ESP8266 Community Forum

- Fri Oct 02, 2015 5:00 am #30347 Sorry for hijacking the thread. Does someone know it this 256×64 graphic OLED Display http://www.buydisplay.com/default/serial-oled-module-price-3-2-inch-display-256x64-screens-white-on-black can be used with an ESP?

There is even a hookup guide using Arduino and U8glib.h here http://hazymat.co.uk/2015/07/oled-from-buydisplay-com-mats-hookup-guide/.
Any chance at all?

- Mon Oct 05, 2015 10:09 am #30545

Sorry for hijacking the thread. Does someone know it this 256×64 graphic OLED Display http://www.buydisplay.com/default/serial-oled-module-price-3-2-inch-display-256x64-screens-white-on-black can be used with an ESP?

There is even a hookup guide using Arduino and U8glib.h here http://hazymat.co.uk/2015/07/oled-from-buydisplay-com-mats-hookup-guide/.
Any chance at all?

U8glib hasn't been ported to ESP (AFAIK), but if it's similar to Ucglib (most likely), it should be easy. Display has SPI, so pin count not an issue.

- Tue Oct 06, 2015 1:40 am #30628

Sorry for hijacking the thread. Does someone know it this 256×64 graphic OLED Display http://www.buydisplay.com/default/serial-oled-module-price-3-2-inch-display-256x64-screens-white-on-black can be used with an ESP?

There is even a hookup guide using Arduino and U8glib.h here http://hazymat.co.uk/2015/07/oled-from-buydisplay-com-mats-hookup-guide/.
Any chance at all?

U8glib hasn't been ported to ESP (AFAIK), but if it's similar to Ucglib (most likely), it should be easy. Display has SPI, so pin count not an issue.

Those were my findings as well, at least regarding arduino. U8glib has long been ported to nodemcu.
According to this http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=334026.msg2361385#msg2361385 and this http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=334026.msg2340056#msg2340056 post porting will not be that easy. And a port is not exprected in the near future (though this was 2 month ago).

Maybe I'll try the LUA path. Would be a bummer though, since I use Arduino for several other project.

EDIT:
Forum member winneymj wrote some code for interfacing with the display https://bagaloozy.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/cutting-the-cord-epg-rethinking-the-display-size-part-5/ and https://github.com/winneymj/ESP8266_SSD1322.

- Tue Oct 06, 2015 6:28 am #30647 Haven't read those posts, but if you look at diffs of what I did for Ucglib, same should work for U8glib. Also, igrr has has just committed some changes that should make (most of) the patch to Arduino unnecessary, so now should be even easier.

U8glib hasn't been ported to ESP (AFAIK), but if it's similar to Ucglib (most likely), it should be easy. Display has SPI, so pin count not an issue.

Those were my findings as well, at least regarding arduino. U8glib has long been ported to nodemcu.
According to this http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=334026.msg2361385#msg2361385 and this http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=334026.msg2340056#msg2340056 post porting will not be that easy. And a port is not exprected in the near future (though this was 2 month ago).

Maybe I'll try the LUA path. Would be a bummer though, since I use Arduino for several other project.

EDIT:
Forum member winneymj wrote some code for interfacing with the display https://bagaloozy.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/cutting-the-cord-epg-rethinking-the-display-size-part-5/ and https://github.com/winneymj/ESP8266_SSD1322.