7i73 Pendent Control

Well, I noticed that \n occupies a digit. That is 01234567890123456789\n gives the first string 01234567890123456789 and the second string is empty.
So I deleted all \n.
But for instance loadrt lcd fmt_strings="01234567890123456789X% 9.4f S% 8.0fY% 9.4f FO% 7.2fZ% 9.4f SO% 7.2f" still blinking

Also, loadrt lcd fmt_strings="0123456789012345678 X% 9.4f S% 7.0f\nY% 9.4f FO% 6.2f\nZ% 9.4f SO% 6.2f" gives X at the last bottom digit out of nowhere. And usual blinking

Much for LCD component because no blinking when machine is turned off.

If you want analog inputs you want software mode 1, The LCD component does not support the fast (32 bit) LCD mode selected by software mode 2.

Also what display do you have? If its not 20X4,
the 7I73s EEPROM LCD setting will need to be changed

I already know where the problem is.
I want to use all string lenght so bottom right digit is used too. Then | symbol meant to create the next page also wants to show and it pops in upper left corner and forms an empty string there. That gives first string blinking.

You don't have the problem because the last digits are free (or they contain \n).

Is it possible to change something so that \n and | would not show at all?

PS this is my cheap 2004 display (this was taken when the last digits were free and it did not blink)

PCW wrote:

If you want analog inputs you want software mode 1, The LCD component does not support the fast (32 bit) LCD mode selected by software mode 2.

I had already read that somewhere here... so I was surprised that it works somehow.
I just changed for net lcd-out => hm2_5i25.0.7i73.0.1.display32 and it's ok

I guess it might work since there will only be one 8 bit character in the 32 bit data and the other bytes will be nulls which are ignored.

You will not get the faster update rate since the LCD comp will only send a character at a time instead of 4 however.

About contrast control. LCD man says
lcd.NN.contrast (u32) in
Attempts to set the contrast of the LCD screen using the byte sequence ESC C and then a value from 0x20 to 0xBF. (matching the Mesa 7i73)

Does it send the sequence right to LCD or it's for MESA 7i73 to change the voltage on LCD11 pin?

It changes the pin voltage LCD11 (P1 pin 29)

PCW wrote:

It changes the pin voltage LCD11 (P1 pin 29)

Well, then it does not work well for me... whatever I set for lcd.00.contrast it's near 0.5V on LCD11

But at the moment when I execute setp lcd.00.contrast something blinks on the display... so my guess is lcd component might send the value not for MESA control but right to LCD display

What LCD are you using?
(the VEE setting does no work for all)
Also note the range of the setting in the manual.
It will not work outside of that range