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Nextion Displays and the ESP8266
So a parcel arrived for me this morning in the post. A Nextion display. And what is that, you may well ask? Think of something like a thermostat or really any home control situation, at some point you...
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Raspberry Pi Serial and Node-Red issues
SOLVED: Node-Red serial I/O Looks simple doesn’t it – tie RX and TX together on your Raspberry Pi and press the button – text comes out of the other end – except that it doesn’t. More likely the Pi...
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Nextion Talking Thermostat
Yes, I changed the title. As often happens with these things, I got carried away. The Nextion display is a touch-sensitive intelligent display. Essentially, you buy the display and you program it with...
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Some thoughts on Node Red variables
In learning how to use Node-Red I’ve changed my coding countless times as I’ve found better ways to do things. Please note that in 2017, the way I use global variables here is out of date. It still...
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Nextion and ESP8266
Ever since I fell in love with the little Nextion displays I’ve been thinking about a little ESP8266 board to go with them – well, I’ve been beaten to it. Today I received in the post a little box from...
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Enter the Nextion 7” Display
In previous blog items I’ve mentioned the Nextion displays. These are a fairly unique product in that they offer a simple to use LCD touch display which works serially – and hence are not tied to any...
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The Nextion Experiment
Our latest experiment! The board you see to the right should be with us in a couple of weeks. This little number will sit on the back of a Nextion board, from the smallest to the largest without...
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UI Update
I’ve been busily beavering away at a commercial project for the last couple of weeks but that ends at the weekend and I hope to soon have some more reviews of new and interesting products for you...
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Wifi Nextion
Regular readers will remember me ranting about a little board we were making to fit on the back of a Nextion to make it wireless. Well yesterday was a very productive day – the boards came back from...
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Nextion WIFI Touch Display
This award-winning project ** is a development of previous (home control 2016) work on the Nextion touch serial displays and offers a WIFI-controlled (MQTT) touch display which can be used with the...
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esp8266 Annual Awards
Just a note to say THANK YOU to everyone who voted for the Nextion Wifi Touch Display over at esp8266.com in their first annual competition. I just found out this morning that we won second prize,...
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New PCB
After a slight hiccup with the new board (LED track missing) here’s the new board – link for PCB here – as you can see, Aidan has made several improvements – smaller buttons, connector for DHT22 etc,...
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Nextion Update
As you may know the home control software can work with Nextion displays and there is a project on the blog on that subject – I note that one or two people are having issues here so rather than reply...
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Big Nextion
Quite a while ago now I did a project based on the little Nextion displays, resistive touch-LCD displays which run on serial commands and come with an editor to make simply touch displays for even the...
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