connecting tft lcd touch screen with nodemcu esp8266 in stock

The ILI9341 TFT module contains a display controller with the same name: ILI9341. It’s a color display that uses SPI interface protocol and requires 4 or 5 control pins, it’s low cost and easy to use.

The resolution of this TFT display is 240 x 320 which means it has 76800 pixels. This module works with 3.3V only and it doesn’t support 5V (not 5V tolerant).

The ILI9341 TFT display board which is shown in project circuit diagram has 14 pins, the first 9 pins are for the display and the other 5 pins are for the touch module.

Pins D5 (GPIO14) and D7 (GPIO13) are hardware SPI module pins of the ESP8266EX microcontroller respectively for SCK (serial clock) and MOSI (master-out slave-in).

The first library is a driver for the ILI9341 TFT display which can be installed from Arduino IDE library manager (Sketch —> Include Library —> Manage Libraries …, in the search box write “ili9341” and choose the one from Adafruit).

The ILI9341 TFT display is connected to NodeMCU hardware SPI module pins (clock and data), the other pins which are: CS (chip select), RST (reset) and DC (data/command) are defined as shown below:

Full Arduino code:The following Arduino code is from Adafruit ILI9341 library (graphicstest.ino) with some modifications in order to work with the above circuit diagram.

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Simply put: that TFT requires a lot of GPIO pins - 10 at an absolute bare minimum, but better if you have more available. The ESP8266 doesn"t have many IO pins - and some of them are very sensitive about what they can be connected to without affecting the boot process.

If you are careful with your GPIO selection it may be possible to work with that screen. There are no specific requirements for what pins need to be connected to where (as far as hardware functionality goes), so it"s up to you to find the right combination that doesn"t cripple the boot process (stay away from GPIOs 0, 2 and 15 if you can).

In the previous article (“WiFi OLED Mini Weather Station with ESP8266“) I have used the OLED kit from https://blog.squix.org. And as promised, this time it is about the “ESP8266 WiFi Color Display Kit”:

I had ordered both because I thought that the Color Display kit is needs the other kit as a base. Well, it turned out that both kits work independently. My bad. Actually this is good, as I have now two independent ESP8266 weather stations :-). An addition to that, they can exchange data (e.g. temperature/humidity) with a server, so that makes them a perfect dual weather station.

This time assembling the kit needs basic soldering skills. With the excellent tutorial by Daniel Eichhorn  (https://blog.squix.org/wifi-color-display-kit) this should be a piece of cake. The only consideration is what kind of headers to use. I opted for the ‘larger but flexible’ approach. That way I can separate the boards if needed.

Example code is available on GitHub (https://github.com/squix78/esp8266-weather-station-color). The code is very well documented I had no issues to make all the needed configuration (WiFi SSID and connection settings). After a few  hours I had the ESP8266 weather station up and running in the first prototype of the enclosure:

After a few hours, I have now my second ESP8266 WiFi weather station with touch LCD. It is not looking good and I very much enjoy it. The design is available on Thingiverse (https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2527282).

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As you all know the are a few variants of the 1.8" TFT on the internet. With the genuine Adafruit lcd-s there are usually no problems. But when using fake ones(usually from Aliexpress) you have to make some adjustments.

Bodmers TFT_eSPI library is very awsome and rich funcionality. And the best part is that he made it to handle the pixel offsets depending on wich kind of 1.8" TFT you are using.

Then uncomment the tft height an width. And then in my case(REDTAB) uncomment for eg: #define ST7735_REDTAB. After this save it for the moment and compile sketch and upload to board. To be sure i have defined the parameters in the sketch too.This is a bit long procedure, cause you have to compile and upload the sketch every time to board untill the offset is gone, but it is worth the experimenting. For editing the h. files i strongly suggest Wordpad. Images included.

