How to use TFT_eSPI library and ESP32 (PROGRAMING TUTORIAL PART 1.) 

You can also check PART2 video : ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AyumJUAFdZ0.html

So timely and excited about this series!

So glad i found this video of yours, it'll help me a lot with my T Display S3 Pro while i wait for my WaveShare 7" display that's on its way. Now I just need to figure out how all the touchscreen features are implemented to use it as an actual screen to control stuff 😅 keep up the amazing work Volos, love your channel and the amazing projects you do 🙌

Thank you for both TFT video's. It helped me greatly to get on my feet using this library. I love your video's so far. I really like how you make these video's. You go slow and explain everything very well. Most other content makers go too fast. And they tend to jump over critical information. So thank you, thank you, thank you. ❤

Thanks for sharing this. The fact that you provide this for free is even more awesome. I just subscribed to your channel. Please share more and thanks again!

I liked it too much! I've always seen your TTGO projects and now I can learn from you! It's fantastic! Thanks.

Nice!!! Putting this into practice after seeing the video. Great that you are taking time to teach us the basics. Thank you.

That is the exact Video I need, because I just ordered my own boards

Thank you for this series

Very Informative. You put alot of important information into your videos, that others just assume us newbies know. Thank You for your time.

I am new to these ESP32s...Your teaching style fits my learning style well!!! This has been the most comprehensive tutorial I have watched so far!! Thank you!!

Excellent explanations at an understandable speed. Very Well done

Thanks, very clear and perfect for a beginner as I am. Cheers from France

Thank you so much! It is the best class about TFT display, that I saw on youtube. You are gold mate!

Just what I was looking for!

Excellent video for my students starting off using a TFT eSPI display!

This was a great tutorial! Thank you

Thank you. I've learned a lot. You are a good instructor 😊

I Watched whole video. Great work, thankyou.

Good stuff. Nice clear explanations.

Perfect explanation, the best.

Amazing! Subscribed immediately :)

Thank you !!, I liked it too much! I've always seen your TTGO projects and now I can learn from you! And.. your English is perfect!. Thanks.

Excellent video for those of us starting off using a TFT eSPI display! By the way, the next time you are looking for "Dark Blue" color, use the "Navy" (TFT_NAVY) color. That is "Dark Blue". Always look forward to your videos!

This is amazing man! Thanks! Early Christmas present!!!

Such a fantastic video, thank you! Please don’t be her in yourself about your English! You are very easy to understand and are giving all of us the gift of your experience!

this vidéo was really helpfull, thank you

Perfect!!! Well done!!

Excellent ,it might be basic stuff as you say but for us learning its extremely helpfull Your Videos are wonderfull thank you so much

Wonderfull instruction, thank you.

Great vid tutorial. Thanks.

Thank you for this. Excellentm

Very nice! Thank YOU!

Really helpful video.

Ottimo 1 sei un grande

Sehr gut gemacht , danke Werner

Hi! My name is Cezar, from Rio de Janeiro - Brazil. Congratulations by the series! I hope you continue this work! You are the best channel talking about TTGO. I always follow your videos. As soon as possible, I'll get you some coffee. You've deserved it for a long time. Hugs.

Thank you sir for this video .The world is a wonderful place because of people like you

I love your videos, they are very helpfull with My college project. Your English is very good and relaxing tho.

Amazing, thanks!

Ops Hit wrong button... As I was saying I will being using this for both myself and my grandson to get him interested in building his own games instead of buying them. Thanks again for your presentation, This was great for this 75 yr old guy.

Great video, helping me to use this display and ESP32

Yes I watched the entire video THANKS

I am very much looking forward to these tutorial videos as I started last year programming ESP32's and I am trying to make a GPS speed meter which displays the maximum speed a RC car has reached before you press a button to reset it and I had all kinds of problems with the display and fonts, The font size I wanted to use didn't have the characters I needed so in the end I stopped working on it but I hope to learn enough from your tutorial to start it back up again.

Complimenti per la semplicità con qui spieghi. Grazie

Very well explained

I spend too much time on fonts and colours too, you are not alone. By the way your English is fine, thank you

Well done! Many thanks!

very helpfull thank u sir!

Very good video.

Excellent. More pls :)

Yes - definitely watched till the end. As a result, you got a new subscriber! Your English is fine and because you speak at that pace, it's very clear. I share your passion for displays, especially small ones and can't wait for your next video's. As a challenge - could you eventually have a tutorial to display video at 24 fps ??

Thank You Very Much, I will be watching all of your videos to the end. I cant get your Alien game to work, Spent many hours researching Stray Errors. lots of suggestions but none worked. Lilygo S3 Arduino 2.0.4.

