Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-28 Thread RobH
On 28/09/2019 15:59, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:46:58 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: Thanks for all that information, but first of all using just import adafruit blinka did not work as it returned bas: import: command not found. Were you in the Python3 in

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-27 Thread RobH
On 27/09/2019 15:28, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Fri, 27 Sep 2019 10:48:29 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: Ok, the adafruit_character_lcd is in the same directory as yours, and so is Blinka and Purio. It seems to be a bit of a long path to type to get to the Adafruit_Charlcd directory, bu

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-27 Thread RobH
On 27/09/2019 04:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 23:04:15 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: As I said, I have downloaded the circuitpython chalcd files from the link using pip3 install, but after downloading I can't find any Adafruit folders on my pi zero. Doing a search

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread DL Neil via Python-list
On 27/09/19 7:21 AM, RobH wrote: On 26/09/2019 17:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:58:15 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: ... Check out this guide for info on using character LCDs with the CircuitPython library: https://learn.adafruit.com/character-lcds/python-circuit

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
On 26/09/2019 20:21, RobH wrote: On 26/09/2019 17:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:58:15 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: import Adafruit_CharLCD as LCD FYI: from Adafruit's download site: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD """ DEPRECATED LIBR

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
On 26/09/2019 17:51, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2019 11:58:15 +0100, RobH declaimed the following: import Adafruit_CharLCD as LCD FYI: from Adafruit's download site: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_Python_CharLCD """ DEPRECATED LIBRARY. Adafruit Python CharLCD T

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
On 26/09/2019 15:22, Chris Angelico wrote: On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:01 PM RobH wrote: import Adafruit_CharLCD as LCD # Raspberry Pi pin configuration: Ah, it's an RPi with Adafruit. That's the same library that my brother uses. I don't know much of the details, but in case it's helpful, h

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
On 26/09/2019 12:55, Rhodri James wrote: On 26/09/2019 11:58, RobH wrote: Thanks, but was is Python REPR. DL was referring to the interactive program you get when you type "python" at a Linux or Windows command prompt.  Here's an example, copied from my Linux box: rhodri@scrote:~$ python P

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 9:01 PM RobH wrote: > > import Adafruit_CharLCD as LCD > > > # Raspberry Pi pin configuration: Ah, it's an RPi with Adafruit. That's the same library that my brother uses. I don't know much of the details, but in case it's helpful, here's the code that currently runs his s

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread Rhodri James
On 26/09/2019 11:58, RobH wrote: Thanks, but was is Python REPR. DL was referring to the interactive program you get when you type "python" at a Linux or Windows command prompt. Here's an example, copied from my Linux box: rhodri@scrote:~$ python Python 2.7.15+ (default, Jul 9 2019, 16:51

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
On 26/09/2019 11:08, DL Neil wrote: On 26/09/19 9:14 PM, RobH wrote: I have some sample/demo python code for scrolling and outputting text onto a 16x2 lcd display. I would like to put my own message or text outputting to the lcd on 2 lines. I have tried using lcd.message('my message',1) and

Re: NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread DL Neil via Python-list
On 26/09/19 9:14 PM, RobH wrote: I have some sample/demo python code for scrolling and outputting text onto a 16x2 lcd display. I would like to put my own message or text outputting to the lcd on 2 lines. I have tried using lcd.message('my message',1) and lcd.message('my message', 2), but the

NEWBIE: how to get text onto 2 lines on a 16x2 lcd display

2019-09-26 Thread RobH
I have some sample/demo python code for scrolling and outputting text onto a 16x2 lcd display. I would like to put my own message or text outputting to the lcd on 2 lines. I have tried using lcd.message('my message',1) and lcd.message('my message', 2), but the output says: TypeError: message