ILI9341 is a 262,144-color single-chip SOC driver for a-TFT liquid crystal display with resolution of 240RGBx320 dots, comprising a 720-channel source driver, a 320-channel gate driver, 172,800 bytes GRAM for graphic display data of 240RGBx320 dots, and power supply circuit. ILI9341 supports parallel 8-/9-/16-/18-bit data bus MCU interface, 6-/16-/18-bit data bus RGB interface and 3-/4-line serial peripheral interface (SPI). The moving picture area can be specified in internal GRAM by window address function. The specified window area can be updated selectively, so that moving picture can be displayed simultaneously independent of still picture area.

You can find ILI9341-based TFT displays in various sizes on eBay and Aliexpress. The one I chose for this tutorial is 2.2″ length along the diagonal, 240×320 pixels resolution, supports SPI interface, and can be purchased for less than $10.

Note that we will be using the hardware SPI module of the ESP8266 to drive the TFT LCD. The SPI communication pins are multiplexed with I/O pins D5 (SCK), D6 (MISO), and D7 (MOSI). The chip select (CS) and Data/Command (DC) signal lines are configurable through software.

For ILI9341-based TFT displays, there are some options for choosing the library for your application. The most common one is using Bodmer. We will use this library in this tutorial. So go ahead and download the

The library contains proportional fonts, different sizes can be enabled/disabled at compile time to optimise the use of FLASH memory. The library has been tested with the NodeMCU (ESP8266 based).

The library is based on the Adafruit GFX and Adafruit ILI9341 libraries and the aim is to retain compatibility. Significant additions have been made to the library to boost the speed for ESP8266 processors (it is typically 3 to 10 times faster) and to add new features. The new graphics functions include different size proportional fonts and formatting features. There are a significant number of example sketches to demonstrate the different features.

Configuration of the library font selections, pins used to interface with the TFT and other features is made by editting the User_Setup.h file in the library folder. Fonts and features can easily be disabled by commenting out lines.

As mentioned by the author, you need to open the User_Setup.h file inside the main library folder and modify the following two lines to match with our setup.

Now you are all set to try out tons of really cool built-in examples that come with the library. The following output corresponds to the TFT_Pie_Chart example.

My favorite example is TFT terminal, which implements a simple “Arduino IDE Serial Monitor” like serial receive terminal for monitoring debugging messages from another Arduino or ESP8266 board.

The ESP8266 is a well performing microcontroller chip that is fully Arduino compatible. Its WiFi capability makes boards with this chip easy implementable as IOT devices. Here we wire two representative ESP8266 boards: NodeMCU and Wemos D1 mini to a single-row 14-pin header, 320*240 TFT display that uses the four-wire SPI interface.

Here we connect a 320240 ILI9341 TFT display that has a SPI pin-out. This breakout board has 3.3V controller logic while power supply and background illumination operate on either 3.3V and 5V. ESP8266 microcontroller boards support displays with up to 320480 pixels

The display shown in figure 1 has a touch screen. It has a single row of 14 pins (figure 1; see also figure 3). The pins supporting ‘touch’ as well as those associated with the SD card reader are not connected: we concentrate on displaying text, variables, graphics and fast sequences of memory-loaded bitmaps (‘image frames”). The ILI9341 controller is fast and, in combination with an ESP8266, performs excellently.

The sketch uses the “Adafruit_GFX.h” and “Adafruit_ILI9341.h” libraries. This requires a constructor with defined CS, RST and DC pins. The ‘Clock’ (SCK) pin of the display is connected to pin D5 and the ‘DATA’ (MOSI) pin is wired to pin D7.

Figure 3 shows a Wemos D1 mini board mounted on a prototyping breadboard together with a 2.8 inch ILI9341 SPI TFT display according to the wiring diagram shown in Figure 2. The ESP8266 is running a demo adapted for the “Adafruit_GFX.h” and “Adafruit_ILI9341.h” libraries from Bodmer’s ‘Clock’ example for his TFT_eSPI library.

— ESP8266_ILI9341_Adafruit_Bodmers_clock.ino, a real time analog clock example adapted from Bodmer’s TFT_eSPi library examples (display visible in figure 3).

The TFT display is a kind of LCD that is connected to each pixel using a transistor and it features low current consumption, high-quality, high-resolution and backlight. This 2.8-inch full color LCD has a narrow PCB display. The resolution is 320×280 pixels and it has a four-wire SPI interface and white backlight.

