ssd1306 VS Adafruit_SSD1306

The solution was an alternative library (https://github.com/lexus2k/ssd1306) which I found through here. It just needed wired to the default pins. Got a lot more to do with the black pill, group project for a prototype ECG

Check out this library: https://github.com/lexus2k/ssd1306 It has suppot for rendering menus. Here is an example sketch with menus: https://github.com/lexus2k/ssd1306/blob/master/examples/direct_draw/menu_demo/menu_demo.ino

You can compare it with Adafruit's Library

I'm building a travel router with OpenWRT on a spare Pi 3B+ and I want to add an SSD1306 based oled display plus a shutdown button but both of them require the RPi.GPIO library.

The selection is important. Provision of details is also important. which is why I ask you to supply the code you are actually using (formatted text) - how can we possibly know that the location you found an example program (or the library) is the same one that we find online and thus the example is the same? This is highlighted by the fact that the name of the program you are using is similar to but not the same as the ones in what looks like the official Adafruit github repository https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't the point is that this ambiguity can easily be resolved if you provide the code you are using.

Is the line (36 here) that I'm focusing on. In the original example, 'PB4, PA8' are replaced with '&Wire', to use the wire.h library default pins on the board. I've tried a fair few combinations of pins and references in the program, which is otherwise unmodified apart from the lines referring to using the serial port to talk to the computer being removed (lines 61 through 67), as the DFU bootloader can't talk using serial (as I have rather time consumingly learned already).

Here is the test sketch on GitHub for the library I used.

I used adafruit ssd1306 library to control the display, donut rendering was written myself and based on the math outlined here, mostly the math around the rotation matrices. (I didn't implement the z-buffer / lighting code)

Nice I got it fixed with my first open source contribution: https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306

