I have been trying to talk to the serial input of the 7 segment display using the softwareserial library for the Arduino. I keep getting strange results. The digits get display but never in the correct position. The positions change every time. I am also unable to turn on any decimal points.
I know the software serial library has some problems. Is that what’s causing this behavior?
Mine too…!
I used picbasic and a soft serial line :
SerOut PORTB.0 , 84 , [“1234” ]
Everytime I restart the pic the numbers are often in a different place then they should be.
I also put some delays of 500 ms in between the serouts but that would not do the trick.
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I guess since you are also having this problem and you are using a different processor and language that the problem isn’t in my development environment. It must be something on the display board or in our understanding of how it works.