Raspberry Pi LCD program
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Command line arguments
-a <addr> address of display, defaults to 0x82 -p <l> <c> Jump to line <l> and character <c> -t <text> print text -T <l> <c> <text> Print tekst -b <> Adjust backlight level -C <> Adjust contrast -r clear/reset/reinitialise? display -f <file> display text from file
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