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Can I control the backlight of an I2C LCD display?

Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 16:00
by 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

Re: Can I control the backlight of an I2C LCD display?

Posted: 25 Nov 2016, 21:01
by papperone
rhannink wrote: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...

Re: Can I control the backlight of an I2C LCD display?

Posted: 26 Nov 2016, 15:10
by 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