adafruit.rst

Adafruit CharLCD Plate&Chinese "LCD RGB KEYPAD" shield output driver

This driver works with Adafruit Raspberry Pi character LCD&button shields, as well as with Chinese clones following the schematic (can be bought for 5$ on eBay, typically have "LCD RGB KEYPAD ForRPi" written on them).

If you have a genuine Adafruit board, pass "chinese":false keyword argument to the driver in config.json so that the backlight works right.

Sample config.json section for Adafruit board:

"output":
   [{
     "driver":"adafruit_plate",
     "kwargs":
     {
      "chinese":false
     }
   }]

Sample config.json section for Chinese clone:

"output":
   [{
     "driver":"adafruit_plate"
   }]

Note

Generally, you won't need to edit config.json if you're using this shield because it'll be done automatically by config.sh.

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