Can I control the backlight of an I2C LCD display?

[rhannink]

Hello,

I am using an LCD display with an I2C converter together with ESP Easy. Everything is working fine.
But now I want to ad a proximity sensor which turns on the display when somebody is in front of the display.

Is it possible to switch of the backlight of the display?

Gr. Remco

[papperone]

Hello,

I am using an LCD display with an I2C converter together with ESP Easy. Everything is working fine.
But now I want to ad a proximity sensor which turns on the display when somebody is in front of the display.

Is it possible to switch of the backlight of the display?

Gr. Remco

Sure, you need to connect backlight pin to a GPIO and use rules...

[Jopiek]

Backlight can be switched off by your controller using the following http: command:
http://<ESP IP address>/control?cmd=lcdcmd,off
more info can be found on the espeasy wiki pages.
http://www.letscontrolit.com/wiki/index.php/LCDDisplay