Feature Request: Add Support for Lilygo T-Pager

[nasiralamreeki]

Please add initial support for Lilygo T-Pager

[andreyl9]

When you planned to add support of MUI in LilyGo T-Pager, nativa firmware very ugly and unfunctional on standalonne device

[ndoo]

+1 and there was some work done here:
https://github.com/Kate-hey/firmware-meshtastic
https://github.com/Kate-hey/device-ui

I tried to rebase everything to master/HEAD on both but got crashes on the ESP32 (likely null pointer dereference but did not debug further).

[ndoo]

+1 and there was some work done here: https://github.com/Kate-hey/firmware-meshtastic https://github.com/Kate-hey/device-ui

I tried to rebase everything to master/HEAD on both but got crashes on the ESP32 (likely null pointer dereference but did not debug further).

This is running Kate-hey’s release.

[lim3soft]

tested Kate-hey's release, impressive, it brings back my passion on my t-pager, after some test, i found the keyboard back LED features has been missing compared to base UI (used to be left shift+space) will trigger backled . the scrolling wheel same as based UI, haven't get fix yet, it always skipped wheel.

[ndoo]

@mverch67 what actually needs to be done? Can we buy you a device if it's too much trouble to explain it to those who want to see it through?

[mverch67]

There is ongoing refactoring work separating the business logic from the view in several plugable modules. This allows to reuse the plugin for any resolution/view which makes it relatively easy to add a new view for a certain desired resolution.

[ndoo]

Hi there @mverch67

Sorry to bother you. I have a very nicely working fork based on the pre-refactor work here: https://github.com/Meshtastic-Malaysia/device-ui/tree/tlora-pager-tft-pluginbased

But that's not the important part… I just wanted to let you know that I intentionally had various features and fixes intentionally separated into commits that are easily cherry-picked --> https://github.com/Meshtastic-Malaysia/device-ui/commits/tlora-pager-tft-pluginbased/

Possibly useful:

• 8dc6f8a Move keyboard backlight step cycling to I2CKeyboardInputDriver base class
• c1f093b Implement TLoraPagerKeyboardInputDriver with TCA8418 hardware init
• 970d7c4 Add RotaryEncoderInputDriver with sym+scroll support
• 060f2fb Allow overlay panels to be dismissed via encoder or keyboard
• f302de3 Fix double-registration of TCA8418-based keyboard driver subclasses
• 724b8a6 Add thread-safe display wake request mechanism

Not useful because of ongoing refactor work:

• 62201a5 Implement TFTView_480x222 as TFTView_320x240 subclass with encoder navigation
• c4f5332 Update generated UI assets for T-Lora Pager 480x222 display
• ea80a81 Add generated UI assets for T-Lora Pager 480x222 display
• a4767df Add EEZ Studio project for T-Lora Pager 480x222 display

If you have time would appreciate if you find any of the commits useful, I could cherry-pick them into a separate PR.

[drveni]

+1 and there was some work done here: https://github.com/Kate-hey/firmware-meshtastic https://github.com/Kate-hey/device-ui
I tried to rebase everything to master/HEAD on both but got crashes on the ESP32 (likely null pointer dereference but did

I managed to find the file and installed it.
It's .18. It works and is promising. It just has a bug. The keyboard backlight is constantly lit and drains the battery quickly. Where can I report this bug? And has a .20 version been released for that by any chance? I don't see anywhere that it can be turned off.

[drveni]

tested Kate-hey's release, impressive, it brings back my passion on my t-pager, after some test, i found the keyboard back LED features has been missing compared to base UI (used to be left shift+space) will trigger backled . the scrolling wheel same as based UI, haven't get fix yet, it always skipped wheel.

yes this LED becklight is constantly on and it's irritating.
and the wheel skips.
i also have a problem with the battery display. it's not accurate at all. tried to fix it with ADC but it's not ok.
I hope a fix for this comes out soon.

[nasiralamreeki]

@mverch67 can we get Kate Hey's work merged into Meshtastic? This MUI is essential for the pager

[nasiralamreeki]

@ndoo can you try and get your work into Meshtastic?