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TM1650 Seven-Segment Display~

This feature is not included in precompiled binaries

When compiling your build add the following to user_config_override.h: 

#ifndef USE_I2C
#define USE_I2C
#endif

#ifndef USE_DISPLAY
#define USE_DISPLAY
#endif
#ifndef USE_DISPLAY_MODES1TO5
#define USE_DISPLAY_MODES1TO5
#endif
#ifndef USE_DISPLAY_TM1650
#define USE_DISPLAY_TM1650
#endif

// ONLY XY-Clock
#ifndef USE_RTC_CHIPS 
#define USE_RTC_CHIPS
#endif
#ifndef USE_DS3231
#define USE_DS3231
#endif

TM1650 - XY-Clock TM1650 - 303WiFiLC01
TM1650 - XY-Clock          TM1650 - 303WiFiLC01       

The TM1650 display modules are usually found in "cheap" Wifi LED clock. They manage 7-segment LED displays (~ 27 mm high) with 4 digits. They use two wire I2C protocol to communicate with MCU such as ESP8266/ESP32/Arduino etc.,

Features~

The Tasmota support for these modules can --

  • display Numbers and Floats with control over position and leading zeros.
  • display basic Text, for example, sending the text 22.5^ will display:
    22.5d
  • display Raw segments.
  • display Level, like a bar graph
  • display Scrolling text
  • display a Clock in 12 hr and 24 hr format
  • set Brightness (8 levels) and Clear the display.

Configuration~

Wiring~

The TM1650 module needs to be connected to I2C GPIO pins and a 3.3V-5V power supply.

TM1650 ESP based module
SCL GPIOx
SDA GPIOy
VCC 3.3V (e.g., ESP-01) or 5V (e.g., Wemos D1 Mini)
GND GND

Tasmota Settings~

In Tasmota's Configuration -> Configure Module page, assign:

For TM1650

  1. GPIOx to I2C SCL
  2. GPIOy to I2C SDA


For example, with XY-Clock hardware, the module configuration would look like the following:

TM1650 - XY-Clock
TM1650

Initial Setup~

The power toggle button in webUI turns the display on or off. However, if there are additional relays defined, resulting in multiple power toggle buttons in WebUI, display power will create and map to the last button. Thus, it is necessary to ensure that relays are numbered from 1, otherwise a conflict will occur with the display power.

In the console, turn ON the display with the command Power 1.

DisplayModel~

Once the GPIO configuration is saved and the ESP8266 / ESP32 module restarts, set the Display Model to 20 using the command:

DisplayModel 20

DisplayType~

The 6-digit TM1637 has 2 known variants with different hardware wiring for the digit ordering.
You can switch between these two variants with the following commands:

DisplayType 0 - Use this for the Type 0 variant XY-Clock, with wiring is equal to datasheet
DisplayType 2 - Use this for the Type 2 variant 303WifiLC01, with a different wiring

After the ESP8266/ESP32 module restarts again, the display module is ready to accept commands.

DisplayModes~

DisplayModes 0..3 are supported. The firmware default is DisplayMode 1.

To use the Seven-Segment specific Display- commands described below, set the DisplayMode to 0 with:

DisplayMode 0

DisplayDimmer~

The brightness of the display can be set using the DisplayDimmer command.

DisplayDimmer 0..100 maps the brightness value to 8 steps from 0..7

For a minimum brightness, make sure this value is at least about 13

7-Segment specific Commands~

The Display- commands listed below can be used from the Tasmota web-console, MQTT, and from Tasmota Rules

Commands and Usage~

Console/MQTT Commands Description values
DisplayClear Clears the display
DisplayNumber Clears and then displays number without decimal. command e.g., "DisplayNumber 1234".
Control position, leading zeros, and length.
position can be 0 (left-most) to NUM_DIGITS-1 (right-most),
leading zeros can be 1 or 0 (default),
length can be 1 to NUM_DIGITS (4 or 6).
Command example: DisplayNumber 12, 1, 1, 3 This will display:
012		 num [, position[, leading_zeros[, length]]]
DisplayNumberNC Display integer number as above, but without clearing first. e.g., "DisplayNumberNC 1234". Usage is same as above. same as above
DisplayFloat Clears and then displays float (with decimal point) command e.g., "DisplayFloat 12.34".
Control position, precision, and length.
position can be 0 (left-most) to NUM_DIGITS-1 (right-most),
precision can be 0 to NUM_DIGITS (default),
length can be 1 to NUM_DIGITS (4 or 6).
Command example: DisplayFloat 2.48, 1, 1, 2 This will display:
2.5		 num[, position[, precision[, length]]]
DisplayFloatNC Displays float (with decimal point) as above, but without clearing first. command e.g., "DisplayFloatNC 12.34" same as above
DisplayRaw Takes up to NUM_DIGITS comma-separated integers (0-255) and displays raw segments.
Each number represents a 7-segment digit. Each 8-bit number represents individual segments of a digit.
Segment a=1, b=2, c=4, d=8, e=16, f=32, g=64 and h (decimal point)=128.
To turn on all segments, the number would be 1+2+4+8+16+32+64+128 = 255
For example, the command DisplayRaw 0, 2, 255, 255 would display:
8.8.		 position, length, num1 [, num2[, num3[, num4[, ...up to NUM_DIGITS numbers]]...]
DisplayText Clears and then displays basic text. Command e.g., DisplayText a.b12
Control length and position of the displayed text.
length can be 1 to NUM_DIGITS ,
position can be 0 (left-most) to NUM_DIGITS-1 (right-most)

A caret(^) symbol in the text input is displayed as the degrees(°) symbol. This is useful for displaying Temperature (or angle)!
For example, the command DisplayText 22.5^ will display:
22.5d		 text[, position[, length]]
DisplayTextNC Displays text without first clearing the display. Usage is same as above. same as above
DisplayScrollText Displays scrolling text, up to 50 characters.
If num_iterations is not specified, it scrolls indefinitely, until another Display- command is issued. Optionally, specifying num_iterations causes the scrolling to stop after the specified number of iterations.
Command examples:
DisplayScrollText tasmota is awesome -- causes indefinite scrolling
DisplayScrollText tasmota is awesome, 5 -- causes scrolling to stop after 5 iterations		 text [, num_iterations]
DisplayScrollDelay Sets the speed of text scroll. Smaller delay = faster scrolling. 0 to 15
DisplayLevel Display a horizontal bar graph. Command e.g., DisplayLevel 50 will display:

 0 to 100
DisplayClock Displays a clock.
DisplayClock 1 displays a clock in 12-hour format.
DisplayClock 2 displays a clock in 24-hour format.
DisplayClock 0 turns off the clock and clears the display		 1 or 2 or 0

Usage in Rules~

All the above commands can be used in Tasmota Rules, as usual.

For example, a simple digital thermometer can be implemented by connecting a DHT22 Temperature-Humidity Sensor and a TM1650 to a Wemos D1 Mini, and writing a Rule like the following:

Rule1
ON Tele-AM2301#Temperature DO DisplayText %value%^ ENDON