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Turns out, the bad electrical connection was exactly the problem. I took Garzlok's suggestion and soldered a set of female headers to the 8266, popped it onto the PCB male headers, and the problem was immediately solved. Your project is really great Thorrak, but even better is the way you guys...

I haven't soldered it yet. I wanted to make sure that the unit was working. I've had issues before where an ESP unit was no good. I wanted to make sure that everything was working before I made it permanent, or had to desolder so I could replace the ESP. I suppose that I can do the soldering...

Yes, This is the board I'm using. I had PCBway assemble the components as well, so there is less of a chance that there is any error due to bad soldering.

I did check the contrast. The photo I attached is what I get if I turn the contrast up. Lowering contrast simply makes the white blocks fade out. I don't have a schematic or files for the LCD board. It is this item from AliExpress...

I am having difficulty getting an LCD screen to work with my nascent setup. I am using a Fermentrack installation in a virtual machine running Ubuntu Server 18.04. I have an ESP 8266 attached to Justin Angevaare's PCB running as the controller that is properly flashed and recognized by the...