This tutorial shows how to use the I2C LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) with the ESP32 using Arduino IDE. We’ll show you how to wire the display, install the library and try sample code to write text on the LCD: static text, and scroll long messages. You can also use this guide with the ESP8266.

Additionally, it comes with a built-in potentiometer you can use to adjust the contrast between the background and the characters on the LCD. On a “regular” LCD you need to add a potentiometer to the circuit to adjust the contrast.

Before displaying text on the LCD, you need to find the LCD I2C address. With the LCD properly wired to the ESP32, upload the following I2C Scanner sketch.

Displaying static text on the LCD is very simple. All you have to do is select where you want the characters to be displayed on the screen, and then send the message to the display.

The next two lines set the number of columns and rows of your LCD display. If you’re using a display with another size, you should modify those variables.

To display a message on the screen, first you need to set the cursor to where you want your message to be written. The following line sets the cursor to the first column, first row.

Scrolling text on the LCD is specially useful when you want to display messages longer than 16 characters. The library comes with built-in functions that allows you to scroll text. However, many people experience problems with those functions because:

The messageToScroll variable is displayed in the second row (1 corresponds to the second row), with a delay time of 250 ms (the GIF image is speed up 1.5x).

In a 16×2 LCD there are 32 blocks where you can display characters. Each block is made out of 5×8 tiny pixels. You can display custom characters by defining the state of each tiny pixel. For that, you can create a byte variable to hold  the state of each pixel.

In summary, in this tutorial we’ve shown you how to use an I2C LCD display with the ESP32/ESP8266 with Arduino IDE: how to display static text, scrolling text and custom characters. This tutorial also works with the Arduino board, you just need to change the pin assignment to use the Arduino I2C pins.

We hope you’ve found this tutorial useful. If you like ESP32 and you want to learn more, we recommend enrolling in Learn ESP32 with Arduino IDE course.

The capability to read from an ST7789V TFT with a single bidirectional SDA pin has been added. At the moment this ONLY works with an ESP32. It is enabled with a #define TFT_SDA_READ in the setup file.

An Arduino IDE compatible graphics and fonts library for ESP8266 and ESP32 processors with drivers for ILI9341, ILI9163, ST7735, S6D02A1, ILI9481, ILI9486, ILI9488, HX8357D and ST7789 based TFT displays that support SPI. The library can be loaded using the Arduino IDE"s Library Manager.

The library supports TFT displays designed for the Raspberry Pi that are based on a ILI9486 driver chip with a 480 x 320 pixel screen. This display must be of the Waveshare design and use a 16 bit serial interface based on the 74HC04, 74HC4040 and 2 x 74HC4094 logic chips. A modification to these displays is possible (see mod image in Tools folder) to make many graphics functions much faster (e.g. 23ms to clear the screen, 1.2ms to draw a 72 pixel high numeral).

Some displays permit the internal TFT screen RAM to be read. The library supports reading from ILI9341, ST7789 and ILI9488 SPI displays for the ESP32 and ESP8266. The 8 bit parallel displays used with the ESP32 can usually can be read too. The TFT_Screen_Capture example allows full screens to be captured and sent to a PC, this is handy to create program documentation.

The library includes a "Sprite" class, this enables flicker free updates of complex graphics. Direct writes to the TFT with graphics functions are still available, so existing sketches do not need to be changed.

A Sprite is notionally an invisible graphics screen that is kept in the processors RAM. Graphics can be drawn into the Sprite just as they can be drawn directly to the screen. Once the Sprite is completed it can be plotted onto the screen in any position. If there is sufficient RAM then the Sprite can be the same size as the screen and used as a frame buffer. Sprites by default use 16 bit colours, the bit depth can be set to 8 bits (256 colours) , or 1 bit (any 2 colours) to reduce the RAM needed. On an ESP8266 the largest 16 bit colour Sprite that can be created is about 160x128 pixels, this consumes 40Kbytes of RAM. On an ESP32 the workspace RAM is more limited than the datsheet implies so a 16 bit colour Sprite is limited to about 200x200 pixels (~80Kbytes), an 8 bit sprite to 320x240 pixels (~76kbytes). A 1 bit per pixel Sprite requires only 9600 bytes for a full 320 x 240 screen buffer, this is ideal for supporting use with 2 colour bitmap fonts.

