The Cheap Yellow Display (CYD) aka ESP32-2432S028 is a low-cost device comprised of a ESP32-WROOM equipped with a ILI9431 2.4' Display and a xpt2046 touch pad and some more peripherals. It can be found on AliExpress for 7$ - 15$ depending on the seller and available promotions.
This repository is about running LVGL under Miropython firmware on the cheap yellow display. This setup enables the use of Thonny to create and debug programms easily. The CYD is ideal for small IOT projects and LVGL provides a convenient solution to create user interfaces.
The demo programms demonstrate the following functions of lvgl on CYD(2):
- simple demo with buttons and callback functions
- using CYD2 in portrait mode
- loading a png image
- loading a custom text font
- loading a custom icon font
- advanced demo with multiple screens, a chart with data imported from a .csv file and asyncio usage
Two similar versions of CYD are available. The first version has one USB port (i call this "CYD") and the second version features two USB ports (i call this "CYD-2"). Although the remaining components are identical, there is a difference in the display drivers color management.
After getting CYD2 to work with standard MPY firmware and the corresponding drivers, I figured that the display driver is slow and has very limited capabilities for use.
A prebuild version of the lvgl firmware 8.3.6. for CYD is provided for download by Stefan Scholz. Furthermore, a modified xpt2046 driver is required and it is available for download on the same site. I further modified the driver to support portrait mode.
The prebuild version of the MPY-LVGL firmware and the modified xpt2046 driver need to be downloaded from the aforementioned site. I didn't upload them since I don't hold the copyright.
When using LVGL on CYD2, colormode=ili9XXX.COLOR_MODE_RGB needs to be set during initialization of the display driver (thanks to Stefan Scholz for the help).
If you use the normal CYD, just remove this parameter from display initialization in the display_driver.py file.
disp = ili9XXX.ili9341(clk=14, cs=15, dc=2, rst=12, power=23, miso=12, mosi=13, width = 320, height = 240,
rot = 0xC0, colormode=ili9XXX.COLOR_MODE_RGB, double_buffer = False, factor = 16)Several demos can be found in the /demo-lvgl folder. Flash the prebuild firmware with esptool.py and upload the content of the /demo-lvgl folder to your CYD.
The modified xpt2046 driver is included in the lib folder. Display and touchscreen are initialized in the display_driver.py file in the lib folder.
The demo programms demonstrate the following functions of lvgl on CYD(2):
- simple demo with buttons and callback functions
- using CYD2 in portrait mode
- loading a png image
- loading a custom text font
- loading a custom icon font
- advanced demo with multiple screens, a chart with data imported from a .csv file and asyncio usage
The standard release of ESP32 MPY-Firmware can be installed on the CYD-2 as described here.
The ILI9341 driver and the xpt2046 driver can be found in the /demo_no_lvgl folder.
During display initialization in pure Micropython, bgr-mode needs to be disabled:
Display(self.spi_display, dc=Pin(2), cs=Pin(15), rst=Pin(15), width = 320, height = 240, bgr = False)A working demo and the drivers can be found in the /demo_no_lvgl folder.
Draw functions can be used and touch actions can be assigned to multiple areas on screen in the demo programm.