HiLetgo 2004 20X4 LCD Display LCD Screen Serial with IIC I2C Adapter Yellow Green Color LCD for Arduino Raspberry Pi

Works fine. I did not need, nor want the feature of the IIC board, so I removed it and used the display as a parallel type.

Bought two screens and thought one was not working. HiLetgo was very quick to offer technical assistance. It turns out I just got two screens with different I2C addresses and I was trying to use the same address for both. I am now very happy with both. FYI the addresses for my screens were 0x27 and 0x3f. Or if you are smarter than me you can look up the PCF8574 datasheet and probe pins A0, A1, and A2 to determine exactly what your address is.

It works as expected. Pretty easy to read once you adjust the contrast. Rated at 4 stars because it comes with zero documentation. They do seem to be pretty standard so I was able to get it working using an example for Arduino online.

I bought this display to use in a GPS clock that displays local time and date and UTC time and date. Here are my observations. 1. Its big! I should have read the specs more closely, but its much bigger than I expected. 2. The contrast is OK, but its nothing to write home about. 3. The viewing angle is very small. Once you get about 30-degrees off-axis, the contrast falls off rapidly. You have to be almost dead in front of the display to read it. 4. The default brightness of the backlight is very bright - too bright for me - harsh even. It lights up a room at night. I added a 330-ohm resistor to tone it down a bit. Otherwise, its a standard LCD display, and writing code for it is pretty simple. For what its worth, the hd44780.h display library is MUCH faster than other libraries (such as LiquidCrystal_I2C.h). I highly recommend it. I am undecided if I will use this display in my project. The viewing angle is just so small, and thats not great for a clock. A TFT display can be had for about the same price, and the viewing quality and versatility are much better. That being the case, I would not recommend this display.

It’s great I2C, safe a lot of pins with it

These are nice display modules with 2 wire I2c interface. Display is sharp and bright. Easy to read with or without the backlight. I tried to get a picture but my phone camera did not do it justice.

I received the LCD display like a couple of months ago and its still working and is way better than the led display that comes with the elegoo Arduino kit. also I am a human and also um...I forgot what I was gonna say. OH YEAH to get the library for the display you just look for LiquidCrystal_I2C by Frank de Brabander and you should be good. Again goof luck, this is a good product.

I ordered two, weeks apart, and got two different products. The first one was great, clear, bright, high speed display updates, and good contrast and viewing angle. The second one looked very similar but the display was a little taller, and unfortunately has a spot in the backlight, the display is dim, updates slowly, and the viewing angle is not good. I want another one like the first one. Update: I have purchased three of these now and two are slow and dull with lousy viewing angle and contrast. I want another one of the good ones!!

Nice bright display. Unfortunately it didnt last- it lost most of the characters. Now it is a 2x8 display. I restored the rating to 5 stars because further investigation showed it was an over voltage condition that damaged the display. Would recommend this product over the other sellers because the serial interface is already soldered in place, so saved a few minutes. Plus, a better price.

This works great with the i2clibraries.i2c_lcd class in Python. I tried it on 3.3v, but it needs the 5v. The backlight comes with a jumper cap, but I swapped it for a 10k pot, so now I have brightness control as well (see pic). And, its bigger than you expect, especially after using tiny oleds.