e-paper RAM persists between refreshes, but the decoder reset the accumulated
window union on every 0x20 MASTER_ACTIVATION. A PARTIAL refresh (BadgeOS redraws
only a strip when you navigate) then set a small window, so composeFrame emitted
just that strip, placed top-left with the rest black — reading as a 90°-rotated
screen with a black band down the side. Keep the union (and the greyscale flag)
across refreshes so it stays at the full-panel extent set by the first full
refresh; every frame now composes the whole persistent RAM and partial updates
land in place. Cleared only by a real RST (0x12). Paged full refreshes (GxEPD2)
re-cover the panel each frame so they are unchanged; the BadgeOS menu render is
byte-identical and all 23 decoder/epaper tests pass.
A panel driven with a Y-decrement entry mode through the rotation-1 transpose
(BadgeOS on the Badger 2350) rendered upside-down: its text read vertically
flipped. The transpose was calibrated against the standard Y-increment
(GxEPD2 / raw-SSD1680) path, where the source index maps to display row via
Wn-1-x; under Y-decrement the source axis ends up flipped, so map it straight
(x) to the display row for that case. Gated on the same yTopIsHigh signal
already used for the RAM read, so Y-increment panels are byte-for-byte
unchanged. Verified: the BadgeOS factory menu now renders upright ("BadgeOS"
title + app icons readable). 23 decoder/epaper tests still pass.
Panels that upload a custom waveform LUT (0x32) AND write both RAM planes
(0x24 + 0x26) in a frame drive 4-level greyscale: each pixel is 2 bits (one
per plane) composited by the custom LUT into 4 grey levels. Auto-detect this
from the command stream (custom LUT + red-plane written; never key off a panel
name) and expose an optional Frame.grey (0..3) alongside the existing 1-bit
`pixels` (kept as a level>=2 -> white projection so 1-bit and BWR consumers -
EPaperPart, GxEPD2 - are byte-identical). composeFrame builds a parallel grey
plane and rotates it through the same transpose as the palette plane.
The combo (bw<<1 | red) -> level map is [3,2,1,0] (white/light/dark/black):
bw is the dominant luminance bit (bw=0 -> light pair, bw=1 -> dark pair), red
refines one step within each half; verified against the captured menu's plane
populations. Exported DEFAULT_GREY_COMBO_TO_LEVEL + an optional greyComboToLevel
option (tunes ordering only, never forces greyscale on).
Standard SSD1680 paths (raw badge examples, GxEPD2 full refresh) load the OTP
LUT, never send 0x32, never write 0x26 -> unchanged. 23 unit tests pass
(ssd168x-decoder + epaper-part-integration, incl. new greyscale + no-regression
cases).
Panels that upload their own B/W waveform LUT via 0x32 (WRITE_LUT) instead of
loading the OTP/built-in waveform (0x22 with the 0x10 load bit) redefine the
generic SSD168x B/W convention: on the OTP waveform RAM bit 1 = white, but a
custom-waveform panel in our catalog inverts it (bit 1 = black). Auto-detect
the custom LUT from the command stream (never key off a panel name) and XOR the
B/W polarity; when set, compose from the 0x24 plane only (the 0x26 plane is the
differential "old" framebuffer, not a mono mirror). Every standard path we
drive (GxEPD2 full refresh, the raw SSD1680 badge examples) loads the OTP LUT
and never sends 0x32, so their polarity is unchanged.
Also fix descending RAM ranges (X-/Y-decrement entry mode, e.g. yrange=[263,0]):
normalize window bounds and the write-cursor wrap with min/max (verbatim [0] as
the low bound collapsed every scanline onto one row -> garbled/blank frame), and
read the visual-top row from the high RAM address under Y-decrement. Byte-
identical for ascending ranges. Removes the dead ramTarget field.
20/20 unit tests pass (ssd168x-decoder + epaper-part-integration).
The 7.5" 800x480 dashboard (GxEPD2_750_T7) rendered blank: it is a UC8179 /
GD7965 controller, but the panel config claimed controllerFamily 'ssd168x',
so the SSD168x decoder (which only reads 0x24/0x26/0x44/0x45) ignored its
0x10/0x13 DTM stream.
- Add a Uc8179 decoder (worker Uc8179EpaperSlave + browser Uc8179Decoder).
UC8179 is the same UltraChip command family as the UC8159c (0x10/0x13 DTM,
0x12 refresh) but mono (1 bit/px). GxEPD2 writes the visible image to 0x13
(DTM2 "current"; 0x10 is the ignored "previous"), framed by 0x91/0x90
(partial window, pixel coords MSB-first)/0x13 data/0x92. Data lands at
absolute pixel coords inside the window, so compose is just the RAM. The
Frame reuses the SSD168x palette (0=black, 1=white) so paintFrame renders it.
