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david4599 / PricehaxBT

Wireless tool to communicate with IR based ESLs from a smartphone ;-)
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Question: Future of this project #6

Closed MDeca001 closed 11 months ago

MDeca001 commented 11 months ago

Hi, I've stumbled upon this amazing project a few months ago, and I've only recently started trying it out physically on my Arduinos and various boards.

Seeing that the last commit was made last year, I was wondering if the project is still active and if there were any plans for the future of this amazing project.

Thanks in advance, Matteo

david4599 commented 11 months ago

Hi!

Well, this project is quite inactive but there are still plans. I have a few features in mind and some code refactoring to do but this needs time that I don't have right now. There will be new ESL models to support in the future too. Especially those with new capabilities like the E-ink 4 colors B/W/R/Y. I guess this will take months to get one of them and do a bit of research to understand how they modified the protocol to support sending 4-color images.

For now, you can check Furrtek's PrecIR repo. He recently released his new Pricehax version (based on PricehaxBT, itself based on the original Pricehax app he made almost 10 years ago) which communicates with his ESL Blaster dongle and there are updates from time to time.

MDeca001 commented 11 months ago

That sounds amazing! Thank you for keeping this amazing project alive!

I'm working on a simple ESP32 port of the dongle code, I might considering submitting a pull request when it's done and working I'll check out furrtek's project, thanks again

david4599 commented 11 months ago

Oh, you may not be aware but a port for ESP32 was already done: https://github.com/skiphansen/PricehaxESP32

However, it's possible that it doesn't work with the last version of the app because I changed a bit the bluetooth data and the project wasn't updated since. Someone recently asked for an update of the port to support the PP16 protocol so I just added a comment on this issue at the same time.

MDeca001 commented 11 months ago

That's really handy, I wasn't aware of its existence. My "port" is much simpler, meaning I only changed functions related to the AVR architecture to be compatible with the ESP32's one. I'm not sure if I'm on the right track because I'm having some issues hardware side, and I haven't got much time lately. But I'll do my best to post updates on this issue.

Il giorno mer 20 set 2023 alle ore 20:49 david4599 @.***> ha scritto:

Oh, you may not be aware but a port for ESP32 was already done: https://github.com/skiphansen/PricehaxESP32

However, it's possible that it doesn't work with the last version of the app because I changed a bit the bluetooth data and the project wasn't updated since. Someone recently asked for an update of the port to support the PP16 protocol so I just added a comment on this issue at the same time.

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