BlueDisplay

Open source software to turn your smartphone or tablet into an Android remote touch display and voice output for your Arduino and ARM projects.

You can do this using a Bluetooth adapter like HC-05 or an USB OTG cable.

Use the Arduino sketch to create a GUI with graphics, buttons, and sliders on your smartphone or tablet.

Simply connect an HC-05 to the RX/TX pins of your Arduino.

Alternatively, you can connect the Arduino directly to your smartphone using a USB cable and a USB-OTG adapter.

BlueDisplay receives drawing requests from the Arduino via Bluetooth and renders them.

It can also handle voice output requests, which are processed by Android's Text-to-Speech Engine.

GUI callback, touch and sensor events are sent back to Arduino.

No Android programming is required!

In full-screen mode, the options menu is accessed by swiping from the left edge.

Features:

- Open Source.

- C++ Libraries for Arduino and ARM (STM)

- Touch button + slider objects with tone feedback.

- Button and slider callback as well as touch and sensor events are sent back to Arduino.

- Graphic + text output as well as basic printf implementation.

- Voice output with Android TextToSpeech for Android > 5.0 (Lollipop).

- Draw chart from byte or short values. Enables clearing of last drawn chart.

- Play system tones.

- Easy mapping of UTF-8 characters like Ohm, Celsius etc..

- Automatic and manually scaling of display region with handling of insets.

- Up to 115200 Baud using HC-05 modules.

- USB OTG connecion can be used instead of Bluetooth.

- Local display of received and sent commands and data for debug purposes.

- Debug messages as toasts.

- Strings printed with Serial.print() are interpreted as debug messages.

- Hex and ASCII output of received Bluetooth data at log level verbose.

Sources + Examples:

Sources are available at https://github.com/ArminJo/android-blue-display.

Examples are contained in the Arduino BlueDisplay library https://github.com/ArminJo/Arduino-BlueDisplay.

Or use (Ctrl+Shift+I) in the Arduino IDE and search for BlueDisplay.

The library includes examples for easy initializing a HC-05 and for a simple DSO with 0.3 megasamples/sec.

Before using the examples, take care that the BT-module (e.g. the the HC-05 module) is connected to your Android device and is visible in the Bluetooth Settings.

All examples initially use the baudrate of 9600. Especially the SimpleTouchScreenDSO example will run smoother with a baudrate of 115200.

For this, change the example baudrate by deactivating the line `#define HC_05_BAUD_RATE BAUD_9600` and activating `#define HC_05_BAUD_RATE BAUD_115200`.

AND change the BT-Module baudrate e.g. by using the BTModuleProgrammer.ino example.

ARM example code can be found on https://github.com/ArminJo/STMF3-Discovery-Demos.

Version Info https://github.com/ArminJo/android-blue-display#revision-history:

5.0

- Voice output with Android TextToSpeech for Android > 5.0 (Lollipop).

- Text Y and X position is upper left corner of character.

- New functions setCallback() and setFlags() for buttons and sliders.

- Screen orientation flags now also possible in setFlagsAndSize().

- Fixed timestamp DST handling.

- Handling of Android insets.

4.4

- Support für new function disableAutorepeatUntilEndOfTouch().

4.3

- New command FUNCTION_CLEAR_DISPLAY_OPTIONAL to enable resynchronization of slow displays.

- Bluetooth random delay detection.

- Fixed bug for micro-swipe suppressing.

- Added Slider SUBFUNCTION_SLIDER_SET_DEFAULT_COLOR_THRESHOLD.

- Opening options menu by swipe now not restricted on full screen and connected.

- Strings printed with Serial.print() are not interpreted, but stored in the log for debug purposes.

- Fixed bug in FUNCTION_BUTTON_REMOVE.

- Fixed bug for SUBFUNCTION_SLIDER_SET_POSITION.

Hint:

To enable programming of the Arduino while the HC-05 is connected, use a diode to connect Arduino rx and HC-05 tx.