Open zacheryrodgers opened 1 month ago
Thanks! Yes, this far I have figured out, had pretty much an identical config myself.
And with seg display, also not really great progress. Using native ESPHome yaml-based config just doesn't cut it, as there is too much overhead with all the publishing and state updates. Because each letter needs to be updated multiple times a second to have 4 separate characters. This means a few hundred "switch" operations per second. Most likely, the only solution is a custom C++ component, which may or may not be a very complicated thing, but I didn't go down that rabbit hole yet.
Aw man was hoping you had something cooked up for it. Its a shame that the manufacturer implemented the display this way rather than using one with an I2C interface or similar. I am debating just gluing a supported OLED display on top of the 7seg and and considering it an upgrade 🤣
I have been struggling to figure out an elegant and simple way to make use of the display on this expansion board, but to no avail.
Feel free to use this as an example base yaml config in this repo