever is being sent in the first bunch of LCD.begin() data is throwing the issue. I've tried changing the I2C clock speed from 10000 to 1000000 with other speeds in-between but no change is observed.... I will try to figure out 'what' is being sent in that first packet of data.
I2C scanner. Scanning ...
Found address: 32 (0x20)
Found address: 64 (0x40)
Found address: 104 (0x68)
Found address: 110 (0x6E)
Done.
Found 4 device(s). | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Cambo
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| Reply #6 on Tue 07 Jun 2022 01:10 PM (UTC) |
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| Hi Nick,
A quick update with a little progress. I can get the backlight LED to blink on and off with the code below so the hardware and basic operation is working on the ARM.... now just have to work out why the demo doesn't work.
#include <Wire.h>
void setup()
{
Wire.begin(); // join i2c bus (address optional for master)
}
void loop()
{
Wire.beginTransmission (0x20); // expander has I2C address 0x20
Wire.write (0x00); // register 0 is the I/O direction register for Port A
Wire.write (0x00); // 0x00 for all pins to output mode, 0xFF for all pins to input mode
Wire.endTransmission ();
Wire.beginTransmission (0x20); // expander has I2C address 0x20
Wire.write (0x12); // register 0x12 is the I/O port "A"
Wire.write (0x56); // what to put on that port
Wire.endTransmission ();
Wire.beginTransmission (0x20); // expander has I2C address 0x20
Wire.write (0x12); // register 0x12 is the I/O port "A"
Wire.write (0x3F); // 0x3F turns the backlight on.
Wire.endTransmission ();
delay (1000);
Wire.beginTransmission (0x20); // expander has I2C address 0x20
Wire.write (0x12); // register 0x12 is the I/O port "A"
Wire.write (0x3E); // 0x3E turns the backlight off.
Wire.endTransmission ();
} | | Top |
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