One or more sprites can be created, a sprite can be any pixel width and height, limited only by available RAM. The RAM needed for a 16 bit colour depth Sprite is (2 x width x height) bytes, for a Sprite with 8 bit colour depth the RAM needed is (width x height) bytes. Sprites can be created and deleted dynamically as needed in the sketch, this means RAM can be freed up after the Sprite has been plotted on the screen, more RAM intensive WiFi based code can then be run and normal graphics operations still work.

Drawing graphics into a sprite is very fast, for those familiar with the Adafruit "graphicstest" example, this whole test completes in 18ms in a 160x128 sprite. Examples of sprite use can be found in the "examples/Sprite" folder.

If an ESP32 board has SPIRAM (i.e. PSRAM) fitted then Sprites will use the PSRAM memory and large full screen buffer Sprites can be created. Full screen Sprites take longer to render (~45ms for a 320 x 240 16 bit Sprite), so bear that in mind.

The XPT2046 touch screen controller is supported. The SPI bus for the touch controller is shared with the TFT and only an additional chip select line is needed.

The library supports SPI overlap on the ESP8266 so the TFT screen can share MOSI, MISO and SCLK pins with the program FLASH, this frees up GPIO pins for other uses.

The library contains proportional fonts, different sizes can be enabled/disabled at compile time to optimise the use of FLASH memory. Anti-alased (smooth) font files in vlw format stored in SPIFFS are supported. Any 16 bit Unicode character can be included and rendered, this means many language specific characters can be rendered to the screen.

The library is based on the Adafruit GFX and Adafruit driver libraries and the aim is to retain compatibility. Significant additions have been made to the library to boost the speed for ESP8266/ESP32 processors (it is typically 3 to 10 times faster) and to add new features. The new graphics functions include different size proportional fonts and formatting features. There are lots of example sketches to demonstrate the different features and included functions.

Configuration of the library font selections, pins used to interface with the TFT and other features is made by editting the User_Setup.h file in the library folder, or by selecting your own configuration in the "User_Setup_Selet,h" file. Fonts and features can easily be enabled/disabled by commenting out lines.

Anti-aliased (smooth) font files in "vlw" format are generated by the free Processing IDE using a sketch included in the library Tools folder. This sketch with the Processing IDE can be used to generate font files from your computer"s font set or any TrueType (.ttf) font, the font file can include any combination of 16 bit Unicode characters. This means Greek, Japanese and any other UCS-2 glyphs can be used. Character arrays and Strings in UTF-8 format are supported.

Unfortunately the typical UNO/mcufriend TFT display board maps LCD_RD, LCD_CS and LCD_RST signals to the ESP32 analogue pins 35, 34 and 36 which are input only. To solve this I linked in the 3 spare pins IO15, IO33 and IO32 by adding wires to the bottom of the board as follows:

If the display board is fitted with a resistance based touch screen then this can be used by performing the modifications described here and the fork of the Adafruit library:

The library was intended to support only TFT displays but using a Sprite as a 1 bit per pixel screen buffer permits support for the Waveshare 2 and 3 colour SPI ePaper displays. This addition to the library is experimental and only one example is provided. Further examples will be added.

