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aargee
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Posted: 01:26am 26 Nov 2014

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Geoff (and all),

I'm using a 4 line x 16 Character LCD, the character positioning doesn't seem to work. It seems like there is an assumption that the LCD is 20 Chars wide. Lines 1 and 2 are OK but 3 and 4 are offset 4 Chars to the right. This is the same using LCD, 1, 1, "XYZ" or LCD, 1, C16, "XYZ"

Maybe the LCD statement could have a definition of the LCD connected? e.g.

LCD INIT 2, 3, 4, 5, 23, 24, 4X16 or 2X20 or 1X16 etc

and...

The Interrupt controller is on hold while the Micromite waits while the DS18B20 conversion process is occurring?

Excuse me if I'm missing something...

- Rob.

For crying out loud, all I wanted to do was flash this blasted LED.

TassyJim

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Posted: 10:02am 26 Nov 2014

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aargee said Geoff (and all),

The Interrupt controller is on hold while the Micromite waits while the DS18B20 conversion process is occurring?

Excuse me if I'm missing something...

- Rob.

From the manual

Quote The time required for the overall measurement is 200mS and interrupts will
be ignored during this period. Alternatively the DS18B20 START command
can be used to start the measurement and your program can do other things
while the conversion is progressing.

Jim

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robert.rozee
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Posted: 10:49am 26 Nov 2014

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hi,
there have been various discussions about 4-line LCD displays having offset characters in the 3rd and 4th lines. it seems there are at least 2 different configurations of display hardware out there. people have kludged a solution in the past by applying offsets to the horizontal position for these lines with 4-line displays.

geoff: is this something that could be revisited for the mk2 firmware, perhaps an extra (optional) parameter to the LCD initialization code?

cheers,
rob :-)Edited by robert.rozee 2014-11-27

aargee
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Posted: 11:10am 26 Nov 2014

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Thanks, Jim, I should RTFM! (more closely)

BTW - is your MMEdit webpage down?

For crying out loud, all I wanted to do was flash this blasted LED.

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Posted: 12:29pm 26 Nov 2014

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aargee said Thanks, Jim, I should RTFM! (more closely)

BTW - is your MMEdit webpage down?

Yes. It went down sometime this morning. I hope that means that the hosting provider is working on the email problem I reported to them yesterday.

If it stays down, I will provide an alternative site later.

Here is an alternative:
http://www.users.on.net/~tassyjim/MMedit.htm

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Posted: 03:27pm 26 Nov 2014

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My website went off air sometime this morning.

I have been having problems with email lately and I hope the problem means the host provider is working on it.

I can FTP and ping etc but no web server.

Here is an alternative which I will probably make the main site soon.

http://www.users.on.net/~tassyjim/MMedit.htm

Jim
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