Hobby Boards LCD Driver

[chrkov]

I got my LCD Driver today, but I have never sent information over the 1-wire network before. I could really use a little help.

I see there are 8 switches now that show up on my 1 wire. I was told before to send what I want to display using

Use hs.SetDeviceString "DC","Text to Display"

But which switch do I send that to?

Also, I had a DS2406 added to control the backlight. How do I turn these switches on and off?

Thanks

[chrkov]

Ok.

I now have it where I can turn the backlight on and off.

I can also now send the text to the lcd via mcsxap1wire.

But when I do a
hs.SetDeviceString "[28","Hello"

I see the string update on [28 but the text never displays on the lcd.

[Michael McSharry]

There is a setting for AAG vs. Hobby-board lcd. Tthedefault is AAG

[chrkov]

I did change that to Hobby-Boards and also set it as a 4 X 20.

[chrkov]

If it helps, I am running the hybrid version of the plugin.

I also captured this from XAPviewer

The following message caused an error during its processing.
Name/value pair contains no valid separator characters
The message was received from 127.0.0.1:32768

------------
xap-header
{
v=13
hop=1
uid=FF.000E:00
class=Homeseer.Event
source=mcs.Xap.KOV-NT3
}
Event.String
{
Device=[29
Text= 9:42:00 PM

It is working
}

------------
The error that was generated is as follows:
Name/value pair contains no valid separator characters

Source: xFx
Name/value pair contains no valid separator characters
KCS.xAP.Framework.xAPMessageReaderException: Name/value pair contains no valid separator characters
at KCS.xAP.Framework.Message.xAPInfo.GetPairValueEncodingFormat (String line, Int32 line_number)
at KCS.xAP.Framework.Message.xAPMessageReader.ReadMessagePair(x APMessage message, String line)
at KCS.xAP.Framework.Message.xAPMessageReader.ReadMessage()
at KCS.xAP.Framework.Transport.xAPListener.ProcessQueuedMessage (xAPRawData data)

[Michael McSharry]

It looks like mcsXap did not recognize this message as multi-line. When there are control characters (e.g. CR LF) it should convert the data field to hex for transmission. I do not have the source for mcsXap with me on the road, but I would try a simplier single line string for testing purposes. I do send send multi-line LCD text from HS as part a single line script event each minute which contain time and temperature so I know it works. We just need to find the secret.

[chrkov]

Thanks.

I did that and it worked. Then I went back and put my multi line and it works now too.

Go figure.

Chris