Nice project

thank you for this tutorial, i ordered one of these and aim to use it for the bargraphs in my ghostbusters gun.

muito bom mano vei...

Thank you, this was very informative, as a very beginner. And don't worry about your English it will improve as you make more tutorials. Thanks again

Man your gauges look so good, I only managed to get one display working on my Arduino Uno using the code from someone else but the guy didn't update the code and it was quite a long time ago for him to make the project so the questions I asked him about how he created the graphics he couldn't give me any useful answers. Because of that I had to figure it all out myself by changing one value at a time, uploading the sketch and then see what happens and that over and over again until I almost had it working on my display which is smaller so I had to change everything manually, that took a long time and it's still not exactly as I need it to be and I can't figure that part out because I don't know what I'm doing when it comes to displays and coding graphics is not my strongest point so whenever I can use something from someone else who already knows how it works I don't see the need to invent the wheel again so to speak right? Saves a lot of time when it works the right way first time and the code is clear to understand and has the necessary comments in the right place so I can easily see what part of the code does what and what I need to change to make it work for my hardware which is especially important when the hardware isn't exactly the same as the person sharing the project online. In my case I thought I could easily change the code because the guy sharing it added in the comments that using his code on a different display smaller or bigger could be done simply by scaling but he didn't explain what I needed to change and where to make that scaling happen and because I don't know what I'm doing I couldn't get that figured out so I just changed everything manually to get the graphics to fit on my display, can you imagine the process I had to do? That was not a lot of fun I can tell you that much. So I really hope that your code is easier for me to understand and I bought the exact same model board as you showed in your latest video using your link, that way I know there's no difference at all in the hardware which should make it much easier for me to follow along with you. Thanks for sharing this here on RU-vid, I appreciate it very much.

Thank you.

Thank you for this video:-). You should do more 'basic Staff' videos:-), It is helpful more than you know.

Hi, Great video man. Will this library work with st7735 display? I have tried that display with arduino nano to build a menu system using adafruit libraries, but the display seems to be very slow to update, but the same logic works with the 0.96" i2c oled ssd1306 display without any lag and flickering. Do you know why? Is the library causing the problem or the st7735 display?

Thank you

Have you found how to make a multiline text or word wrap with TFT_eSPI? I want to set a large text that will fill in the screen or a textbox.

I get no display functions as soon as I activate the display functions and vice versa. Each work on the same board without issues, individually. But as soon as I start the server, the display dies. I believe server and display driver have conflicts. Did you test this with wifi AND display at the same time?

Great video! But Ive faced a problem that my numbers overlap one on top of each other. As I saw in your video, u didn’t “refresh” the screen. (I use TFT on IL9341 (240x320), if it matters) Any suggestions on that?

excellent video very well explained a question you could explain with configuring the user.setup.h file for an esp32 thank you ..!

A suggestion for a useful project would be a colour picker based on the st7789, st7735, Ili9341 displays, some colours and combinations look great while others look very poor, to generate the RGB 565 code on the actual display would be great. Many thanks.

Hi, is this tutorial valid for the new T-Display S3 AMOLED? Thanks

A question: how to implement accented characters (ì, ì, è, ò, ù) and relative capitalization, with the TFT_eSPI library? I'm Italian and I need these characters. It prints everything for me but not those. Thank you

Your tutorials are great. Can you do one on ttgo data retrieval and displaying the data on screen

Pretty good. Where can i find a list of all your projects? Reinhard

Thank you! Very helpful. Is there a way to draw text in landscape style (rotated 90 degrees)?

Hey, Volos! Which type of image is used in this board? The array have only 1 byte per position, so, it's not a RGB565, I suppose.

can use esp8266 ?

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Can font 7, the seven segment numbers be any larger or are they just one size?

My TTGO has arrived and the factory example works on powerup but when I tried a basic sketch everything loads fine without any errors but the display remains blank. After some searching there is mention of setting up the display in user_setup.h. Did you have to do this?

Great work, many thanks, please switch off the mouse click noise.

ultra interesting i buy lilygo display with SD card but impossible to use it , if you have time it could be very cool to get help. I m also interesting to use this TTGO with an external SD card to display a video.

It's not working. I don't know why. Do you have an ESP32 dev + 135x240 1.14 tft lcd connection diagram? 1.14tft lcd Where should I connect to the far right "BLK"?

i think world needs a library that can program other devices on the fly, like program ttgo to be serial programmer and simplified way of wordlist to program another device. thatll be usefull.... hope so eone writes that before i find time to start trying ;p

Nice video ! Nice explanations. What about if you would like to paint one part of the screen in one color, and the other part in other color ? Thanks for everything.

HI How can to write whith Greek leters

Can someone Help me? I can not upload sketches to my TTGO. Concerning data given by the manufacturer, I need a CP2104 diver. I installed the CP210x drivers and it still do not work.

