AlekEagle / esphome-lcd_grove_rgb

A custom ESPHome component to control the Grove-LCD with RGB Backlight

ESPHome LCD Grove RGB

This is a simple component to use the Grove-LCD RGB backlight display with ESPHome.

Features

• Display text on the LCD
• Set the backlight color
• Set the backlight brightness (white only)

Usage

# Example configuration entry
display:
  - platform: lcd_grove_rgb
    dimensions: 16x2 # optional, default: 16x2
    address: 0x3e # optional, default: 0x3e
    backlight: 0x62 # optional, default: 0x62
    lambda: |-
      it.print(0, 0, "Hello World!");
    update_interval: 1s

Lambda Methods

print

Uses the same print and printf methods as other LCD display components. See the LCD Display Component for more information.

backlight

Set the backlight color. The color is an RGB triplet, where each value is between 0 and 255. The default color is white (255, 255, 255).

it.backlight(); // Turn on the backlight with the default color (white)

it.backlight(128); // Set the backlight brightness to 128 (white)

it.backlight(255, 0, 0); // Set the backlight color to red

it.no_backlight(); // Turn off the backlight

clear

Clears the display.

home

Sets the cursor to the home position.

set_cursor

Sets the cursor to the specified position.

it.set_cursor(0, 0); // Set the cursor to the first column of the first row

display

Turns the display on.

no_display

Turns the display off.