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General E-paper/OLED/LCD signage

Trademark

This is an open source project, but bear in mind you cannot sell boards bearing the Andrews & Arnold Ltd name, the A&A logo, the registered trademark AJK logo, or the GS1 allocated EANs assigned to Andrews & Arnold Ltd.

Buy?

This code works with many E-paper panels, and LC Displays, but I have bought up some really nice 7.5" Waveshare ones on laminated glass with black border, and have them in our shop, with a choice of controllers (this code pre-loaded).

Environmental monitoring

This code also supports a range of sensors listed below, for light, sound, temperature, gas, pressure, etc. These can be used for display but also logging (MQTT) and polling (http). This makes it idea for a display and monitor. The FaikinRemote project has an ideal colour display with many sensors for this purpose.

ESP32-EPD

This uses my ESP32-GFX library and provides a general E-paper, OLED, and LCD, sign with a configurable selection of widgets.

This is the new version of my EPDSign code which had a few options (clock, date, day, wifi and QR, background images, etc). Please upgrade to this as EPD-SIGN is no longer maintained.

This code is much more generic, allowing a number of widgets to be applied to the displayed images one after the other, this allowing the overall image to be constructed to suit any need.

PCBs

A number of PCBs designs are included. The most work on this code as been done using the `EPD75` (mono) display, and the `LCD2` and `LCD24` format colour LCD displays. Other displays simply need work on the GFX library now as needed, but should work with a range of different display types and models quite easily.

LEDs

You can set LED by command/EPD/rgb and a string of LED colour letters.

Override

You can send comamnd/EPD/override with a URL or image file name to override the display for 60 seconds.

Widgets

Each widget has basic settings with type, and position (x/y), and alignment (left/centre/right and top/middle/bottom) and the size of the widget, and, of course a content setting. Some widgets may reference other settings as well in the way they work.

Content

The content for any widget can contain $ expanded fields, this can be $variable or ${variable} if you need letters/etc directly after the expansion, or need to add extra formatting. The variable is a letter and then letters or digits. Use $$ if you want an actual $.

Using ${variable} you can append the variable name with.

• :format for any time based variables, for strftime formatting, e.g. ${TIME:%a %:%M} may show Wed 10:15, and optionally ending with +HHMM or -HHMM or Z to set time zone.
• .fields for any JSON based variables, allows the JSON field, e.g. ${WEATHER.current.condition.code}
• .field:format will allow some formatting of fields from JSON based variables.

Using ${$variable} causes the value for $variable to be checked for any contained $ expansions. Typically used to allow $MQTT... expansions to include $ variables.

Variable	Meaning
TIME	Current time (HH:MM for epaper, HH:MM:SS otherwise)
DATE	Current date YYYY-MM-DD
DAY	Current day, e.g. WEDNESDAY (this is not strftime based)
SEASON	Seasonal character code, e.g. E for Easter - is the primary season code at current time
SEASONS	Seasonal character codes, as occasionally there may be more than one active
COUNTDOWN	Countdown/up from refdate, not a refdate with year 0000 means countdown to date/time specified in current/next year
ID	Device ID
HOSTNAME	Hostname
SSID	Current WiFi SSID (can be configured or use the WiFi settings)
PASS	Current WiFi passphrase (can be configured or use the WiFi settings)
WIFI	QR code formatted current WiFi details $SSID and $PASS info
IPV6	Current main public IPv6 (also $IP)
IPV4	Current IPv4
SUNRISE	Next sunrise (HH:MM), needs poslat and poslon set.
SUNSET	Next sunset (HH:MM), needs poslat and poslon set.
FULLMOON	Next full moon (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM)
NEWMOON	Current new moon (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM), before or after now, changes on next full moon - may be changed some time
MOONPHASEn	Moon phase from 0=full moon, $MOONPHASE is 0 to 359. $MOONPHASEn is 0 to (n-1)
SNMPHOST	Hostname reported from SNMP poll
SNMPDESC	Description reported from SNMP poll
SNMPFBVER	FireBrick version from description reported from SNMP poll
SNMPUPTIME	Uptime reported from SNMP poll
WEATHER	Extract a field from weather api response JSON, suffix :128 finds 64x64 and replaces with 128x128, e.g. https:${WEATHER.current.condition.icon:128}
SOLAR	Extract a field from SolareEdge MODBUS TCP collection generated JSON
MQTTn	Extract a field from JSON payload payload on subscribed MQTT (jsonsub)
API	JSON payload from generic API URL

Note that COUNTDOWN has default formatting but can use a modified strftime formatting. This counts down to 0000-00-00 00:00:00, i.e. month and day from 0 not 1. Also, if a year (%y/%F) is missing it does months beyond 11. Similarly if also no month (%m/%F) the days count as total days. This works all the way to just %S being total seconds. Some assumptions on days in year / month needed in some cases.

