. . "control the backlight or backlight brightness from the serial interface like many other intelligent boards haveIt runs a slow baud rate and does not seem to have the ability to change it.It is missing the ability to define custom characters, It is missing LCD pan/scroll modes.In terms of LCD support using a ready made backpack, for the money, i2c (PCF8574) based backpacks are a very good value.The" . .