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The ili9341 tft module contains a display controller with the same name: ili9341. it’s a color display that uses spi interface protocol and requires 4 or 5 control pins, it’s low cost and easy to use. the resolution of this tft display is 240 x 320 which means it has 76800 pixels. Specifically, i could not find another library which handled rotation while also supporting the esp8266 with the ili9341 (and this particular display, the tjctm24028 spi). i also created a landscape example which handles the display and touch rotation. 2.8" touch lcd spi for esp8266 (nodemcu). Esp8266 ili9341 tft touchscreen wiring using arduino project guidance johnscott december 3, 2020, 9:39am 1 hi i"m trying to connect all the pins from an esp8266 to a ili9341 tft touchscreen. i followed this: 2.8″ touch lcd spi for esp8266 (nodemcu) – nailbuster software inc. but it didn"t work. railroader december 3, 2020, 12:57pm 2. Interfacing esp8266 nodemcu with ili9341 tft display.circuit diagram and arduino code at: simple circuit esp8266 nodemcu ili9341 tft display. Here we wire two representative esp8266 boards: nodemcu and wemos d1 mini to a single row 14 pin header, 320*240 tft display that uses the four wire spi interface. figure 1.wiring diagram: 2.8 inch diagonal 320*240 tft display and an esp8266 nodemcu board. ili9143 controlled tft displays.

This thread has prompted me to look as well. the last time i needed screens for interfacing to the esp8266, the largest i could find was a 2.8 inch spi tft and two out of 4 had poor touch screens. now i see there are 3.5 inch ones, like the one mentioned in #3 but with du pont male connectors instead of the the raspberry connector: with touch. Esp8266 nodemcu il 9341 touch tft used to control under floor heat. it sends setting and room temperature to a raspberry pi, that controls the valves. used to control under floor. Step 4: lcd pinout. the pinout is the following: display sdo miso to nodemcu pin d6 (or leave disconnected if not reading tft) display led to nodemcu pin vin (or 5v, see below) display sck to nodemcu pin d5. display sdi mosi to nodemcu pin d7. display dc (rs ao)to nodemcu pin d3.

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used to control under floor heat. it sends setting and room temperature to a raspberry pi, that controls the valves. interfacing esp8266 nodemcu with ili9341 tft display. circuit diagram and arduino code at: connecting tft lcd touch screen with nodemcu esp8266 check tutorial article here nodemcu arduino ide 1.6.7 utft library library for esp and arduinoide: github gnulabis utft esp8266 lcd aliexpress item nodemcu lua wifi development board based on the esp8266 internet of things 32338129505 3 demos of the nodemcu board using 3 different libraries. info: nodemcu tft lcd screen info and other demos: my website link for downloads (if any are present), etc: .accbs.co.uk video.aspx?video id=2xsl6jswls0 a short and here is the url that i got this project from. credit to the person that did it. instructables id esp8266 wifi analyzer esp8266 nodemcu with a working ili9341 display hardware esp8266 or nodemcu 2.2 inch tft lcd software library adafruit example draw 3d cube on lcd display from esp8266 without any mcu. welcome to another arduino video tutorial! in this video, we are going to take a first look at this 2.8" color tft touch display! Подключил дисплей tjctm24028 spi к esp8266 nodemcu, дисплей на ili9341 240х320. тут распиновка

Nice packaging comes with more tham you need to build your weather station. Only thing that was missing was a piece of paper with reference to documentation, which is to be found on the Internets.

What you’ll build in less that 20 minutes of soldering is a device, that (with demo sketch for Arduino IDE) is able to connect to your WiFi and fetch current WeatherStation data for pre-defined location. On first start, it will require to calibrate touch display used to control the device.

Which gives a real brainkick when you realize you have SD card, touch screen, free serial port and you could easily add GSM module (without additional memory requirements) and possibly some additional I2C device(s) attached.

Even though it might not be visible at first sight, there’s a tremendous amount of work behind this thing (and by ‘thing’ is meant a combination of software and hardware). When you start installing the sample Weather Station sketch, it appears that you need to install some libraries, all of them by Daniel Eichhorn: ESP8266 WeatherStation which is a WeatherUnderground client, Json Streaming Parser that helps keeping low memory profile while getting huge API responses, and Mini Grafx library that implements a VSYNC equivalent through framebuffer for embedded devices.

The Arduino sketch has 438k built so there’s still plenty of room to add more features. However, I’m looking to dive deeply into existing example code in order to reuse as much as possible. There’s NNTP, visual WiFi display, display carousel, icons, fonts, colours and last but not least the touch screen support.