Arduino Menu Tutorial with a Rotary Encoder and a Nokia 5110 LCD display. 

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I too have been wishing for a project like this. There are many variations on the Tube, but none for a non-coder like me to understand. I appreciate the effort put in this. Thanks Nick for all your videos.

Nice job... It gives you the option to reduce the number of buttons on a complex project. Setting month, day, year, hour, minute & second on a clock project becomes very easy for an end user.

It's a topic I've been looking for a long time. Thank you very, very much.

Yay! I've been waiting for this, thanks! Rotary encoder are so much cooler than buttons.

Great job Nick! This tutorial inspired me to my new project :) Thanks a lot!!!

Great project, well explained. Thank you for the detailed explanation and material. Looking forward to seeing your new projects.

I have has some of these rotary encoder on the bench for a while now. i think i will have to try it out . Thanks for another great video.

Thanks for the instruction. This will come in handy for many projects!

I like rotary encoders instead of buttons, takes up less space, and can do much more. Keep up the great videos.

είσαι αρχηγός..... this is a truly enlighting project.... all questions answered....

Your code was very well written and easy to adapt. beautiful tutorial

Awesome topic. Your work will surly help many people (me included). Thank you very much

like joystick buttons and i'll try to make this menu in a json format , Thanks Nick your videos is always helping

I prefer buttons and would love to see a version of this menu system for an OLED display. Great video.

Great videos you do. Thank you very much for it!

Thx man, please do one for 20x4 lcd with I2C interface, sd card, and uno , thx again .LOVE your videos .

Thank you very much for sharing and helping me out with this project and excellent information.

you are great in explaining stuff. keep up.

This is exactly what I need. Thanks!

Excellent!! Nice job! the rotary encoder is very handy :-)

Excellent video, thanks for the explanation.

Hello ! Very nice ! I’ll try this ! Thank you very much !

Awesome video as always !

I prefer to have encoders than button to minimize the panel space. Thanks for your wonderful video tutorials. 😊

You are helping everybody. It is very useful chanel and i think perceptive.

the rotary encoder is always a cool one. but combine rotary encoder with switches, creates damm good interfacing panel. my personal favourite is SMD joysticks. thank you very much for this tutorial.

very nice explaining...for a person with no knowledge in software/coding, in your video explaining what does what in the code has help me understand it a little more then getting an app to actually learn to write example codes that i have no intrest in...you video answer alot of my questions

Most difficult solution seen, and it works, congrats, this code can at least be halved and still works My professor at varsity always said if you want a difficult answer ask a student. I first tried to understand the flow before changing it, and it was really difficult. A few switch statements and whala .. if then elseif have priority and is extremely difficult to read, but switch statements can easily be read if used in a state machine, even more if enums is used instead for constants (0,1,2,.. 6).

Excellent!! Nice job!

I like rotary over just buttons. What I think is really cool is a hybrid... use a 4-way hat switch or buttons of your choice AND a rotary... BAM! best of both worlds, user choice and you can use both to navigate, select and so on. Might be a bit of an ache to code and connect but... Thanks for continuously teaching me new stuff and doing so in such a way an old noob like me can understand.

Πραγματικά καταπληκτική δουλειά στο κανάλι! Αρκετά από τα tutorial δεν εμβαθύνουν στο θέμα όπως εσύ! Πιστεύω θα ήταν αρκετά ενδιαφέρον αν έκανες ένα tutorial για ένα Midi Controller χρησιμοποιώντας Rotary Encoders, Potentiometers, Buttons και Faders! θα με βοηθούες αρκετά, εφόσον έχω στο νου μου να φτιάξω ένα! Και πάλι ευχαριστώ και καταπληκτική δουλειά!

an absolute fantastic thanks

Excellent video one of the best

Hi Nick, This is really great option indeed, similar to my in-vehicle infotainment system (control). The complex code is very well simplified here, I must say! I would like to see "Incremental Optical Rotary encoder" with stepper motor (i.e. in close - loop ckt/feedback) to determine any movement of shaft (stepper motor's shaft) when motor is in ideal state and its direction like clock-wise or anti-clock-wise. The cost of the project / POC (Proof of Concept) could be on higher side, but would be fun and challenging. Thank You, BR, Ambarish

thank you for the video :) very useful

Great, Nick! u make me miss my first Nokia phone so much

Thanks for the video, still learning or trying to learn all the pieces I will need to merge/write for a project I would like to do, so this should help me understand what I need to do. I was wondering, how would you go about having a home page as the first window, and then enter the menu with a button push? For my project I would like to display the time, temp and a stats for those 2 listings (aquarium lights on/off, water temp and if heater is on/off) as the main page or view, then use a menu to adjust the activating/deactivating time/temp on/off points only.

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thank you. it is amazing video tutorial.

Great video, I like encoders because I can purpose them for other things, like speed of motors. Buttons are ok also depending on how many you want to use. One question, wouldn't a switch case statement help better with menu items?

more than a cool Arduino tutorial, I learned how to make better videos. great job! that's how it's done!

Awesome. Now I have to build another project using the rotary encoder. I'm already working on a power supply that uses your button tutorial for the display. If I hadn't already designed and built the enclosure I would probably use the encoder instead of buttons. A rotating knob is more natural for a percentage type of variable like voltage or current output, in my opinion.

Great vid! Question, how could you set limits to the variables' values?

This is a brilliant menu, and it works perfectly on an OLED module with very few modifications to the code. I just have a small request. I want to build a nested menu system. For example, if I select contrast, I should see one more menu similar to the first menu. Can you help me with a minimalistic code example? Thanks!

Very nice! I will use this code :D

How did you do this?? Awesome. Great work Nick......thanks

Great tutorial. What about make one about running project on battery = low power/sleep?

