ESP8266 Community Forum

- Sat Jan 30, 2016 9:11 am #39989 The ILI chip can handle much large displays and chinese uses different type of TFT and all are offset at top or bottom (or both), this is obvious, initially I discovered that black are offset in a way and red in another but now it's all mixed so I will change a bit the future version of the library to set the offset inside the sketch, this to avoid change preferences for different displays.
Really happy you like the library and create something useful!

- Sun Jan 31, 2016 1:21 pm #40092 Hi Sumotoy,
Yes, that would be a great idea to allow modifying the TFT type (offset) from the sketch. Maybe directly from the "tft.begin()" subroutine as a parameter? By default, no param could be the RED one, then tft.begin("BLACK") could do the job, this would allow a compatibilty with older sketches...

Nervertheless, the library is already VERY usefull as is, thank you again for the really great job.

Alain

- Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:39 pm #45394 The yellow pin RED PCB strain version it's just spreading the market, it look the same but it's lighter, smaller, have no text on the side of TFT.
It works only in rotation mode 0,1 but NOT in 2,3!
I'm not even sure it uses ILI9163C since it doesn't react at all to 2 initialization commands I'm try to inject.
Some vendors says it's a ST7735, some ILI9163C and ather ILI9165(!).
I will try to figure out what it really is but if you have important projects that uses rotation 2 or 3 please wait until I discover how to deal with this.
I suppose it's a low cost alternative to ILI that uses an unknown chip.

- Tue Apr 12, 2016 9:52 pm #45398 That will be very good for displaying data.

Learning a little more every day.