Support for Wio Terminal

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Support for Wio Terminal #831

Closed rthorntn closed 3 years ago

rthorntn commented 3 years ago

Describe the problem you have/What new integration you would like

Please add support for WIO Terminal IoD

Please describe your use case for this integration and alternatives you've tried:

N/A

Additional context

It's a neat little device, low cost, 2.4” LCD Screen ARM Cortex-M4F (Microchip ATSAMD51P19) 4 MB External Flash, 192 KB RAM Realtek RTL8720DN 2.4Ghz / 5Ghz Wi-Fi BLE / BLE 5.0 USB OTG Support 5-way switch, IMU, Microphone, Buzzer, microSD card slot, Light sensor & IR Emitter (940nm) Battery Chassis add-on

OttoWinter commented 3 years ago

ARM Cortex-M4F (Microchip ATSAMD51P19)

Not an ESP, so not for ESPHome. Sorry

RoganDawes commented 2 years ago

It may be worth revisiting this decision. The hardware architecture of the Wio Terminal aligns very closely with the work I am currently doing with the STM32 port, as well as extending the API to communicate over other transports than just AsyncTCP. i.e. API over Serial. It appears that there is an Arduino environment for the RTL8720 (under which the Seeed erpcWifi library was built), so there are a couple of options:

Build ESPHome for RTL8720, as well as ESPHome for SAMD51, and use my API over Stream work to allow them to communicate.
Build ESPHome for the SAMD51, and use the erpcWiFi library to allow the SAMD51 to access WiFi functionality directly.