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Flipdot-display/lib/BROSE9323
mangavalkandClaude Opus 5.5 6e4d5e152b Power-cycle-friendly Nano boot and ESP relay handling
Nano / driver:
- No full on/off flip at boot; the first display() after boot is a forced
  full redraw instead, since the physical dot state is unknown
- Send READY when booted

ESP32:
- relayOn() only switches and waits when the relay was off, and waits for
  the Nano's READY (3 s timeout) instead of a fixed 3 s on every frame
- relayOff() ends Serial and releases the TX pin so the idle-high line no
  longer back-powers the Nano through its RX pin
- No display commands are sent while the relay is off
- Switching the relay on cancels a pending power-off countdown

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-13 00:12:28 +02:00
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BROSE9323 driver

An Adafruit_GFX driver for Brose flipdot panels, shared by both firmware targets. The constructor is BROSE9323(width, height, panel_width, flip_time_us = 280). This project uses BROSE9323 display(84, 19, 28).

Build modes

Flag Used by Behaviour
(none) Nano Drives the panel through GPIO. Keeps an old and a new frame buffer and flips only the dots that changed.
-D ESPSERIAL ESP32 Holds no buffer. drawPixel, fillScreen, display and setTiming are sent as serial commands to the Stream passed to begin(&Serial).
-D FLIPDOT_PLCC_ADAPTER Nano (optional) Uses the pin mapping of the PLCC adapter board.

The flags are set per environment in platformio.ini through build_flags. Don't #define them in the header.

Notes

  • In direct mode (setDirect(true)) every pixel is flipped right away, without a call to display().
  • print() maps German umlauts (ÄäÖöÜüß) to the code page 437 glyphs used by the GFX font.
  • On an ATmega168 the old buffer is left out to save RAM. Every display() call then flips all dots.