#include //library for transceiver (nrf24l01+ PA+LNA) https://github.com/nRF24/RF24 #include #include #include //library for multiplexer (74HC4067DB) https://github.com/stechio/arduino-ad-mux-lib using namespace admux; #include //library for display (SSD1306 128x64) https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306 #include //library for I2C const int sig = A3; //signal pin const int s0 = 2; //address pin 0 const int s1 = 3; //address pin 1 const int s2 = 4; //address pin 2 const int s3 = 5; //address pin 3 const int up1pin = 1; //foward left motor const int down1pin = 0; //backwards left motor const int up2pin = 3; //foward right motor const int down2pin = 2; //backwards right motor const int modifierpin = 4; //pwm speed modifier const int trimmerpin = 5; //pwm trimmer const int navlightpin = 6; //navigation lights const int intlightpin = 7; //interior lights const int extlightpin = 8; //exterior lights const int camerapin = 9; //fpv camera const int autoModepin = 10; //autonomous mode const int CE = 9; //radio CE pin const int CSN = 10; //radio CSN pin const byte address[5] = "00001"; //pipe address float latFromSerial; //parsed lattitude from serial input float lonFromSerial; //parsed longitude from serial input float batteryVoltage; //calculated battery voltage float batteryPercentage; //estimated battery charge int timer; //millis timer const int waypointSize = 50; //number of waypoints const PROGMEM float waypoint[waypointSize][2] = { //waypoints for autoMode() {51.966571, 6.2743379}, {51.966772, 6.2744777}, {51.96699149689901, 6.274366197893084}, {51.9671527562416, 6.274120865412113}, {51.96729645199409, 6.273423270736089}, {51.96743080331666, 6.272665240634041}, {51.96754042621848, 6.271857581899409}, {51.96776236209548, 6.270915330645548}, {51.96798193464908, 6.270221004668555}, {51.96828516667115, 6.269413032485236}, {51.96872940066316, 6.268397202672209}, {51.9690764880844, 6.267825125563484}, {51.96951599079974, 6.267264642338533}, {51.97011340024988, 6.266554277598022}, {51.97066084143675, 6.265542763068586}, {51.97101162702417, 6.264465224751552}, {51.97133799766154, 6.263262306712254}, {51.97164036068298, 6.262353231049387}, {51.97207885573615, 6.261205467922246}, {51.97247264722145, 6.260387048788263}, {51.9730446081463, 6.259285804638093}, {51.97348333946684, 6.258252773125921}, {51.97383500264349, 6.257083089055559}, {51.97411491189212, 6.255751674816601}, {51.97421125024911, 6.254641997085617}, {51.97428144275973, 6.253337927743205}, {51.97438642575778, 6.252258957953291}, {51.97461230120062, 6.251185555711}, {51.97496391672023, 6.250073663806153}, {51.97535356652884, 6.249136612734796}, {51.97593199219659, 6.247849009012851}, {51.97673996614692, 6.246219928264511}, {51.97759975319016, 6.244774079377116}, {51.97970812227523, 6.24269840869726}, {51.98056951741261, 6.241148196857345}, {51.98138148466968, 6.238582344717527}, {51.98226488661611, 6.236909516229776}, {51.9828880442564, 6.236150123494202}, {51.98356664827293, 6.235581737840659}, {51.9846292540927, 6.235086763643169}, {51.98620084359441, 6.234541602496764}, {51.9869680375904, 6.233970146843246}, {51.9884155464398, 6.232522126238424}, {51.98950934373955, 6.231079775783453}, {51.99067711020479, 6.229346290429132}, {51.99142243067518, 6.228071305330573}, {51.99218280844037, 6.226417272538562}, {51.99276345055314, 6.224660968088269}, {51.9928317367713, 6.22340383146351}, {51.99303408040588, 6.222658471539628}, }; int waypointCounter = 0; struct values{ //structure for control values bool up1; bool down1; bool up2; bool down2; int trimmer; int modifier; bool navlight; bool intlight; bool extlight; bool camera; bool autoMode; float targetLat; float targetLon; }; struct info{ //structure for answer from boat int autoMode; int battery; int boatHeading; float boatSpeed; int targetDistance; int targetHeading; }; struct values control; //control values struct info answer; //answer from boat Mux mux(Pinset(s0, s1, s2, s3)); //multiplexer object Adafruit_SSD1306 display(128, 64, &Wire, -1); //display object RF24 radio(CE, CSN); //wireless object void setup() { radio.begin(); //start radio service as transmitter radio.setPALevel(RF24_PA_MIN); //transmission power radio.setDataRate(RF24_250KBPS); //data rate radio.enableAckPayload(); //enable ack payloads radio.setRetries(5,5); //delay, count radio.openWritingPipe(address); //set pipe address radio.stopListening(); //stop listening Serial.setTimeout(10); //set timeout for waiting for incoming data Serial.begin(115200); //set serial baudrate if(!display.begin(SSD1306_SWITCHCAPVCC, 0x3C)) { Serial.println(F("SSD1306 allocation failed")); for(;;); // Don't proceed, loop forever } delay(2000); //allow startup of display display.clearDisplay(); //clear the display display.setTextSize(1); //standard 1:1 pixel scale display.setTextColor(WHITE); //set white text display.cp437(true); //use full 256 char 'Code Page 437' font control.targetLat = 51.966451; //default target lattitude control.targetLon = 6.274279; //default target longitude } void loop() { if(millis() - timer >= 100){ //activate every 100 milliseconds timer = millis(); //new timestamp mux.signalPin(sig, INPUT_PULLUP, PinType::Digital); //read all digital switches control.up1 = !mux.read(up1pin); control.down1 = !mux.read(down1pin); control.up2 = !mux.read(up2pin); control.down2 = !mux.read(down2pin); control.navlight = !mux.read(navlightpin); control.intlight = !mux.read(intlightpin); control.extlight = !mux.read(extlightpin); control.camera = !mux.read(camerapin); control.autoMode = !mux.read(autoModepin); mux.signalPin(sig, INPUT, PinType::Analog); //read the analog potentiometers control.modifier = mux.read(modifierpin); control.trimmer = mux.read(trimmerpin); /* if(Serial.available()){ //get target location from serial input latFromSerial = Serial.parseFloat(); //read lattitude lonFromSerial = Serial.parseFloat(); //read longitude if(latFromSerial != 0) //only non zero values control.targetLat = latFromSerial; if(lonFromSerial != 0) //only non zero values control.targetLon = lonFromSerial; } */ control.targetLat = waypoint[waypointCounter][0]; //set target waypoint lattitude control.targetLon = waypoint[waypointCounter][1]; //set target waypoint longitude if(answer.autoMode == 1 && waypointCounter < waypointSize-1) //set next waypoint waypointCounter++; if(control.autoMode && control.camera) //if autoMode is activated use trim potmeter and camera button to override waypoint selection waypointCounter = map(control.trimmer, 0, 1023, 0, waypointSize-1); if(radio.write(&control, sizeof(control))){ //send control values Serial.println(F("Data sent successfully")); if(radio.isAckPayloadAvailable()){ //do we get an answer back? radio.read(&answer, sizeof(answer)); //read answer batteryVoltage = (batteryVoltage+(answer.battery*15.0/1023.0))/2.0; //calculate battery voltage (measured as 1/3th with voltage divider) batteryPercentage = (batteryVoltage-11.5)/(13.0-11.5)*100; //estimate battery charge remaining answerToDisplay(); //put all info on oled display } else{ Serial.println(F("Message received but no answer...")); display.clearDisplay(); //display message for no answer from boat display.setCursor(0, 1); display.print("RC Boat: no answer"); display.display(); } Serial.print((control.targetLat)); Serial.print((" ")); Serial.println((control.targetLon)); } else{ Serial.println(F("Data sending failed")); //display message for no connection to boat display.clearDisplay(); display.setCursor(0, 1); display.print("RC Boat: no contact"); display.display(); } } } void answerToDisplay(){ //function for putting answer from boat on display display.clearDisplay(); display.setCursor(0, 1); display.print("RC Boat: connected!"); display.setCursor(0, 15); display.print("Battery: "); display.print(batteryPercentage, 0); display.print("% "); display.print(batteryVoltage, 1); display.print("V"); display.setCursor(0, 29); display.print("Course: "); display.print(answer.boatHeading); display.print((char)248); display.print(" "); display.print(answer.boatSpeed, 1); display.print("km/h"); display.setCursor(0, 43); display.print("AutoMode: "); if(control.autoMode == 1) display.print(answer.autoMode); else display.print("off"); display.print(" "); display.print(waypointCounter); display.setCursor(0, 57); display.print("Target: "); display.print(answer.targetDistance); display.print("m "); if(answer.targetHeading >= 0) display.print("+"); display.print(answer.targetHeading); display.print((char)248); display.display(); }

That's not an LCD screen, it is an OLED. You'll need to use the SSD1306 library (that is the name of the controller embedded in the screen). https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_SSD1306