Sensors

The code supports a number of sensors which can be configured on I2C (or one wire bus). These provide values as follows as JSON values (also MQTT logged in status). As default field is defined as well, e.g. $MCPA9808.C, or $MCP9808, or $TEMPERATURE.C, or $TEMPERATURE will all give current Celsius temperature if you are using an MCP9808.

Variable	Meaning
MCP9808	C Celsius
TMP1075	C Celsius
SHT40	C Celsius, RH is humidity
DS18B20	[0].C is Celsius for first sensor, [n].serial is serial number of sensor
SCD41	ppm is CO2, ,C is Celsius, RH is humidity
T6793	ppm is CO2
T3902	noise with mean and peak for 1, 10 and 60 second periods
GZP6818D or PRESSURE	hPa is pressure, C is Celsius
VEML6040 or LIGHT	W is white, R is red, G is green, B is blue, values in lux
TEMPERATURE	Picks SCD41, DS18B20, MCP9808 or TMP1075
CO2 or CO2	Picks SCD41 or T6793
HUMIDITY	Picks SCD41
BLE	BLE tracking sensors array (enable BLE to allow a number of sensors to be added)

All sensors are included in MQTT state message, and can be fetched by web from /status.

Buttons

Buttons can be added as inputs, and these are used as HA triggers.

Numeric JSON value formats

Tag	Meaning
digits	Set number of places
digits.	Set total digits (use default places)
0digits.	Set total digits (use default places) but leading zeros
digits.digits	Set total digits and number of places
0digits.digits	Set total digits and number of places but apply leading zeros
k	Divide by 1000
M	Divide by 1000000
m	Multiply by 1000
u	Multiply by 1000000
K	Change Celsius to Kelvin
F	Change Celsius to Fahrenheit
C	Change Fahrenheit Celsius
=n	Set a target value n (digits)
±n	Set a margin for target (default 5)

Setting a target overrides foreground colour to red if over target+margin or blue if below target-margin, else unchanged from settings for widget

Text

This is one of the simplest widgets, and allows simple multi line text to be displayed. The font size defines the text size, with 1 being one pixel per 5x9 matrix image. The system uses a vector based font, and the size has modifers for allowing space below for descenders, and light weight vector lines.

Note that text is normally fixed space font with a small number of exceptions (., :, |, !). Options may be added to force fixed space and maybe allow more proportional spaced characters at some point.

A wide range of accented characters are supported based on Mullard SAA5050 teletext controller fonts with some additional characters. Notably this includes ° to use with °C or °F.

In future I may add red text as an option for KWR displays.

Extra flags can be added to the size.

Flag	Meaning
_	Allow space for descenders
|	Lighter stroke
/	Italic (this is best when using colour displays as anti-aliased)

Blocky

Same as text but blocky (pixel based) characters.

Flag	Meaning
_	Allow space for descenders
|	Smaller spaced out squares
/	Dots not squares

Digits

Display content using classic 7 segment display format.

This is ideal for $DATE and $TIME. For solid colour e-paper, this plots only the segments as black or white (see mask below), no overall background, otherwise the background is plotted as a box like text (unless mask).

Only a single line is handled, and a limited character set:

• 0 to 9 as you would expect as normal 7 segment digits.
• Simple symbols like - and _.
• Some letters, notably for hex A-F as A, b, C, d, E, F. This also helps with temp using C and F.
• Use of . or : after a displayed character causes the previous character to be wider to allow . and : after it. This can follow a space if you needed. This may be tweaked in future.

Whilst vector based text allows any size, the 7 segment logic currently allows sizes up to 20, which allows 2 digits, colon, and 2 digits to just fit within 480 pixels width on a 7.5" e-paper panel in portrait.

Extra flags can be added to the size.

Flag	Meaning
_	Smaller digits after .
|	Smaller digits after :
/	Italic (this is best when using colour displays as anti-aliased)

Note that with _ a trailing C or F is handled as superscript for temperatures.

Image

This can be http:// URL serving a PNG image, or just the end appended to baseurl. It is recommended that this is 1 bit indexed, but can be any valid PNG (memory permitting). It can include alpha channel to control if plotted (cuts at 50%.

The image is typically stored in SD card if present as a backup. If the image is not a URL, then the SD card is checked anyway.

Note, if the image does not end .something (and has no ?) a .png is appended.

In future I hope to isolate black, white, and red for KWR displays.

QR

The content is content of QR code. The size is normally the overall size in pixels, with the QR scaled to fit within that. There is also a tag to say size is pixel size (pixels per QR unit block).

Extra flags can be added to the size. The size is normally total pixel size and QR is largest that can uniformly fit in that size.

Flag	Meaning
_	Size is unit size not overall size
|	Plot without quiet zone
/	Special (non standard) QR with dots - better when larger QR

HLine/VLine

Draws a single pixel horizontal or virtial line based on size and alignment.

