Recent changes to bugs

I do not receive the validation email

Fran — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:07:46 -0000

hi , i do not receive the validation email in the official forum (lcdsmartie.org), i need it to download a plugin (i want download volume7). thanks you

CrystalFontz 635 dont works

triulzi — Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:44:59 -0000

dear all, hope for help
try with actual version to get the crystal fontz display 635 USB working but no chance, just can change the brightness and type key but can´t read anything within the display.

will be great to get your help there
thanks in advance

Folding module no longer works

personwholives — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 04:56:01 -0000

It appears to be a url change. This should be a trivial fix. I may do it myself, once I finish my system setup.

Corrected url: http://fah-web.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=userpage&username=

Coding error,bug?

gyf — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 05:23:49 -0000

I'm from China. I found a problem with LCD_Smartie v5.4 and later in Chinese language displaying.
A Chinese characters are coded with two bytes that are greater than 0x80. LCD_Smartie seems not to be adapted to it.
eg, if a character code contains 0xb0 then lcd_smartie will transfer 0x20 instead of 0xb0 to the LCD and cause display error.
I wonder if it is a bug or just a common problem for ASCII coding softwares.

P.S. Is there any way than I can write LCD drivers myself? I'm not willing to submit a Feature Request.

Save to Config.ini - problem

mirek26355 — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:29:38 -0000

I see that, when i try set some text with national chars (polish characters WIN1250) - have i problem witch char(191) 'ż'. This char is saved by LCDSmartie to config.ini as '?' !!! When i change manualy with Notepad.exe in config.ini this '?' up to char(191) - all work's good. Smartie when starts read this char(191) as char(191). But when i change little this text - smartie make save to ini file and - one more change char(191) up to '?'

it's some bug - i think

No support for USBTiny IR + LC USB adapter

Jean-Philippe CIVADE — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:47:56 -0000

I've written a driver for "USBtiny LIRC compatible IR receiver and LCD controller" from http://www.xs4all.nl/~dicks/avr/usbtiny/index.html.

It have been tested on 1x16, 1x20, 2x16, 2x20, 2x24 & 4x20 HD44780 based LCD displays.

It requires libusbWIN32 (http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/)

This job have been done on V5.4.1 Beta (latest developpement release). Also based on LCD2USB code. Have been compiled on [MinGW+Eclipse] latest version; Binary dll and source code is included on irlcd.lcdsmartie.zip joined to this post.

Ampersand (&) doubled on emulated preview

mattcro — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 11:14:44 -0000

Smartie 5.4.1 beta (5.4.1.7) bug:

The ampersand character "&" is displayed twice on the emulated preview window when it occurs once in a screen. For example, "Hello&Goodbye" would be displayed as "Hello&&Goodbye".

This doubling does not occur on a real LCD or on the "Desktop" driver output. It seems to only be the & character that is doubled.

This also occurs on 5.4b3 (5.4.0.3) and 5.4rc2 (5.4.0.5).

I get jgarbled text too!

GLO — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 15:08:21 -0000

my HTPC is a Silverstone LC03v, Asus P4P800 e-deluxe mobo and have the same ongoing problem. Im using v5.4

It will work for a while before getting garbled text.

It can be accelerated by loading an intensive program i have notice.

I have even fitted a Magnetic Ferro-core to eliminate any local RF interferance to no avail.

Please advise what else i can try?

Thanks in advance.

memory overflow ?_?

gab — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:40:35 -0000

Hi,
thank you for this wonderful tool!
I have an Antec Fusion (a pc cabinet) with an oem version of Imon 2x16 display.
(this is realesed with an utility VFD.exe (see on Antec website).

After some hours VFD hangs the network status :
it can display all info but after some hours network status is hidden.

And the same with your utility.

(asrocknf7g,4800x2,2gbram)
Can be a buffer problem?

Shutdown message bugs

mattcro — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 11:29:11 -0000

LCD Smartie 5.4.1 on Matrix Orbital, WinXP SP2 32bit

When editing the shutdown message, you cannot use the up/down arrow keys to navigate between the lines - this causes a crash. Using the arrow keys to jump up and down a line when editing the screen content works fine. It would be nice to have the same up/down line editing facility in the shutdown message editor.

If spaces are inserted at the start of a line in the shutdown message to centre/right justify the message on a display, the spaces are removed when Smartie is restarted and the shutdown message viewed in the configuration window.

The first time Smartie is shut down/suspended after adding the spaces, the message is displayed as desired. On subsequent restarts/shutdowns the message is displayed without the spaces even though the configuration file still has the spaces correct. (Config file is only written after OKing the config window?)

The padding spaces are literal text and do not constitute external plugin calls, so it would seem reasonable to preserve the exact text (don't trim any padding spaces) in the shutdown message.