kirbyuk / lcd

Simple program for writing to a Raspberry Pi LCD

lcd

Simple program for writing to a Raspberry Pi LCD. It is set up to work with 16x2 LCDs, set up following Adafruit's tutorial.

Usage

Usage is easy enough, but requires root. From the program's own help:

A simple program to output to the 16x2 LCD screen.
Requires root!
	-h				Display this help and exit.
	-1=[string]		Print [string] to the 1st row.
	-2=[string]		Print [string] to the 2nd row.
	-c				Clear the screen.

Building

The program requires the wiringPi library, instructs to install are located on the website. Once installed, building this program is as simple as

make
sudo make install