In the course of playing with other hardware, I’ve come across libraries that allow you to define different IOs for the I2C bus. So for e.g. on the wemos D1 mini, because 5V, GND, D4, D3 are the ducks sitting in a line, I could change the display I2C pins using SSD1306Wire display(0x3c, D3, D4); I hope to do the same with the Photon because this makes it extremely convenient to plug in the el cheapo 128x64 OLED LCDs for ez serial debugging (using VIN, GND, RX, TX) without having to jumper anything. I wonder if this is something native to the board or using the D1, D0 clock pins are a must?
Disclaimer: I’m very naive to board layouts and designs but sensitive to quality-of-life improvements
The ESP controllers have a very flexible GPIO assignment feature where you can virtually have any pin do anything. So it’s not a feature actually provided by the display library but an enhanced feature of the Wire implementation on ESP controllers.
However, neither the STM32 used on Particel Gen1&2 devices nor the nRF controllers used for Gen3 offer that flexibility.
However, you can use D2 as GND and D3 as Vin to achieve virtually the same effect (at the expense of two more GPIOs).
Yup!
e.g. the link posted at the end of the thread you linked to
As for the "original" library there are also some threads in this forum talking about how to make the "broken" library build (BTW, it's only the examples and only one build error AFAICT which is easily fixed by removing the double implementation of random() in the examples).
I included Rickas’ library in my code of the web IDE and it fired up the same error as the main one.
clamper.ino:2:33: Adafruit_SSD1306_RK.h: No such file or directory
and yes I’ve included the library as a first liner on my source file (actually its auto-included). But I can compile and flash the library’s example.ino. I’m scratching my head here.
Also, is there particle-dev plugin for the atom IDE still supported? I’ve tried installing that and got an error as well.
I see you have include statements for both libraries (Adafruit_SSD1306_RK.handAdafruit_SSD1306.h) but have only the _RK version imported.
You also have #include Adafruit_GFX.h but that library is not imported and not needed either.
Could I ask what were the minor tweaks? I removed those two statements and also tried copying your version wholesale but its still trying at the same error, :
clamper.ino:4:33: Adafruit_SSD1306_RK.h: No such file or directory
I changed your #include "application.h" to #include "Particle.h" (which is the new name)
I moved the #include <photon-thermistor.h> from photon-heater.cpp to photon-heater.h
reordered the include statments and removed redundant comments
But these minor tweaks won’t solve your issue.
Your project has got to a state where you’d need a clean build which the Web IDE doesn’t offer.
One of the step I made to make the project build was to start with a completely fresh project and copy/paste your three source files over.
After that I imported the libraries.
So the easierst for you would be to use my revision and build ontop of that.
Thanks! I’ll look into it right now! Thanks again @ScruffR! This was exactly what I was hoping for - finally got to see the serial monitor *whiff whiff.
