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calmasacow
Are you using once of the VIKI LCD? how well does it work? Definatley would like to use one of these I dont really see how you can get along without it to be honest.
I had a SainSmart GLCD 12864 (RRD clone) for my 8-bit controller, and wound up hard-wiring it to the Azteeg X5 Mini with some jumper cables. I was hoping that someone would make a daughter board like the one that adapts RAMPS to LCD displays, but it never happened. Since the company that makes the Azteeg also makes the VIKI, there's probably not much hope in ever seeing this adapter directly from them.
I haven't checked the Smoothie site recently, but there used to be lots of cautions about problems with the VIKI on a Smoothieboard that also seemed to carry over the the Azteeg X5 Mini. I'd recommend doing your homework before buying that combo. The GLCD 12864 support seems to work well, with the caveat that some of the Azteeg boards are weak on internal +5V power and the GLCD goes flaky due to low voltage. You can either power it from external +5V, or do like I did and run the Azteeg's +5V off of USB to work around this issue.
Regarding the utility of the LCD, I wouldn't miss it with Smoothieware as much as with Repetier/Marlin. Smoothieware presents the on-board SD card as a USB drive to a connected PC, so my normal routine is to copy the .gcode file to the on-board SD card, open Pronterface, and "@PLAY filename" to kick it off.....