Your videos have been VERY helpful in understanding how to use my ESP32 and TFT display... I'm struggling to find any documentation on the functions in the TFT_eSPI library and their parameters. Have you found anything which lists all of the functions in library?

can we install Android auto on esp32?

Excellent Tutorial and Starting point, I need to make several projects using this TTGO T Display board Thanks .. You're busy or missed this (below) so I have answered my own questions. LoL I hope they are right but I'm a rank novice at this : 1.) Why do you seem to always select the Board type for these TTGO T Display board projects as "TTGO LoRa 32-OLED" when this is not and OLED is it? and its definitely not the LoRa radio version of the TTGO dev board either as far as I can tell.. Ans: the internal Espressif ESP chip is the same on the LoRa boards so it's a good fit for the TTGO T-Display ( standard) dev module. 2.) is that Board type selection valid for all TTGO Display types, Ans: No, its definitely not. The newer TTGO T-Display S3 series and OMOLED boards as well as the T-QT all need a fifferent Board type selection. I am not sure not believe these all need Type: "ESP32 S3 Dev Kit" or sometrhing similar. One thing I found out is you can't expect the Board type name to be the same in the Arduino IDE as it is called in the PlatformIO IDE, they are slightly different and if your board type selection is wrong or some of the parameters under it don't match the code may not compile without a lot of warnings and errors. 3.) How would you know what Board type to use for other types of display dev boards with different types of displays? is this Board to Board Part Name or Number type cross-reference info located some where in a table in English? Perhaps I should just Google it .. and like everything else .. the answer would likely appear.. Sorry I'm so lazy.. 😝 Ans: I couldn't find a way other than to ask the mfr's tech support team,, ( or look here in the YT videos Danko is making. I'm not sure that is his 1st name but suspect it is because that is the name of his C:\Users subdirectory. 😂😂

At the link I can select CH304K 4MB, CH304K 16MB,, CH9102F 16MB or CP2104 4MB. Which is the best for your projects (and in general)? Thanks!

Please make tutorial for lvgl

Good introduction, but....Please speak up a bit, the sound in this video was to low.

Can you show how to use sprite?

Hi, great video, looking forward to more esp32 projects, The link to the Color picker is incorrect, the “b” is missing off the beginning of the link.

Can you change the brightness of the screen to make it Less bright. Perhaps a black background and make font numbers less bright? I want to make clock that is not so bright at night in dark room. ? Thank you.

Great, I have a question I would like to ask, how can I combine multiple .c files with converted hexadecimal digits into one .h file, your animation is more than 100 frames, one by one is a waste of time, if you Please answer me if you can see it. Many thanks!

Great video! For me, if I only put color on the text, and no background color for the counter. It actually messes up the counting. 0. 8, 88. Very strange. I just put the background as black.

Sir, Do you have wiring diagram for ESP32 and TFT ILI9341?. I have ESP32 that doesn't have built-in TFT. I'm also using TFT_eSPI library. I able to run sample sketch like TFT_Clock and some sketch that displays image from SD card. (very slow) Now I have problem with touch function. I able to run Calibrate sketch and 4 corners touch test run without any problem. But when I run On_Off_button, it doesn't response at all. This is how I wire the connection between tft and esp32 wroom TFT_MISO TOUCH_DO SD_MISO pin 19 TFT_MOSI TOUCH_DIN SD_MOSI pin 23 TFT_SCK TOUCH_CLK pin 18 TFT_DC pin 2 TFT_RST pin 4 TFT_CS 15 SD_CS 5 TOUCH_CS 21 I also want to use TOUCH_CS on pin other than 21 because I found out that pin 21 and 22 are for I2C. I might add other module in the future that use i2c. This will cause conflict between TFT and I2C. Which ESP32 pin is good for TOUCH_CS?

Everything seemed to work. I do indeed manager to upload, etc BUT, I see nothing on the screen. Serial.print("hello"); etc all work - so I know I have the right device. The screen did come on when I FIRST powered it up. It is now stuck black since uploading what I learned here. Help Please!

color picker url is wrong. correct it in your description, because there are no links allowed in user comment

I started here since it was titled PART 1 - therefore I did not follow the step from the other video and did not edit User_Setup_Select.h - I think either the comments here or the video would be vastly improved if this was mentioned

is there anywhere a documentation as to how many arguments a function has and what they do? all i see is: ... drawCircle KEYWORD2 drawCircleHelper KEYWORD2 fillCircle KEYWORD2 fillCircleHelper KEYWORD2 drawEllipse KEYWORD2 fillEllipse KEYWORD2 drawTriangle KEYWORD2 fillTriangle KEYWORD2 ... that doesnt help at all