I opend this thread because I’m searching as a LGVL-beginner for a ESPHome LGVL Editor and there are some projects running, but none of them is at an final stage or it’s not very beginners-friendly yet.
Would be nice to collect all the current projects to have a overview and a help to find the right tool for anybodys project.
If you know other projects, hints or tipps and tricks, please let people know.
what I found so far:
(the order has nothing to mean)
another interesting project with upcoming LVGL support:
Today I was playing arround with Squareline Studio and the converter tool from @gpambrozio and must say, as far, this works great.
Okay, everything tooked a long time because I did had to learn about to deal with the Squareline Studio and first time I was running a python project on my computer. But without this tools I would have given up allready.
It is a bit tricky, because SS has a ton of setting what LGVL on ESPHome does not support all of them. Anyway it is a big help until now.
For a start I created only a few screens with buttons to switch from screen to screen, nothing special, but this works and it’s a good start.
small update:
I wasted so much time because this display has got a terrible colour calibration, or better sayed no calibration at all. my theme should be purple-ish, but it resulted allways in blue. thats about the display it self and seems to be “normal”.
with SquarelineStudio and the SquarlineToEsphome converter I could do the basic, plain displays.
already did try to add a Arc, but I think for this I will try a other tool like the lvgl-editor from kr0ner. SquarelineStudio misses some settings for Arc. e.g. you can’t define the dot and there is no scale.
tryed the lvgl-editor from kr0ner.
tool is very basic only. but the main problem I have is that a error ocurs when I try to save or load a project or .yaml. don’t know what I’m doing wrong or if this is a bug.
so I will continue with SquarelineStudio. until know it seems to be the one and only useful editor.
Haven’t found it on my search. But now you are here.
For a beginner like me it looks a bit more complicated to be installed.
There is this readme on the project page, but could you please explane for me and maybe other beginners more detailed.
I have ESPhome device builder on a Rpi4 with HASSOS. Can I install everything directly on there and is it smart to do so? Or is it better to get another device or docker container to build the screens to avoid breaking something on HASSOS or the ESP addon in future?
Sorry to ask, but it seems to be a bit complicated for me.
Thank you, yes, I did find them, and I integrated almost all of them; that was very, very helpful! Will make sure to give you a credit for that on the project page
I love your project, so much stuff that we could share between our two projects. Don’t you want to open source your project so we could share code? cheers
I’ve spent a lot of time squashing bugs to make this release as stable as possible. It’s still a work in progress, but I hope it makes designing your displays a little easier.
Today I made some experiments with the ESPHomeDesigner integration om my ESP32-S3-7"-colour-touch-lcd and have to say that this is the lvgl editor tool for me.
It is not finnished yet and on its way, but gets quickly better and better.
