Arduino: The Noiasca Liquid Crystal with Language Support

This page should give an overview of the Noiasca Liquid Crystal, the supported devices and the different constructors.

The library supports several hardware implementations. As it makes no sense to make "one fits all" class I splitted the library in lot of single classes which different constructors. Even if the implementation of some methods might be different, the API - the application programm interface - of the different classes are as consistant as possible. Furthermore I tried to achieve some "backward" compatibility to some common HD44780 libraries like Liquid_Crystal, Liquid_Crystal_I2C, new Liquid Crystal / fmbadia, Adafruit_Liquid_Crystal, Liquid Crystal RUS, Liquid Crystal 440 to name a few.

The constructer of the class determines the hardware implementation (e.g. the connection type by an expander).

The initializer list (the "parameters" on class creation) define the basic unchangeable parameters.

Example it makes absolute no sense to change the column or row definition during runtime - it is fixed by the hardware anyway. It will not change during runtime. A "lcd.begin(2, 16)" call in setup will have no effect on the display layout. The parameters are just accepted for compatibility reasons but will be ignored. The column and row definition is already done when you create the instance of the object.

what class inherits from
parallel 4bit   LiquidCrystal_dummy
I2C PCF8574 (4bit) HW Implementation   LiquidCrystal_dummy
I2C PCF8574 (4bit) custompin _custompin lcd_i2c_base (besser die lcd_i2c)
SPI MCP23S08 (4bit)   LiquidCrystal_dummy
Native I2C (8bit)   LiquidCrystal_dummy
RGB (Groove, RGB)   LiquidCrystal_dummy
parallel 4bit with broken/faulty backlight circuit
 (tbd)		   LiquidCrystal_dummy
I2C MCP23017
(tbd)		   LiquidCrystal_dummy
440,  40x4 displays
(tbd)		   LiquidCrystal_dummy
Modbus Master sender not in the LCD library but included in  the Modbus Slave Library LiquidCrystal_dummy
I2C PCF8574 fast LiquidCrystal_PCF8574_fast_base

LiquidCrystal_PCF8574_fast

 LiquidCrystal_dummy

Supported Hardware

what speciality inherits from
HD44780 A00 the most common "Default" ROM (English/Japanese)  
SPLC780D1 003A European  
SPLC780D1 002A Cyrillic  
ST7070 This LCD has two built in character sets, you can use both in parallel:
Western European
supports Greek and Latin, two pages		  
OLED LEC1621 This LCD has four built in character sets but you can use only one at the time:

LEC1621_00 English Japanese (similar to HD44780 A00 but extended with Hebrew)
LEC1621_01 Western European
LEC1621_02 English Russian
LEC1621_03 Western European II

  
AIP31068L uses same Character ROM like HD44780 A00  
     

Summary

With the additional language converters it becomes very easy to convert from letters with diacritic signs to the printable ASCII letters. If you are from an European country and you need better support of Latin1-4 letters you should consider to buy a SPLC780D1 LCD - which is also supported by this library.

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History

First upload: 2020-09-02 | Version: 2024-03-22