I'm doing a thermastat. My control will be a 5-way switch, more akin to buttons I suppose. My wife has MS and the rotation of a knob requires complex wrist movements therefore I went with the 5-way.

great project, i already converted it to a oled display i2c

Thank you very much

this is amazing and is it possible to use another display for eg 16x2

nice job , well done, i have one question, whatever the values i am entering, it should save so next time if i switch on the arduino, i should get the saved setting not the default one, thanks

The link provided for the Powerbank shows sold out. What do you recommend for a substitute (Power rating)?

very nice zanel :)

Would you show an example where you can read the temperature by selecting the menu with the menu? Can you help me to run different code from selected menus?

Would the library for this Nokia Screen work for some OLED I2C screen?

awesome information.

Good stuff. Can I offer a suggestion. For fixed menus, you might want to consider using the F macro to save RAM and store in flash memory, e.g. String menuItem1 = F("Contrast"); and so on, otherwise you can start eating up precious RAM in more complex projects just for the menus themselves.

Sir, I really like your video. If you like it, please tell me which part I need to change in order to use the 16x2 lcd. Thank you very much

After having made the selection trough the encoder lets say the menu item needs a count of 650 as set by the encoder, how do you step out of this in the void loop().. to count 650 and display it on the screen? Will appreciate some clarity on this please.

Πολύ καλό! Dear friend, is it possible to use clone's TFT's for your projects? I would like to see much more universal types than Adafruit's which is best but more expensive for the rest of us. Thank you!

Is it possible to use Rotary Encoder for keybord up ,down, enter (nano leonardo)??

Hi Nick, nice menu. I would like to use on ST7920 display. Could you please do a video showing a menu on that type of display?

Hi Nick! I want to add a "home screen" in the menu, but apparently there are only two pages to work with. How can i add more pages?

Thank you for providing good information. I'm trying to make something else out of this. Can you make a function to enter a 4-digit number in the page?

nice work.

Hi could you do a video using one of these screens to display a hall effect sensor activating a relay on a count of detections of the magnet and then turning off after a few more detections please :)

thank you !

Is there any way to get the code to run on a Due, some of the libraries seem uno specific..

thank you for the video

can i ask u that i cant find the ClickEncoder library to work with the code sir, plz reply me ! Thank you !!

Hello! I'm using the same ramps and I displeased you. But I'm not able to map the encoder pins. Would you have any tips?

My menu works but I can't get sensor readings into it, my values are not updating at all. I have heard of state machine and the use of interrupts but I don't see how to implement it with this code.

Hi, can you do the same example with oled i2c display? Please.

Nice.

hi there i haave been trying to migrate this code to one display IC st7789 240x240 pixels but until now not much progress im not using i2c comunication im usin SPI maybe you could make one video with that!! by the waay this video is really nice !! congratulations

Nice video well done good explanation but it would have to be buttons for me

could you do a video of doing a menu like this with the nokia display, rotary encoder and raspberry pi in python or such? really enjoy your videos.

This solution with rotary encoder associated with a push button is an excellent man-machine interface used in many aeronautical equipment. But the TimerOne library is not compatible with the new Arduino Nano Every board which will replace the Nano basic board and other Arduino board of this family (Uno, ...). Is there an alternative library ?

I think that a "state machine" would be much more easy to follow than raw `if-then-else` blocks.

what is " lastMenuItem = menuitem; " mean in this projeact ?

Nice project. I can see value in both buttons and the rotary encoder approach. It sounds like the source isn't up yet so I can only see what was shown in the video. I wonder why not use an array of strings for the menu item text rather than separate variables (menuItem1...)? I am an experienced programmer, but new to Arduino. The Arduino IDE seems primitive in some ways. Maybe I don't fully understand how best to use it. It doesn't seem to have any concept of a Project. If I switch micro-controllers I seem to have to change a bunch of global settings. I feel like there should be some way to save the settings in a project. Also there isn't anything like intellisense (context aware code completion). As someone new to the platform code completion would be very helpful. Do these features exist in the official Arduino IDE? I understand there are alternate IDEs that have have some of these features but I haven't explored them yet. Do you have any recommendations? This might be an interesting topic for a future video: Better Arduino IDE alternatives.

Two Questions Please ? One How large is the Code Compiled ? Two Are the settings completed via menu stored on power down ? On next power up will setting be the same ?

Thanks.

the contrast should be set to values between 52 and 67 (varies from display to display) during setup, otherwise nothing is visible from the menu.

I prefer to use the IR remotes because it keeps to the nostalgia of arduino. Using the rotary encoder is the best for nostalgia tho.

tip for the bread board, if you are getting loose connections the pin rail at the back may need to be push in a bit. This fixed loose connections on my board. Some of these cheap china breadboards are fake. Had some troubles with projects check wiring, parts, power, and the rest, but not breadboard.

Hello, i want to see in the same skech temprature of 2 x DS18b20 like if the menu is not used then switch over to 2x times the temprature shown in the display. i like to here from you Gr T.Tak

very instructive. tkx

Code is not downloadable on the site.. link is not correct.

good but, i need more items with buttons because i dont have any encoders. Thanks :)

Do i have to buy your code to use it for my projects ..??

Very nice project, Thanks for sharing. Is the Nokia 5110 display compatible with 5 volts signal ? Or will it get destryed over some time ? Nils

Hello, how to exit the interrupt cycle to display something other than the menu without the arduino 328p blocks? I do not see that in the code. can you help me ? thank you very much, because this is very informative

nice

How to display menu on nokia 1202 lcd with arduino?

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You sound like Fernando Martinez from 98.9 Emotion aka GTA Vice City LOL

rotary encoders are easier for mounting in projects enclosures.