Watchy remote screen

This is a PoC / dev tool for playing with the Watchy's e-ink screen from a browser.

It is not meant as a finished product (very few safety checks, no auth, hacky code, etc...).

Setup

• Clone this repository

• In src/main.ino set WIFI_SSID and WIFI_PASS to your wifi credentials

• Run pio run - it will fail but it will download dependencies

• Patch .pio/libdeps/esp32dev/GxEPD2/src/GxEPD2_BW.h, add this to a public section of class GxEPD2_BW:

  uint8_t *getBuffer() {
      return _buffer;
  }
  

• You may wish to check platformio.ini to set your serial port and speed and whatnot.

• Upload the firmware:

  pio run -t upload
  pio run -t uploadfs
  

• When the watch reboots it will display its IP address, just visit it with a browser.

  Note: no need to set the IP in the web page (unless you opened the html file another way than from the watch)

Endpoints

• POST /raw: expects a single file in multipart/form-data format of exactly 5000 (200x200/8) bytes. Copies the file into the display buffer and updates the screen.

  eg: curl -F "[email protected]" http://$WATCHY_IP/raw

• GET /fonts: get a comma-separated list of font names acceptable to /drawText

  eg: curl http://$WATCHY_IP/fonts

• POST /drawText: render text on the watchy and update the display. Expects a application/x-www-form-urlencoded body with the following parameters:

  • f: font name
  • t: text string to display
  • x and y: coordinates to render at (in that weird Adafruit GFX format - some issues with y pointing to the top or baseline)
  • c: if non empty and non zero, clear the full screen before drawing the text
  • i: if non empty and non zero, invert colours. If inverted, text is rendered in white, and if clear is requested, clears to black.

  eg: curl -d "f=FreeMonoBold9pt7b&t=hello&x=0&y=50&c=1&i=0" http://$WATCHY_IP/drawText

License

           DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                   Version 2, December 2004
 
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <[email protected]>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
 
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