- EPaperPanels.ts: add the 'uc8179' family and point epaper-7in5-bw at it.
EPaperPart.ts + esp32_worker.py dispatch 'uc8179' to the new decoder.
- Fix the BUSY polarity: UC8179 (like the UC8159c) idles BUSY HIGH, not LOW.
The worker seeded BUSY LOW for every non-uc8159c panel, so GxEPD2_750_T7's
_PowerOn()/_InitDisplay() busy-wait timed out (~10 s, "Busy Timeout!") on
every refresh. Now _PowerOn returns in ~129 us.
- esp32_worker.py: the runtime sensor_attach epaper path still emitted the
epaper_update payload nested under 'data' (the old double-wrap bug); emit
it flat like the init path.
The 5.65" ACeP UC8159c example already rendered (it has its own decoder and
got the WS-plumbing fix); verified the 7 colour bars are correct.
The 2.9" tri-colour ESP32 alert badge rendered the red ALERT pill as white:
the red plane (0x26) was received but landed out of bounds and was dropped.
GxEPD2_3C writes the 0x24 (black) plane then the 0x26 (red) plane WITHOUT
re-seeking the RAM address counter between them — it relies on the SSD168x
counter wrapping back to the window start after the last byte of the window.
Our decoder advanced Y past the window end instead of wrapping, so every
0x26 byte hit y >= rows and was discarded (red_ram stayed all-init).
Mirror the hardware: when the X cursor wraps at the end of a row, advance Y
with a wrap at the active window boundary (yrange), honouring the data-entry
Y direction. Applied identically to the worker slave, the browser decoder,
and the Python golden reference so the three stay in lockstep. No regression
on the mono panels (their counter is re-seeked per plane, so the wrap is a
no-op for them); verified the tri-colour pill now renders red and the 2.9"
weather / 2.13" clock / 1.54" hello panels are unchanged.
ePaper panels rendered rotated/misaligned on AVR and RP2040 (e.g. the 2.13"
Pico clock came out sideways and clipped). The ESP32 worker decoder was just
taught to compose in the controller's native RAM geometry and rotate to the
display orientation, but the browser-side SSD168xDecoder (used by AVR/RP2040)
still composed at display dims with no rotation, so the two diverged.
- SSD168xDecoder.ts: port the worker's native-window compose + rotation.
* Size RAM to the longer side both ways so a rotated native layout
(128x296 behind a 296x128 panel) isn't truncated.
* Compose in the active RAM window, then rotate via the inverse of
Adafruit_GFX setRotation(1). Detect orientation by BYTE width so a
non-multiple-of-8 native width (the 2.13" panel is 122 px) is handled.
* Track the UNION of windows per frame: paged drivers (GxEPD2 page height
< panel) set one partial window per page, so compose must use the full
native area, not just the last page's strip. Fixes the all-white render
on paged panels (1.54" Uno, 4.2" Pico, 7.5" ESP32).
* Add an isBwr option: B/W panels treat 0x26 as a 2nd mono plane (white
only if both planes white), tri-colour panels keep red-wins.
* Default the active window to display geometry; the firmware overrides it.
- EPaperPart.ts: pass isBwr = cfg.palette === 'bwr' to the decoder.
- esp32_spi_slaves.py / esp32_worker.py: mirror the byte-aware rotation +
window-union in the worker, and derive is_bwr from panel_kind on the
runtime sensor_attach path too (fixes the tri-colour ESP32 alert badge).
- test_epaper/ssd168x_decoder.py: re-port the golden reference to match
(keeps the 3-way TS/Python/worker identity invariant). Tests updated to
construct tri-colour cases with is_bwr/palette='bwr'.
- examples-displays-epaper.ts: the Pico VCC wire referenced '3V3(OUT)',
which the velxio-pi-pico-w element doesn't expose (it has '3V3'), so the
wire snapped to the board corner. Use '3V3'.
- Implement UC8159cDecoder for handling 7-colour ACeP panels.
- Introduce painting functions for UC8159c frames in EPaperPart.
- Update EPaperPart to handle both SSD168x and UC8159c frame types.
- Add integration tests for EPaperPart and UC8159cDecoder.
- Create example sketch for 5.65" ACeP 7-colour panel.
- Enhance error handling in test cases for library dependencies.
- Introduced EPaperPanels.ts to define configurations for various ePaper panels including dimensions, refresh rates, and controller details.
- Implemented SSD168xDecoder.ts to handle the decoding of SPI commands for the SSD168x family of ePaper displays.
- Created EPaperPart.ts to manage the simulation of ePaper panels, integrating with the existing simulator architecture and handling events.
- Added example sketches for 2.13", 2.9", 4.2", and 7.5" ePaper displays, demonstrating basic functionality and text rendering.
- Ensured compatibility with AVR, RP2040, and ESP32 platforms, with appropriate pin configurations for each.
David Montero Crespo