On 15/03/16 20:08, Andy Carter wrote:
> On Tuesday 15 Mar 2016 19:25:04 Johan Ström wrote:
> Thanks for the reply.
>
>> first of all I would try with the latest release of OWFS.
>> Both 2.8p15 and 2.9p8 are pretty old (May 2015, Oct 2014).
> I realise they are quite old having looked around a lot in the last few days
> but 2.9p8 is the latest we have in current raspbian/debian stable release :\
>
>> 3.1p1 is the latest release version from January 2016.
> As mentioned 3.1p1-2 is available as armhf build and installs/runs on my Pi2
> but gives the same result as 2.9p8 ie. missing character etc,
Doh, sorry.
>> I have no idea about what is available for RPi though. You may have to
>> build yourself, but search the owfs-developers archives first!
> I assume the debian 3.1p1-2 should be close enough to the current/latest
> release to prove something is wrong somewhere, otherwise I could make an
> amateur attempt at building from source - but that may mean manually replacing
> binaries in their debianised positions.
Between 2.8p15 (6df9cf6d15b7d2aa73edfcdb5a64b0e8df13eaad) and 2.9p8 
(ef28fa555bf5371c30f951cf8df3a25de9c67a98) there has been a lot of 
changes, but none at all which are specific to the LCD interface (or at 
least of any importance, from what I can see).
Since 3.1p1 there haven't been any changes which would fix this issue 
(yet), so trying current HEAD from git would not fix it.

One thing you could do is to try each version after 2.8p15 
(https://sourceforge.net/projects/owfs/files/owfs/), to identify in 
which version it broke. You should be able to build from source without 
have to overwrite binaries (just skip install and run from src dir).
>
> I am rather surprised there have been no other reports on the list up to now
> if something is broken. This LCD is quite often used in EU I believe - from
> posts in the fhem forum it works as expected with USB/serial host adapters.
>
> I suppose there could be an issue with the Pi host adapter but it works with
> everything else and using 2.8p15 the LCD is fine. (I even tried reducing i2c
> baudrate in case there was an issue there but no improvement)
If you *do* have another adapter, you could try. It would at least help 
pinpoint the error. But yes, if it worked with 2.8p15 it "should" work 
with later as well.

Regards
Johan

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