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Andrew_G
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Posted: 12:24am 22 Aug 2026

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Hi all,
Am I doing something wrong?
After an absence of nearly four years I'm easing myself back into MMBasic and PicoMites.
I can't seem to be able to turn off the LCD being used as a Console (I have MMCC connected for that). I'm issuing 'OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE' from the command line but it seems to not work and doesn't show up in the OPTION LIST.
I noticed that others were having the same issue but can't see the resolution nor if it was addressed in ver 6.03. I'm having trouble keeping up ...

My option list is below.

Cheers,

Andrew

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> option list
PicoMite MMBasic RP2350A V6.02.01
OPTION SYSTEM SPI GP18,GP19,GP16
OPTION SYSTEM I2C GP2,GP3
OPTION AUTORUN ON
OPTION FLASH SIZE 4194304
OPTION COLOURCODE ON
OPTION CPUSPEED (KHz) 200000
OPTION LCDPANEL ILI9488, RLANDSCAPE,GP15,GP14,GP13,GP20
OPTION GUI CONTROLS 62
OPTION TOUCH GP12,GP11
GUI CALIBRATE 0, 220, 206, 1285, 878
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6.0201
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phil99

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Posted: 01:25am 22 Aug 2026

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The current firmware is PicoMite MMBasic V6.03.01 RP2350A (loading that over V6.02.01 may erase options, program and A: so back it all up)

Quite a while ago Peter made a change that sends all error messages to any attached screen even if OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE has been entered. This was so errors could be seen on systems not connected to a terminal. That may make it look like the LCD panel is the console.

OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE not showing up in OPTION LIST is normal.
To see if it is in effect try OPTION DISPLAY rows, cols (eg using 50 for rows and 150 for cols) If this works without error then the LCD panel probably isn't being used as the console as those values should be beyond what a LCD panel uses for the console.

Edit.
As OPTION LCDPANEL NOCONSOLE is the default for LCD panels, when OPTION LCDPANEL CONSOLE is set it shows up in OPTION LIST. The absence of it in your OPTION LIST indicates the LCD is not the console.
Edited 2026-08-22 12:03 by phil99

Andrew_G
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Posted: 04:57am 22 Aug 2026

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Hi Phil,
Thanks for that.
OPTION DISPLAY works so I will just ignore the error message(s) on the LCD - I see Peter's logic.

Regards,

Andrew

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