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Any ideas for how to make LCD more useful? ANY ideas.

Tetris? More gauges? Anything?

LCD touch screen gauges !!!

To me the LCD screens are really only useful during initial bench-test. After that the ECU is in the car, usually hidden away, Information is displayed to me via Tunerstudio.
I prefer solitaire over Tetris- less pressure.

Abricos wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 29, 2018 9:29 pm

LCD touch screen gauges !!!

No, the question is about the existing 20x4 LCD.

Field adjustable parameters with no pc. Things like fan turn on temp, thermal shutdown, tps min max, etc. Aka if at the track it would be handy to be able to change parameters even if you forgot the PC or if the PC cable gets damaged. Or if on an endurance race and you can't spare the weight of a pc.

I would say, plus five spare pins for something really useful? %-)
Correct me if I am wrong, but initially these LCDs were designed to still display the last error code when the board crashes or hangs completely - just to give some hints what goes wrong with it. But now, with some major improvements in stability, with almost no fatal errors (eh?), these displays become less important. may be, adding a second can? (with an option of sending custom messages like with universal gpio logic - ) k-line (I've seen some mid 2000's mercedes cars have can and k-line buses for some reason, although I thought k-line is a thing of real past, like from 90-s)

I'm planning to use the LCD in the car as a dashboard display. Get rid of my clock and put this LCD instead.
It would be useful to display warnings on the LCD for example:
- trigger errors,
- knock events/counts
- AFR warning if mixture too lean or too rich,
- alternator warning if (overcharging?, or not charging?)
- If everything is good, there could be an information "SYSTEM: OK" or something like that
- configurable variables to display like: Intake Air temp, oil press, or any additional sensor.

While button pressed we could have a little menu, to enable some functions or features.
An example retarding ignition timing by a pre-configured value or in other words ALS - Anti Lag system for turbo engines. You could enable or disable this feature from the LCD menu, but configure it in tuner studio or rusEFI console.

Same with anti lag, if it gets finished one day

I have prepared some example screens, see what you all think guys?

While engine running:
While menu button pressed:
And then:

RadMx5 wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 30, 2018 5:09 pm

- If everything is good, there could be an information "SYSTEM: OK" or something like that

Much better would be
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"Proceeding as planed"

Perfect example ... + boost control adjustments ...

Or imagine playing snake while waiting to start the race...

Ever heard of the Nextion displays? They’re cheap touchscreen displays. Would add more usefulness!

@ these are amazing proposals and how did you make these cool pictures?

russian wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 12, 2019 9:20 am

@ these are amazing proposals and how did you make these cool pictures?

Would like to know this also...

I have previously made an arduino based dash using the same 20x4 display taking data from a Wolf ECU via the serial port. It had a few buttons so you could scroll pages and do a few other things... You can squeeze a lot of useful info onto this display but to be useful it should really be mounted where you can see it while you drive. For this reason i think its better having a separate display unit probably connected via canbus




Thread here
http://www.performanceforums.com/forums/showthread.php?67304738-Arduino-Wolf-V500-lap-timer-dash

That would require a separate device (blue-pill based?), and I believe even I'd cope with building such a device (through it might take quite some time ), but only if it displays some data. If it requires control (via the same can-bus), it would need altering rusefi code, so that it could read can data and accept those commands?

Hey!

I have used this: http://avtanski.net/projects/lcd/ kind of show the ideas

NBytevenom wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 25, 2018 8:09 pm

Ever heard of the Nextion displays? They’re cheap touchscreen displays. Would add more usefulness!

Those look pretty nice! Too bad they only have UART connectivity?

https://nextion.tech/intelligent-series-introduction/

What status of lcd support? I see in latest release discovery firmware there is no lcd setting. I am planning to use 20x4 lcd as a additional display at my dashboard.