Perhaps the problem is that your screen is updated too often? I’ve read from the manufacturer that it’s recommended to set refresh rates to at least 180 seconds, and also to keep the display power off from time to time if possible.
Anyone else screen gone black after the latest esphome firmware update?
Edit: there been a fix put out now.
Just my experience, my display which I put together last august died this month. I had it updating every minute. So I suppose that works out to somewhere around 430,000 refreshes?
Anyway, I will definitely implement the prescence sensor for refreshing. That’s a clever idea to extend the panel life.
I love my screen so much but it’s rather small. Does anyone know if there is any bigger screens to use? No touch needed, or is the tablet a better choice for that?
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Hi Guys,
Does anyone have a list of glyph to midi as a reference, I’d like to use more than the posted MDI icons.
Eg. Is there a list of these?
- "\U000F0590" # mdi-weather-cloudy
- "\U000F0F2F" # mdi-weather-cloudy-alert
- "\U000F0E6E" # mdi-weather-cloudy-arrow-right
- "\U000F0591" # mdi-weather-fog
- "\U000F0592" # mdi-weather-hail
- "\U000F0F30" # mdi-weather-hazy
- "\U000F0898" # mdi-weather-hurricane
- "\U000F0593" # mdi-weather-lightning
- "\U000F067E" # mdi-weather-lightning-rainy
- "\U000F0594" # mdi-weather-night
- "\U000F0F31" # mdi-weather-night-partly-cloudy
- "\U000F0595" # mdi-weather-partly-cloudy
- "\U000F0F32" # mdi-weather-partly-lightning
- "\U000F0F33" # mdi-weather-partly-rainy
- "\U000F0F34" # mdi-weather-partly-snowy
- "\U000F0F35" # mdi-weather-partly-snowy-rainy
- "\U000F0596" # mdi-weather-pouring
- "\U000F0597" # mdi-weather-rainy
- "\U000F0598" # mdi-weather-snowy
- "\U000F0F36" # mdi-weather-snowy-heavy
- "\U000F067F" # mdi-weather-snowy-rainy
- "\U000F0599" # mdi-weather-sunny
- "\U000F0F37" # mdi-weather-sunny-alert
- "\U000F14E4" # mdi-weather-sunny-off
- "\U000F059A" # mdi-weather-sunset
- "\U000F059B" # mdi-weather-sunset-down
- "\U000F059C" # mdi-weather-sunset-up
- "\U000F0F38" # mdi-weather-tornado
- "\U000F059D" # mdi-weather-windy
- "\U000F059E" # mdi-weather-windy-variant
- "\U000F058E" # mdi-water-percent
- "\U000F04C5" # mdi-spedometer
- "\U000F0F29" # mdi-snowflake-alert
- "\U000F15FA" # mdi-windsock
- "\U000F19B3" # mdi-arrow-down-thin
- "\U000F19B2" # mdi-arrow-up-thin
- "\U000F19B4" # mdi-arrow-top-right-thin
- "\U000F19B7" # mdi-arrow-bottom-right-thin
- "\U000F00A5" # mdi-binoculars
- "\U000F018C" # mdi-compass-outline
- "\U000F05A9" # mdi-wifi
- "\U000F0928" # mdi-wifi-strength-4
- "\U000F0925" # mdi-wifi-strength-3
- "\U000F0922" # mdi-wifi-strength-2
- "\U000F091F" # mdi-wifi-strength-1
- "\U000F092B" # mdi-wifi-strength-alert-outline
- "\U000F0079" # mdi-battery
- "\U000F0082" # mdi-battery-90
- "\U000F0081" # mdi-battery-80
- "\U000F0080" # mdi-battery-70
- "\U000F007F" # mdi-battery-60
- "\U000F007E" # mdi-battery-50
- "\U000F007D" # mdi-battery-40
- "\U000F007C" # mdi-battery-30
- "\U000F007B" # mdi-battery-20
- "\U000F007A" # mdi-battery-10
- "\U000F10CD" # mdi-battery-alert-variant-outline
- "\U000F0E03" # mdi-thermometer-chevron-up
- "\U000F0E02" # mdi-thermometer-chevron-down
- "\U000F1A09" # mdi-triangle-small-down
- "\U000F1A0A" # mdi-triangle-small-up
Thanks
You should find the answer in this post:
TLDR; by opening the font on your computer you will find all informations you need
Love the image, how does one get that working?
Can you please share your code?
Finally got the screen and esp32 at home, and the demo program works. Now it’s time to start designing the UI of this thing.
As several else have stated, would be lovely to have a way to preview the results of the output script to a screen instead of having to flashing it all the time to the ESP32.
Anyone managed to make something for this function?
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Same - sometimes after update screen gone black, sometimes update normal, BUT this happend after both firmware updates (1.6.2. last update). During update esphome were show me in logs a few little issues and i delete it, then esp was updated as normal, but this black screen problem has arise.
I was looking for a similar solution, because I did something like this for the first time in my life, but I didn’t find anything and did everything from scratch and flashed the device every time. The best way is to take something as an example.
The code is mostly made up of what has been done by OP with a few little customisations to suit my needs. To get it working, just follow along with this thread and the github. If you need to know something more specific, then let me know.
oh, I’ve held off the 1.6.2 update after being too quick on the one before and having that issue. Perhaps restore the previous version and see how you go.
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How can I do it? I do not see the opportunity to return the previous version.
Settings > System > Backup and you should have had an ESPhome backup be automatically created for you that you can reapply. But I’m not sure if that then triggers your ESP32 device to suggest to also revert… I did have troubles trying to work that one out myself the other day but perhaps it’ll be fine for you.
Thank you!
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Really enjoyed reading this project and have since purchased the necessary stuff myself. Am well on my way, with some nice first results.
I myself have a dynamic energy contract, which means I have a different energy rate every hour. Of course I try to automate as much as possible with Home Assistant. But some olders appliances like my dishwasher I still have to turn on by hand.
So I was wondering if anyone had already managed to display a graph? I already have the price data in Home Assistant and am already plotting on a dashboard with apexcharts. But I would love to be able to display it on this display so I don’t have to grab my phone.
I did just that with the [Display Component — ESPHome]
Don’t have the code for it since it didn’t come out very pretty so I abandoned it quickly.
Since the graph component plots the history, what I did was simply to create a template sensor in home assistant with the state equal to a future price, e.g. price 12 hours from now. Then use the graph component to plot that sensor for 12 hours.
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That’s a clever idea 
, I’m going to give that a try, thanks