Boat data monitor - what next.....

[GHA]

Epaper up and running, with it being asleep most of the time it should draw pretty much next to no power ?

 

[vas]

are you serious GHA?
sort out the decimals, align the units and make it presentable please. Ah change font % is awful in this
and on a serious note, any idea if they are planning to get touch enabled epaper screens on the market?
wouldn't mind a couple but would like them to be interactive.

cheers

V.

 

[northwind]

Take a look at the m5 paper display.
M5Paper ESP32 Development Kit (960X540, 4.7
Touch screen epaper built in esp32 and battery.
Otherwise use a nook - android based, epaper dirt cheap on ebay. I use one for basic data presentation of tide data, will boot mine up a take a piccy.

 

[GHA]

are you serious GHA?
sort out the decimals, align the units and make it presentable please. Ah change font % is awful in this
and on a serious note, any idea if they are planning to get touch enabled epaper screens on the market?
wouldn't mind a couple but would like them to be interactive.

cheers

V.

Ain't finished ffs ?? I'm really not bothered by a font and much more impressed by next to zero power consumption
Would be easy to add some buttons, esp32 has capacitive touch already.

 

[GHA]

Take a look at the m5 paper display.
M5Paper ESP32 Development Kit (960X540, 4.7
Touch screen epaper built in esp32 and battery.
Otherwise use a nook - android based, epaper dirt cheap on ebay. I use one for basic data presentation of tide data, will boot mine up a take a piccy.

At that price!! Quick, get out the defibrillator...

 

[vas]

thanks northwind, 85 and out of stock! v.interesting but too expensive for fooling around... Not after a portable device, tried that a few years ago, wasn't really helpful for the way I use the boat.
GHA, what do you mean easy to add buttons, is the display touch "aware" of some sort or not? thought that it's plain display

 

[vas]

ah, and btw, what's that "board" you connected your ethernet and all the jumper wires? is that an ESP in disguise or what?

 

[northwind]

The main one I use is the nook:
Nook Simple Touch Ebook E-Reader Barnes & Noble | eBay
Android based OS so easily hackable.
old but very good and can easily be mounted

 

[GHA]

GHA, what do you mean easy to add buttons, is the display touch "aware" of some sort or not? thought that it's plain display

Display is just a display, but any esp32 pin can be capacitive touch so if really keen you could add some washers under a frame and program a basic menu system controlled by a finger touching the frame.

ah, and btw, what's that "board" you connected your ethernet and all the jumper wires? is that an ESP in disguise or what?

Just rj45 breakout boxes, handy for prototyping , the other end goes into a Nano.

 

[gregcope]

@GHA

Do you have a guide to replicating your thing? Is it strongly tied to your RPI data monitoring thing or is it standalone?

 

[GHA]

@GHA

Do you have a guide to replicating your thing? Is it strongly tied to your RPI data monitoring thing or is it standalone?

I'll stick the code on github when it's sorted, and yes, needs signalk to work though any machine running a signalk server with a usb socket should work.