UNO Monitor
UNO Monitor is my first attempt at prototyping an Arduino UNO based LCD and LED external display with IR remote controller.
Requirements
Hardware
- Ardurino UNO
- LCD1602 LCD module
- 10k Potentiometer
- Max7219 LED dot matrix module
- IR reveiver module /w remote
Software
- Latest Arduino (v1 or v2) IDE
- Linux Bash (not tested on WSL/WSL2)
Headers
Liquid Crystal library LedControl library IRremote library
Pin Outs
LCD Pinout:
- LCD RS pin to digital pin 12
- LCD Enable pin to digital pin 11
- LCD D4 pin to digital pin 5
- LCD D5 pin to digital pin 4
- LCD D6 pin to digital pin 3
- LCD D7 pin to digital pin 2
- LCD R/W pin to ground
- LCD VSS pin to ground
- LCD VCC pin to 5V
- 10K resistor:
- ends to +5V and ground
- wiper to LCD VO pin (pin 3)
LED Pinout:
- LED DataIn(DIN) to digital pin 10
- LED LOAD(CS) to digital pin 9
- LED CLK to digital pin 8
- LED VSS pin to 5V
- LED GND to ground
IR Pinout
- IR Signal to digital pin 13
- IR VSS pin to 5V
- IR GND to ground
Misc
IR Output Schema
Multimedia Controls use single characters to denote which button was pressed:
- P power
- M mute
- m mode
- p pause/play
- b back
- f forward
- e eq
- -- vol down
- ++ vol up
- r return
- u usb scan
- 0 number 0
- 1 number 1
- 2 number 2
- 3 number 3
- 4 number 4
- 5 number 5
- 6 number 6
- 7 number 7
- 8 number 8
- 9 number 9
- R repeat
- Z other button pressed