Bins

frame

This allows display of bin collection. This is based on a JSON file, the content is the URL to fetch the JSON. A script monmouthire.cgi is defined for now. The size is font size for the bin collection day or week (or TODAY/TOMORROW) which is shown along with icons.

Top level JSON, specifies next bin collection day.

Field	Meaning
baseurl	Base URL for icons, default is system wide base url
cache	Datetime for caching this JSON, default is to clear, or 1 hour from last check
display	Datetime when to display, default 7 days before collect
leds	Datetime for LEDs show, default is 12 hours before collect
collect	Datetime for collection, e.g. Monmouthshire is at 07:00:00 on collection day
clear	Datetime to clear dispaly, default is 12 hours after collect
bins	Array of bin objects for next collection

Bins array has objects, and can have an empty object if needed (useful as arrays cannot have trailing commas).

Field	Meaning
name	Name of bin, used as default if icon cannot be shown - so could be Black, or General, etc.
colour	Colour letter for LEDs
icon	Icon URL for PNG icon, can be tail url from baseurl

Example.

{
	"baseurl":"http://epd.revk.uk",
	"collect":"2025年03月05日 07:00:00",
	"clear":"2025年03月05日 12:00:00",
	"bins":[
		{"name":"RED","colour":"R","icon":"Red.png"},
		{"name":"PURPLE","colour":"M","icon":"Purple.png"},
		{"name":"BLUE","colour":"B","icon":"Blue.png"},
		{}
	]
}

Clock

Simple analogue clock face - default is current time,. but you can specify HH:MM or HH:MM:SS in content, e.g. using $SUNSET etc.

Flag	Meaning
_	Circle around clock and fill background
|	Tick marks on hour
/	Numbers on hour

IR

Infrared remote logic - reporting common IR remote key presses as device automation to HA.

More

More widgets planned, and more $variable planned.

Message

You can send an MQTT command override with a URL/image. This displays an image for a short period (configurable).

You can send an MQTT command message with a message string (see https://gfx.revk.uk/ for details of gfx_message format. This displays a message for a short period (configurable).

Weather

You can set the weather api for use with https://www.weatherapi.com/ this then allows you to access $WEATHER and a weather app field. e.g. ${WEATHER.current.feelslike_c}C or ${WEATHER.current.condition.text}

Sending the command/EPD/weather returns current weather JSON as an info response to help you understand the response fields you can use.

The data requested from the API is forecast, so typically includes a dayforecast, which can be accessed, e.g. ${WEATHER.forecast.forecastday[0].day.maxtemp_c}

Solar

You can set the IP address of your SolarEdge inverter. This uses MODBUS (TCP port 1502) to get key data which is constructed in to a JSON object, with fields such as $SOLAR.power, $SOLAR.today, etc.

Sending the command/EPD/solar returns current solar JSON as an info response to help you understand the response fields you can use. You can set solarlog to log the data received over MODBUS to MQTT.

Align, mask, and invert

For most widgets the x/y and align apply as expected. But there is also a mask/invert setting. It is also possible to set a widget relative to previous widget using a prev setting on the alignment.

For solid colour e-paper, you can invert the plotting and set a mask. Invert simply swaps black/white. Mask means only plot for asserted colour - content of text or white in am image. However, when dealing with an image the mask is not sensible when the PNG image has alpha as that is used as mask. Depending on the display and gfx.invert properties images may need to be inverted.

For anti-aliased displays the options are foreground and background colour. Text and digits plot a solid background box first. If no background set then the screen background is used. If no foreground set a contrast black/white is picked. If you set background and foreground the same this is a mask mode.

Temperature calibration

Temperature is tricky stuff. The actual sensors on the board are very accurate and calibrated, but a key challenge is internal heating and heat from PCB from other components - this means the temperature typically needs some offset applied, and you can only really tell after installing the module, in a case if needed, and running for several minutes to be up to temperature.

For this purpose the on board sensors can have a simple offset added/subtracted to the temperature read, after it is read. For convenience this is in degrees (°C or °F as set).

The most reliable connected sensor is a DS18B20 on a lead as this does not pick up heat from the PCB - do no position above the module to avoid heating by convention. We do not apply an offset to this (let us know if you find a case where that is actually useful). The other reliable sensor is an external BLE sensor - these have such low power usage they do not have internal heating and are also very accurate - again no offset is configurable for these.

The internal sensors (TMP1075 or MCP9808) pick up heat from the PCB and often need several degrees of adjustment. As I say, do this after installing, in case, in position, and running for some time. The pressure sensor also does temperature, but this is right next to the processor, so typically needs way more adjustment.

The SCD41 provides CO2, temperature, and humidity. Whilst the CO2 is not affected by temperature, it does have atmospheric pressure adjustment applied automatically from the on board pressure sensor. However the humidity accuracy is impacted by the temperature. As such the temperature offset is initially set in the SCD41 at boot. Any changes to scd41dt will apply in real time, but it is recommended that you reboot once you are happy with it to ensure humidity is calculated correctly.

Hey, Claude:

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